Control Questions

RUSSIAN VERSION

The advantage of this method is that many of the control questions already incorporate TRIZ tools. Even a problem solver unfamiliar with TRIZ will utilize it by answering these questions. For those who are familiar, the control questions serve as a helpful cheat sheet to ensure nothing is overlooked.

Primary Situation Analysis

1. What goal do you want to achieve?
2. What is hindering you?
3. Why do you want to achieve this goal? — List several reasons.
4. What typical methods for achieving this goal do you know—including those that don’t suit you? Analyze each method to determine under what conditions it would work for you.
5. Using your list of reasons, formulate several goals—achieving any of which would solve your problem. (You can set each of these new goals as a separate task.)
6. Who, besides you, wants to achieve this same or a similar goal?
7. With whom can you collaborate to achieve the goal?
8. Whom can you interest in helping you solve this task? How? With what?
9. Who is preventing you from achieving the goal? Why? (Avoid generalities; try to identify the root causes.)
10. Is it possible to neutralize this obstacle? How? What is preventing it?
11. How can you redirect the harmful activity of the obstacle?
12. How can you turn the harmful activity to your advantage?
13. How can you persuade (convince, incentivize) the one creating the obstacle to help you?
14. What can you do in advance to facilitate achieving your goal at the right time?
15. What should you do periodically to help reach your goal?
16. What can you remove or relocate to achieve your goal?
17. What can you add to the necessary space to stop the obstacle from interfering?
18. How can you structure the space so the obstacle no longer hinders you?
19. How can you incorporate the obstacle into something larger so it ceases to be an issue?
20. How can you divide the obstacle into parts, each manageable separately?
21. What needs to be done long before or shortly before the project to aid its implementation and growth?
22. How can you make the project’s launch a newsworthy event so many people become aware of it? What can you do in advance to achieve this?
23. How can you make time work in favor of the project?
24. Where would your project be most effective? Why? What advantages of the actual application location can you utilize?
25. Who is directly or indirectly interested in the project’s development? How can they help?
26. What additional activities can involve the project’s consumers?
27. Who might resist the project’s implementation and development, and why? How can you turn adversaries into allies or at least neutralize them?
28. By whom and how is your solution used rarely, irregularly, or once? How can you encourage frequent and consistent use?
29. Who will not use your solution at all? Why? How can you attract their interest?
30. By whom and how is your solution used regularly and consistently? How can you strengthen their motivation?
31. Can you enhance your solution by shifting from individual to collective users or vice versa? What unusual users might the project attract?
32. How can you modify the project so users need it as much as daily bread or tea?
33. How can you involve users in creating, refining, and developing the project?
34. In what other ways can your users contribute to the project’s growth?
35. If your competitors wanted to create a similar project, what would they change? What would they add?
36. Of what larger service or business could your project become a part?
37. Under what circumstances would users of your service or product form an exclusive club?
38. What are your users willing to share?
39. What would users happily contribute funds toward?
40. When would it be reasonable to make your service or product free? How can you profit from the outcomes if your service or product is free?
41. Who will implement your project during the startup phase and the growth phase?
42. What will you do to avoid staff shortages in the event of rapid development?
43. Which staff roles can the project do without? What can operate independently or automatically?
44. How can you organize contests, auctions, or exchanges based on the project?
45. How can you utilize souvenirs, supplementary products, or branding in the project?
46. List the main risks of the project. How will you minimize them?
47. List the primary expenses of the project. How will you minimize them?

Resources for Solving/Improving…

Time Resources

1. Everything that can be done in advance should be done in advance.
2. Complete at least part of the most labor-intensive operation ahead of time.
3. Arrange objects in advance so they can come into action without time spent on delivery.
4. Divide the process into operations that can be performed in parallel rather than sequentially.
5. How can you work continuously? How can you eliminate idle and intermediate steps?
6. Use the time between operations.
7. Is it possible to organize continuous work?

Space Resources

1. Shift from linear arrangement to planar arrangement, and from planar to spatial arrangement.
2. Use multi-level (multi-story) configurations instead of single-level ones.
3. Utilize the reverse side of the given area.
4. Can you attach or suspend objects from the ceiling or walls?
5. Is it possible to place one item inside another, like a matryoshka doll?
6. Allow one object to pass through cavities in another object.
7. Make it foldable or detachable.
8. Make it inflatable.
9. Use one large part or device alternately in different technical systems.
10. Move a bulky part or device outside the confined space.
11. Eliminate an object from the confined space by transferring its functions to the remaining objects.

To be continued…

Knowledge Base

This tool is fully integrated as a key element within the xFaer AI system’s program block, accompanied by a custom GPT that sequentially asks an extended, detailed set of questions. Based on these responses, it builds a tailored action plan for solving your problem or overcoming challenges. For those interested, please reach out to the provided contact, and we’ll share a link to the latest version of this module.

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