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Paper illustration for Learning Review.
Operations
Learning Review
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Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Purposedifferent
After a project phase with mixed results, the method makes learning from the individual case reusable. It connects events, decisions, and systemic conditions into robust insights.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.When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood.When a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly.
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MediumHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-4 h30-60 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
3-102-83-122-8
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WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Learning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement ActionsContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement ActionsContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas
Tagsno overlap
LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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