Snapshot

Dealing With The Problem By Preventing The Problem

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Goal

Improve product or service safety of a medical equipment or devices' manufacturer

Problem

The detrimental effect of the problem on this goal is unfortunately predictable

Sebir

Product or service safety is upgraded through preventing the cause of the problem from having its normal effect. For instance, a medical manufacturer of tiny metal stents responds to the need for those stents to be periodically replaced in a person due to the treated arteries re-narrowing by coating them with a medication that prevents the artery from contracting quickly again. While technically retaining its status as a problem, the problem has been effectively emasculated because its usual trajectory has been blunted and the habitual outcome pre-empted.

Breeding Hint 1

Think about how you might see problems as traveling a path rather than representing a one-off event. An overview of the trajectory a problem follows could open up multiple opportunities for successful intervention

Breeding Hint 2

Think how you might reframe the problems that you regularly encounter in terms of some key elements that typify them. Isolating these elements could expose fertile areas to focus on, resulting in significant operational improvements

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