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Principles for creative cost reduction
This choice of Inventive Principles delivers concrete impulses for thinking when it is a question of cost-reduction of a product, a process or a service.

 

Segmentation

Extraction

Local Quality

Universality

Prior Action

Partial or Excessive Action

Partial or Excessive Action

Self-service

Copying

Disposability (Cheap Short-living Objects)

HINT:

The use of Inventive Principles consists of three system levels:

 

- System or objekt itself (e.g. office phone)
- Sub-System (e.g. phone receiver)
- Super-System and environment (e.g. telephone system and telefon network).


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