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Incremental Innovation Tools
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Evaluate - and Solve - Your Problem Through 9 Windows
One common roadblock to innovation is the inability to define the problem that needs to be solved - real situations can be complex. Nine windows, or the system operator, can help cut through the complexity so that the problem becomes clear.
Improve Product Design: Watch What End Users Do
The beginning of any design and development project should include activities aimed at a deep understanding of user behavior. Planning a design that facilitates likely user tasks will succeed in minimizing frustration and reducing user abandonment.
Minimize Uncertainty with Robust Decisions
Making a robust decision early in the innovation process is essential to transform the innovation into successful actions. First, find the alternative that is the least sensitive to noise (uncertainty) and then bring the design to its performance target.
Six Sigma and Innovation: Natural Partners from the Start
Combining innovation and Six Sigma is just the beginning of the story. Six Sigma also guides the innovation forward through implementation as facts and measures drive concept selection, deployment planning, performance optimization and control.
Systematic Innovation's Successes in Healthcare
Systematic innovation is being applied to many industries with great results. Two healthcare case studies address the wide fields of applicability for strategic and systematic innovation
What Not To Do: Ten Ways to Inhibit Innovation
Directors, vice presidents and managers have much more power than they realize. They can patiently create a climate of creativity or they can crush it with subtle comments and gestures. Their actions send powerful signals.
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