The Left Brain is logical by design. It is comfortable with structured methodologies and quality / management tools. It is depersonalized.
On the other hand, the Right Brain is creative by design. It is emotional. It can generate out-of-the-box ideas.
The Right Brain creativity coupled with Left Brain logic can deliver breakthrough innovative designs and solutions.
Logical Labs and Creativity Labs can ignite the creativity dormant in logical people.
Every great Problem Solver keeps an arsenal of logical quality tools handy to wage war against problems and wasteful costs. These are left-brain driven weapons that help create actionable steps towards Problem Solving.
Effective use of Quality Improvement Tools along with a problem solving structured methodology, can deliver breakthrough results in terms of cost efficiency and customer satisfaction. The art lies in using the tools in clever multiple combinations for problem solving.
This two-day Logical enables participants to understand the fundamentals of problem solving and the underlying concepts, application and construction of 10 Quality Improvement Tools through appropriate examples.
The Logical Lab includes a half-day multi-tool simulation exercise that provides the participants with practical experience on the application of tools, in a variety of combinations.
The scope for this two-day Logical Lab will include:
- Fundamentals of Problem Solving
- Flow Diagrams
- Brainstorming
- Cause-effect Diagrams
- Data Collection
- Graphs and Charts
- Stratification
- Histograms
- Pareto Analysis
- Scatter Diagrams
- Box Plots
Who should participate?
- A Logical Lab is ideal for four teams, consisting of five participants each, from the same business unit
- Each team should be familiar with a specific area of concern, relating to the business unit
- An area of concern should relate to a specific cross-functional chronic problem
- Ideal lab size: 20 members
Project Report
Each team will be required to prepare a project report for the adopted chronic problem.
Right-brain creativity is dormant in most left-brain logical professionals. A Creativity Lab, for a specific organization, ignites the right-brain creativity sleeping in small teams.
Teams are facilitated to ideate and design Best Practices, using Creativity Tools.
- The aim of the Creativity Lab is to simplify the subject managerial practice. Teams give birth to Best Practices
- Best Practices are embedded in the processes that drive a specific organization
- Best Practices are simple. They are easy to use
- Best Practices are difficult to design. They are designed using right-brain Creativity Tools
- Cross-industry Benchmarking for Best Practices, coupled with Creativity Tools, facilitates design of innovative Next Practices
- Next Practices accelerate Performance Excellence
The 8 Creativity Tools are:
- Area of Concern
- Problem Reformulation / Heuristic Redefinition
- Classic Brainstorming
- Brainwriting 6-3-5
- Imaginary Brainstorming
- TILMAG
- Morphological Box
- Best/Next Practice(s)
Who should Participate?
- A Creativity Lab is ideal for four teams, consisting of five participants each, from the same business unit
- Each team should be familiar with a specific area of concern, relating to the business unit
- An area of concern should relate to a specific cross-functional process
- Ideal lab size: 20 members
Report on Best / Next Practice
Each team will be required to prepare a report, in a prescribed format, for their Best/Next Practice in the specific area of concern.