Anything we do is a kind of project. Indeed, even a simple thing as shopping is a project because we do it to solve a problem and to make changes in some parameters. All projects have similar traits. Let’s examine engineering projects. Even though we have already discussed the aspects related to projects and tasks in our blog Project’s tasks management with PRIZ Innovation Platform, we decided to raise the question of the project and tasks again because it is not trivial at all, especially when we talk about innovation projects. Types of projects In general, one can think of…

Brainstorming is one of the most popular creative instruments for problem-solving. The simplest method is unstructured brainstorming. The process is easy. We collect different ideas (tasks) for validation. The more the number of ideas, the more the probability of getting the correct or at least the most effective solution. People believe that if they generate a huge number of ideas, they will be able to find the solution to the problem.  Generally speaking, it is correct. However, the question is how to choose the right idea or task. What is the problem with brainstorming as we know it? Even though…

This paper is dedicated to the tasks management process. It is well known, that any problem-solving project aims to eliminate or at least decline a disadvantage. There is a huge number of disadvantages, or how some people may call it visible symptoms. For instance: High cost of a product, Low productivity of production line, Insufficient reliability of a device, Floods causing destruction, Power glitches resulting in damage to the equipment and so on. One can continue the list of potential disadvantages of any situation. And every disadvantage is going to be something different and can lead to different problems. However,…

In today’s economy, any business depends on customer satisfaction. There are many ways to investigate what customer wants, and many companies doing it successfully. In this article, we propose an innovative approach for market research and for a better understanding of customer needs. We have already started the discussion of the customer needs in our previous blogs: What does a customer need? and Take a customer’s function away to satisfy the customer. Our main concept of customer needs is as follows: A customer does not like to do what he does. Therefore preventing the customer from his current activity is…

As we mentioned in our previous blog “What does a customer need?”: The best product or service is something that prevents a customer from his current activity. The most important questions are: What is your customer doing? Why is he doing this? To answer these questions and the analysis of the data will bring us to a clear definition of our customer needs. Since this investigation is problem-solving, creative thinking tools should be used. Let’s describe as an example of how Functional Modeling (one of the effective creative thinking tools) helps us to define customer needs. Below briefly listed the…

We already discussed customer needs aspects in our blogs: Happy New Customer! Ensure customer satisfaction! and Take a customer’s function away to satisfy the customer. The satisfaction of customer needs is a crucial driver of technology development. More than that, our civilization evolution depends on the satisfaction of a customer. Why is it crucial? Because the only product or service that customer accepts and is ready to pay for gets a privilege for existence. Hence, everything is in the hands of the customers and depends on the customers’ needs. If you want your business to be successful, make sure your…

PRIZ Guru (https://www.priz.guru/ ) is built to proliferate an innovation and problem-solving process, to publish explanations of how the problem-solving process works, describe the strength of creative thinking tools and reinforce it with examples. Especially, one of the fundamental problems is to answer the question: “Which innovation should I work on?”, “What kind of new idea should be created?” First, let’s ask ourselves, what is innovation? There are many articles that one can find about it; but, the answer is really simple. Innovation is there to solve somebody’s problem. Or, I want to reinforce it by: It is not an…

People want fast and easy results without effort, but they often fail to realize that, many times, this method is more costly and the results are not as satisfactory as they could be. It is about problem solving tools. “You never saw such a commotion up and down a house, in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger undertook to do a job.” – this is from “Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K. Jerome, chapter “Uncle Podger hangs a picture”. You can enjoy reading the famous book again and again, but this particular chapter exactly corresponds to…

The paper refers to problem solving using the creative thinking tool 40 Inventive principles. Trapshooting or clay-pigeon shooting was invented in England at the end of the 18th century. The drive of the game was to improve hunters shooting skills. Nowadays, trapshooting is a very popular sport with world championships and Olympic events. How does trapshooting work? Targets are launched into the air with a special machine at varying angles and speeds initially unknown to the shooter. The shooter fires at the targets with a shotgun and the score depends on the hit count given specific rules. We are not…