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Tasks prioritization is a key instrument for making your work more effective. If you want to achieve more with less, and if you want to waste less time for output and instead be outcome-oriented, then task prioritization is mandatory. Tasks prioritization is a typical management tool, but it is useful for managers, engineers, and technicians because it tool helps to manage your personal activity, improves the efficiency of your work, increases impact, and evidently helps your promotion. In this article, we want to concentrate on how to define urgency and importance correctly. Urgency – Importance Matrix Urgency – Importance Matrix is…

It is not a secret for anyone that there is an ongoing global pandemic these days. Covid-19 (or how most people call it, coronavirus) is spreading fast and kills many. Pretty much the entire world now tries to find a solution for it and some countries are claiming that they already did, or at least found a way to contain and control the virus. Of course, we are not medical or biology professionals by any stretch of the imagination, but everyone is aware of how catastrophic this pandemic is for the global economy and the effect it has on everyone’s…

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…