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Criterion
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Purposedifferent
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 two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.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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Timedifferent
1-4 h1-4 Wochen45-90 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-81-62-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas
Tagsno overlap
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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