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The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)

I have written few blogs using concepts of TRIZ, so let me explain what is TRIZ? It is a problem solving methodology, more below from my earlier post at other place. How do we look and try to solve our problems? Generally, it is observed that everyone thinks in his circle of intellectual dominance (emotional, intellectual, social or technical). But when our interest is to find out solution for any problem relating to any particular Read more…

By KRD Pravin, ago

Ideate – Save the sinking ship

Prof Mankad said in our class ‘there seems to be possibility of double dip’ while teaching us macroeconomics. I have written on this in my blog at times. At times question comes in mind, why not using concepts of one field to the other the way we do it in TRIZ (The theory of inventive problem solving). I recalled a news shown on NDTV (it was shown in 2008 somewhere in Aug-Nov). I remember this Read more…

By KRD Pravin, ago

Lost in translation

I read some status messages on gtalk and other places – ‘lost in translation’. It is good that people get caught only in translation; there are chances when someone can be lost in words. Take an example – when I write business to Buddha, meaning is not limited to ‘business to Buddha’. Here Buddha relates to humanity, to the messages of the masters (prophets) and how message of the masters are applicable to businesses e.g. Read more…

By KRD Pravin, ago

Six Sigma failed…

“Not invented here syndrome” is like making a statement to Prof Moradian or Prof Natarajan that your forecasting methods is flawed it does not work in my industry, company or department. Is not it prudent to ask if it worked somewhere, how did it happen? Let us take an analogy – Organization = Laptop Department = Microsoft Excel (MS Excel) When I make a statement– “You know what, 1. Mathematically, 2+2 is not equal to Read more…

By KRD Pravin, ago

Next super power?

Germany? Is that… few days back President Obama was in India, he supported India’s candidature for permanent seat in UN. Germany and Japan the other contenders raised their voices on that. Germany is one of the two elected countries to serve as member of Security Council for two-year terms that begin Jan 1. Germany is also the protagonist for Unified Europe e.g. European Union (EU). Germany is the strongest economy of EU. And the trouble Read more…

By KRD Pravin, ago

The line of understanding

I heard a story that a person was ready to change his religion because of the strange rituals followed in time of demise of someone in the family. The question to ask at such times is – Are we meant for systems or systems are meant for us? A mobile operator and a credit card company did the same with me. I always paid bills on time, at times in advance! Yes, I paid 1/3rd Read more…

By KRD Pravin, ago

Double dip!!

“There seems to be high likelihood of double dip!” When we heard our professor of macroeconomics Prof Mankad say that we could not believe it. I recently thought to plot some charts and realized that human sentiments are also equally responsible for this. The following is a graph, here we see an increase in the center yet once the peak is achieved there is a drop and no gain. Some call it correction. Well, frankly Read more…

By KRD Pravin, ago

There is no substitute…

My brother taught me playing Cricket; he introduced me to my Football and Basketball club. I played and represented club and division. I achieved some good accolades in athletics. He was the one who abusively told me when I was in class 5th that let us see if you can pass mathematics of class 10th either. And to his surprise I improved so much that I could solve MSc Physics problems when I was in Read more…

By KRD Pravin, ago

Evolution

I was wondering about evolution – how, what and when? I asked myself a question – when do we call something has evolved? The answer which came to my mind was –well, when the whole category of the group (species) grows from something old to new, that time we call this movement as evolution. If only one entity of a taxonomic group evolves – we may call development as an anomaly. Therefore, an evolution relates Read more…

By KRD Pravin, ago