The term Kaizen originated from Japan. The meaning of the word Kaizen is “change for the better.” Over time, Kaizen became one of the leading business philosophies and converted into a competitive strategy – continuous improvement.
Both words are critical
For a better chance to succeed with your business, you should implement Kaizen as a way of life.
PRIZ Innovator helps organizations to implement and adopt Kaizen. All Creative thinking tools that the Innovator offers are driving our thinking in a direction of better organizational performance. As we all know, time is the most expensive commodity.
PRIZ Innovator is built to save time spent on innovations and improvements in an organization.
As mentioned above, PRIZ Innovator comes with a set of creative thinking tool. These tools help us in several different ways, and many time compliment each other. All of them without exception, contribute to a faster innovation processes.
A large number of available options to choose from is a very typical situation. The question is, how to make the right choice or at least rank these options? This process can be challenging and, at times, very frustrating. In extreme situations, people simply give up and pretty much make random choices.
Round Robin Ranking (RRR) helps in saving time and making the right choice. The main concept of the tool is that we can reasonably choose one out of two options. However, we are unable to compare more than two options. Round Robin Ranking will guide you through pairs of options, calculate and sort the options according to the scores.
More detail on this tool is described in our blog Roun Robin Ranking (RRR) is a practical tool
Urgency – Importance Matrix by Eisenhauer is a well-known instrument for task priority management. The main question left is how to decide what is urgent and that important? For fast and effective prioritization, use
Urgency – Importance Matrix (UIM) tool gives a clear answer to this question and offers a fast and simple process for prioritization.
PRIZ Innovator UIM tool is based on clear concepts:
More details on the UIM tool described in our blog How to prioritize tasks with Urgency – Importance Matrix in PRIZ Guru Platform
Some features that requested improvement need to be analyzed. In order to achieve fast and effective improvement, use Cause and Effect Chain Analysis is an excellent tool for root cause definition and fast solutions creation. The details of the tool described in our blog A Root Cause Analysis Using PRIZ Innovation Platform
Brainstorming is a very popular instrument for generating ideas, troubleshooting, and improvements. In the standard approach, during brainstorming sessions, a group generates ideas. Normally, it takes a long time to validate all of them. To save time and be more effective, we should use the Effective Brainstorming (EBS) tool.
The details described in our blog Effective BrainStorming (EBS)
Your business needs to improve customer satisfaction, who doesn’t? For this non-trivial task, use Action Preventing Action (APA) novel creative thinking tool described in What does a customer needs? , Take a customer’s function away to satisfy the customer and Happy new customer! Ensure customer satisfaction.
Any change, and specifically, improvement, is a solution to some problem. Generate better solutions faster with the Inventive Principles tool. The details described in our blog Problem Solving Using 40 Inventive Principles. An example fined here: Trapshooting is bad for environment – here is our problem solution…
PRIZ Innovator provides continuous improvement flow: problem analysis – ideas generation – innovations implementation – new projects generation.
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