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Criterion
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of the Morphological Analysis working structure.
Innovation
Morphological 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 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.When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.For a search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-4 h60-120 min20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-82-83-152-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept IdeasROAM Board, Owner ListMorphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
IdeationInnovationCreativity
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