Comments on: Problem Solving Tools and Techniques http://selfpursuit.com/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/33/ Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:35:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bridging Loan http://selfpursuit.com/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/33/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Bridging Loan Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:23:13 +0000 http://selfpursuit.com/33/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/#comment-272 I think 9 is the most important. You really need to keep your sense of humor throughout life, other wise you'll just end up bitter and alone. I think 9 is the most important. You really need to keep your sense of humor throughout life, other wise you'll just end up bitter and alone.

]]> By: Bud http://selfpursuit.com/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/33/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Bud Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:41:20 +0000 http://selfpursuit.com/33/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/#comment-200 The problem solving tools listed above are universal but in this case appear to be more geared to inventorship, but over generalized for that purpose. So this is a small dose of reality for the would be inventor coming from one that has been there, done that. First inventorship is not what its cracked up to be and the proverbial TV image of the madcap inventor gaining his ticket to glory most have in their heads is just that, TV image and not reality. Times have changed. In this day and time, the odds of a lone inventor selling his inventions to companies and getting wealthy of it are very slim. Those days are long past. Today, patents are more used by companies as business tools for gaining toe holds or some form of exclusivity in large markets and its done mainly by getting around someone else existing patents, no professional ethics to it. Devil always being in the details, an inventor has to know what to focus on and as always, its 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration and involves staying on the learning curve forever. Normally one does not invent something simply for invention sake or the satisfaction of knowing or saying they are an inventor of some item or utility, but principally to make money from said invention. Consequently, the money making ideas selection process boils down to first knowing markets and the niche market needs, missing products, price points, potential demand,timing that out of necessity directs the process of invention in this day and time. For every successful patented invention there are probably a 1000 patented inventions that failed no different from small undercapitalized buinesses. Most inventors feel strongly that they may have invented this or that usually based on the fact that they or those polled have not seen it before, but the simple truth its usually been patented many different times in the past and either never made it to commerce or did not make it in commerce. As a result, inventors patenting today must be fully informed on what has been patented or simply published on in the past, the "prior art" as well as versed in patent law and patent writing along with the various facets most importantly its pitfalls and snares. Never,ever trust a patent attorney to do your work for you or the way you wanted it done. Always remember, they are not gods, more like the typical ambulance chaser attorneys looking for a mark, so donlt let that mark be you. If you do, your no longer the inventor, he is and he will get you into more trouble and spend more of you or your backer's money that its worth winding up with non-novel bluff-only patent awards that will not hold up in court. Yes an attorney can get your a patent on just about anything that has been patented before, but one usually finds in the long run that they did not need patents to produce their items to begin with and would have saved a bundle that could have been better spent elsewhere by producing and selling without patents any "public domain" items whose patents had expired. Filtering through prior art claims to figure out what has and what has not been patented or was known previously atempting to find a novel or useful "in" for ones invention that he can gain a patent claims award on and how to weasil word the nit-picky details so patent examiner will accept it is largely what the patent process has boiled down to these days being that its more market spin that counts in today's world than scientific fact. Its a lot different today than it was in the early 1900s when little had been patented when patents were cheap and easy to get and the business climate was ripe for all manner of new things. I think many of these self-help, one man think-tank to market with successful patented product guides were probably written during and for that time period than for today's situation. The real test of any product is what it does sales, whether it performs its purpose and holds up for its warrantied time period without failure and if it has wht it takes to maitain itself in a sustainable market. The problem solving tools listed above are universal but in this case appear to be more geared to inventorship, but over generalized for that purpose. So this is a small dose of reality for the would be inventor coming from one that has been there, done that. First inventorship is not what its cracked up to be and the proverbial TV image of the madcap inventor gaining his ticket to glory most have in their heads is just that, TV image and not reality. Times have changed. In this day and time, the odds of a lone inventor selling his inventions to companies and getting wealthy of it are very slim. Those days are long past. Today, patents are more used by companies as business tools for gaining toe holds or some form of exclusivity in large markets and its done mainly by getting around someone else existing patents, no professional ethics to it. Devil always being in the details, an inventor has to know what to focus on and as always, its 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration and involves staying on the learning curve forever. Normally one does not invent something simply for invention sake or the satisfaction of knowing or saying they are an inventor of some item or utility, but principally to make money from said invention. Consequently, the money making ideas selection process boils down to first knowing markets and the niche market needs, missing products, price points, potential demand,timing that out of necessity directs the process of invention in this day and time. For every successful patented invention there are probably a 1000 patented inventions that failed no different from small undercapitalized buinesses. Most inventors feel strongly that they may have invented this or that usually based on the fact that they or those polled have not seen it before, but the simple truth its usually been patented many different times in the past and either never made it to commerce or did not make it in commerce. As a result, inventors patenting today must be fully informed on what has been patented or simply published on in the past, the "prior art" as well as versed in patent law and patent writing along with the various facets most importantly its pitfalls and snares. Never,ever trust a patent attorney to do your work for you or the way you wanted it done. Always remember, they are not gods, more like the typical ambulance chaser attorneys looking for a mark, so donlt let that mark be you. If you do, your no longer the inventor, he is and he will get you into more trouble and spend more of you or your backer's money that its worth winding up with non-novel bluff-only patent awards that will not hold up in court. Yes an attorney can get your a patent on just about anything that has been patented before, but one usually finds in the long run that they did not need patents to produce their items to begin with and would have saved a bundle that could have been better spent elsewhere by producing and selling without patents any "public domain" items whose patents had expired. Filtering through prior art claims to figure out what has and what has not been patented or was known previously atempting to find a novel or useful "in" for ones invention that he can gain a patent claims award on and how to weasil word the nit-picky details so patent examiner will accept it is largely what the patent process has boiled down to these days being that its more market spin that counts in today's world than scientific fact. Its a lot different today than it was in the early 1900s when little had been patented when patents were cheap and easy to get and the business climate was ripe for all manner of new things. I think many of these self-help, one man think-tank to market with successful patented product guides were probably written during and for that time period than for today's situation. The real test of any product is what it does sales, whether it performs its purpose and holds up for its warrantied time period without failure and if it has wht it takes to maitain itself in a sustainable market.

