Predictive Innovation: Core Skills

Table of Contents

Suggestion: Read Problem Solving first, then continue from the beginning of the book.

1. Acknowledgments
2. Why you need Predictive Innovation®
   • Old Way
   • New Approach: Predictive Innovation®
   • Benefits
   • Ways to use Predictive Innovation
   • Core Skills
   • What
   • How
   • When
   • Where
   • Who
   • Why
   • Get Started
3. Overview
   • What, How, and Doing it
4. What is Innovation
   • Ideal Product
5. Prerequisites
   • Functional Distinctions
   • Multidimensional Thinking
   • Complexity and Fractals
   • Time
   • Logic
   • Standard Units of Measure
   • Exercise
6. Dimensions of Predictive Innovation
   • Actors
   • Desires
   • Scenarios
   • Outcomes
   • Elements
   • Alternatives
   • Innovation Process
   • Exercise
7. Basics of Predictive Innovation
   • Outcomes
   • 7-Elements
   • 15-Alternatives
8. Alternatives
   • Ways to Use the Alternatives Grid
   • Scales
   • Directions
   • Direct
   • Indirect
   • Stable
   • Make Stable
   • Return to Stable
   • Time and Alternatives
   • Combining Scales and Directions
   • Example: Paint Sticks to Surface
9. Outcomes
   • Categories of States
   • Outcome Diagram
   • Exercise
10. Converting Desires into Outcomes
    • Emerging Expectations
    • More on Outcomes
11. Components, Functions, and Outcomes
    • Product and Process Improvement
    • Complimentary Products
    • Exercise
12. Primary Elements
    • Bicycle Examples
    • Chunking
13. Elements
    • Object
    • Begin State
    • End State
    • Action
    • Tools
    • Conditions
    • Resources
    • Element Expansion
    • Summary of Element Expansion
    • Element Example: Cookies
    • Choose Object
    • Define Desired End States
    • Next Step
    • Exercise
14. Multiplying Alternatives
    • Exercise
15. Universal User Process
    • Decide to Begin
    • Gather Materials
    • Prepare Materials
    • Confirm It's Ready
    • Do It
    • Monitor Progress
    • Make Adjustments
    • Conclude
16. Problem Solving
    • Solving the Unsolvable
    • Dilemma
    • Assumptions
    • Generalizations
    • Inversion
    • Exercise
17. Example: Learning a Skill
    • Elements
    • Alternatives
18. Example: Bicycle
    • Functions
    • Elements
    • Components
19. Combinations
20. Innovation Quotient
21. Predicting
    • Predicting Process
    • 1. Diagram Outcomes
    • 2. Ideal States
    • 3. Functionally Distinct Steps
    • 4. Map Steps Covering the Idea Space
    • Under-served Outcomes
    • Breakthrough vs. Incremental Innovation
22. Summary
    • Next Step
23. Glossary