CRAFITTI CONSULTING (www.crafitti.com) offers two-days of innovation ignition workshops on our world-class frameworks developed and practiced to solve business and technical problems in large global organizations. These comprehensive frameworks are offered first time in India in workshop settings.

Workshop 1: Day 1: 26th September 2008
LEAN INVENTIVE SYSTEMS THINKING (LIST) – A framework for transformation through innovation ignition
Workshop 2: Day 2: 27th September 2008
Advanced Patent Analysis using TRIZ and Other Techniques

• Are you, your team, your organization or your business

o Impacted by rapid increase in Globalization?
o Impacted by explosive increase in complexity?
o Overwhelmed by continuous pressure to think out of box?
o Face decision paralysis due to information de-coherence?
o Feeling the heat of unknown competitors doing unprecedented things to eat away your business?
o Trying to make sense of Patents and underlying value in Patents?

If most of your answers are YES, then these workshops will help you find answers.

• Do you think
o “Decision Making” is your Team’s Strength?
o “Problem Solving” and “Innovation” is your Team’s Strength?
o Your team doesn’t get into Crisis at all? Avoiding crisis is your strength?
o You know the value that you are creating or delivering to your customer?
o You are sufficiently leveraging Patent information openly available to build your business and technology?

If most of your answers are NO, then these workshops will help you find answers.
Let’s craft Innovation together!

Workshop 1: Day 1: 26th September 2008
LEAN INVENTIVE SYSTEMS THINKING (LIST) – A framework for transformation through innovation ignition
The globe is being re-engineered rapidly. Our businesses of today are not what they used to be even a decade back. Our existing methods of thinking – based on analytic and logical methods developed over last couple of centuries are suddenly looking in-effective in the new world of increasing globalization, increasing complexity and unprecedented pace. The problem solver is in a complex web of decision dependencies and fuzzy end of decision complexity. This workshop gives a comprehensive exposition to Crafitti’s Lean Inventive Systems Thinking (LIST) framework developed after successful experimentation in multiple domains. This is a potent framework for collective problem solving using three key thinking dimensions – these are Lean Thinking, Inventive or Design thinking and Systems Thinking. It has already proved its worth in designing new products and services, improving overall productivity, reducing cycle time, designing relevant solutions needed by customers and minimizing stress on the employees. Some of these cases will be shared in the workshop.

The workshop will provide exposure to some of the known LIST techniques such as
• Design Structure Matrix (DSM),
• Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP),
• Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ),
• Lean Product Development – Set-based concurrent engineering (SBCE),
• Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

Delegates will also be exposed to some of the new techniques developed by us, such as
• System Complexity Estimator (SCE),
• System Change Impact Model (SCIM),
• Project Cacophony,
• Decision Dependency Matrices (DDM’s)

Workshop 2: Day 2: 27th September 2008
Advanced Patent Analysis using TRIZ and Other Techniques
Patents are the most comprehensive source of information and knowledge. In the rapidly globalizing world of continuous change and cutthroat competition, every enterprise searches for competitive advantage. Patent information although realized by many as highly informative are not really tapped by enterprises at large, simply as the understanding of patents as a source of information and trigger for inventing the next are still in infancy. Although there are many open tools and databases to make patent data visualization, there doesn’t seem to be enough awareness of using patents for inventing next!
Altshuller, a Russian navy patent officer after Second World War, started a systematic study of patents – his aim was to find out what makes a successful invention. Can there be an algorithm for inventing? His search led him to develop a unique methodology called Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (acronym TRIZ in Russian). In the process he also developed a methodology to analyze and study patents.
Crafitti Consulting has developed on the TRIZ way of doing patent analysis and reinforced it with other techniques to build a comprehensive framework for Patent analysis. For the first time this framework is offered in India.

The delegates will be exposed to
• Understanding the level of an invention and a patent
• Finding out the key contradictions the invention is solving
• Looking at the claims hierarchy of the patent
• Function Diagrams of a patent/invention
• Pruning or Trimming as a means of inventing
• System Complexity Estimation

These techniques will help in
• Finding Technological Alternatives to a Patent
• Writing Future-proof claims of a Patent
• Understanding the evolution of an invention compared to prior art
• Finding white space in a field to leverage

To register, send us an email at info@crafitti.com. Registration info can be found here.