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12 General Principles
Mobility - Immobility (Dynamic - Static)
Make fixed parts of a system or the environment movable and vice versa.
 
HINT:
  1. Make unchangeable properties changeable or dynamic to obtain an optimum effect, or the other way round: reduce the mobility/ changeability.
  2. Make a system or a process more adaptable, adaptive and intelligent - or vice versa.
  3. Make a system or a process more flexible, easier to dismantle, renewable or restorable.
  4. Related technical TRIZ Principles: 3. Local Quality , 13. Inversion , 15. Dynamism , 30. Flexible shells and thin films
EXAMPLE:
  1. Flexible organisational structure replaces a stiff hierarchic structure.
  2. Flexible working hours e.g.: a fixed number of hours to be worked monthly or yearly.
  3. Give a highly qualified, yet 'problematic individual', tasks to limit the time he or she has to spend with the project team.
  4. Design your website to be of dynamic and adaptable, starting with the simple reproduction of printed catalogues up to the utilisation of search engines, online-help files and other services.
  5. Production of tailor-made clothing: the customer selects a piece of clothing, then their measurements are taken, stored in a database and submitted to the production site. The next time, the customer can order his clothing without leaving the house.
  6. Debit cards or charge cards in supermarkets or warehouses make it possible to create individual profiles of customer shopping habits and help to customize the range of goods.
  7. Software packages with different tools for beginners and experts.
  8. A higher overall level of dynamic project management enables smooth product development at all stages of the process: research and pre- development work, development and design, production planning and production, assembly, sales and after-sales service.
  9. Tailor made and customized products for certain niche markets.
  10. Internet bookstores like Amazon and BOL invite their customers to write online reviews of the books. These opinions, which are regularly added to, are read more often than professional reviews.
  11. "Open opinion management": employees can inform the general management if their direct superiors ignore their suggestions for no good reason.
  12. In open-plan offices, curtains can be used to screen-off areas as required.