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Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Purposedifferent
A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.
Complexitysame
HighHigh
Timedifferent
2-6 h1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention IdeasContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts
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Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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