The Idea Machine (TIM) Process
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Decision Criteria of Sponsoring Stakeholders
- Identify all the explicit Decision Criteria by which Sponsoring Stakeholder will select from the generated ideas.
- These decision criteria can be based on:
- Cart
- Time
- Resources
- Others
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Problem Modeling or Elements
- Next step is to identify all the Problem Elements
- Problem Elements are
- Causes or
- Dimensions of a problem
- Since we are dealing with complex, multi-dimensional problem, it crucial to get a complete understanding of the reason for existence of
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Idea Generation
- Now Ideas are generated against each Problem Element
- The Idea Generation can be done as a group or individual exercise
- Brainstorming is then done, supported by
- Ideas from Concepts generated by
- specialized software
- Internet search
- Using
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Stakeholders
- Identify All the Stakeholders that influence the problem or could be impacted by any solution
- Stakeholders are of two types
- Sponsoring Stakeholder – i.e. one thatis sponsoring the problem Solving Exercise and
- Non-Sponsoring Stakeholders –i.e. those that not part of the sponsoring Stakeh
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Problem Statement or Goal
- State the Problem or Goal in one sentence
- Here we are concerned with complex, unstructured problem and examples are:
- Reduce Corruption
- Reduce Court Delays
- Control Terrorism in XYZ area
- Increase market share in
an innovative man
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TheIdea Machine Process
- Input
- Problem Statement
- Stakeholder Identification
- Decision Criteria for Sponsoring Stakeholder
- Problem Modeling and Element Identification
- Process
- Generating Raw Ideas for each Problem Elements
- Combining parts of Raw Ideas to get
- Output
- Selecting Ideas based on pre-determined Decision Criteria
- Developing Action Plan to implement Selected
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Idea Selection
- From all the ideas
generated during the this
exercise, a selection is made to
get Selected Ideas
- This selection is done
using the
pre-determine
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Action Plan
- To implement the Selected
Idea an Action Plan is
implemented answering:
- Who will implement?
- What will be implemented?
- Where it will be implemented?
- When it will be implemented and
- How it will be
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Resources/ Techniques
- The following 5M + 2S
Resource/Technique will be
necessary for implementation
- Men
- Money
- Materials
- Machines
- Methods
- Systems and
- Strategy