In today’s fast-paced industries, maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of engineers, technicians, and managers is essential for success. This article explores the application of the Action Preventing Action (APA) tool within the PRIZ Innovation Platform to analyze workplace dynamics and identify barriers to optimal performance. By systematically addressing these barriers, the APA tool offers actionable insights and innovative solutions, ensuring teams work faster, smarter, and with greater precision. Discover how leveraging this approach can transform staff productivity and elevate organizational outcomes. Production Yield Indicates the Health of Manufacturing Production yield is one of the main indicators of manufacturing health. Would…

The evolution of technical systems is governed by objective laws. This means that a modern cell phone, for example, looks and operates as it does not because of the creativity of the designer. Of course, Jony Ive is extremely talented and his work changed our world, he and his team didn’t have any other options but to create the iPhone the way they did. In this post, we will explain how can we predict the cellphone future with 9 Windows. The direction of system evolution The main direction of evolution is to satisfy customer needs. So, what is the main…

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…