]]> By: HealingMindN http://selfpursuit.com/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/33/comment-page-1/#comment-199 HealingMindN Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:17:58 +0000 http://selfpursuit.com/33/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/#comment-199 Here are a few more tips as extensions of the above tips: The Law of Attraction helps draw those necessary solutions into your life. A situation may seem unique until you consider all of the self-replicating patterns in nature. A solution already exists to every situation; the solutions simply need revealing. Extension from #4 tip: Try practicing multiple mentalism as used by Harry Kahne; he was able to write poetry backwards in one hand while reciting a different poem forwards and simultaneously doing math with the other hand. All of this activity is geared towards approaching one situation from different perspectives. A problem is only a situation that needs fixing. Here are a few more tips as extensions of the above tips:

The Law of Attraction helps draw those necessary solutions into your life. A situation may seem unique until you consider all of the self-replicating patterns in nature. A solution already exists to every situation; the solutions simply need revealing.

Extension from #4 tip: Try practicing multiple mentalism as used by Harry Kahne; he was able to write poetry backwards in one hand while reciting a different poem forwards and simultaneously doing math with the other hand. All of this activity is geared towards approaching one situation from different perspectives.

A problem is only a situation that needs fixing.

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]]> By: Ferdinand Cenon http://selfpursuit.com/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/33/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Ferdinand Cenon Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:24:58 +0000 http://selfpursuit.com/33/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/#comment-126 my share is: always carry with you a small notebook and write down every ideas you can think of, including solutions and problems. With technology, you can use a PDA to save all your notes. sometimes, somehow you would be needing those notes one way or another to solve a problem, to answer a question or create a new invention. I use this technique in problems-solving. my share is:

always carry with you a small notebook and write down every ideas you can think of, including solutions and problems. With technology, you can use a PDA to save all your notes.

sometimes, somehow you would be needing those notes one way or another to solve a problem, to answer a question or create a new invention. I use this technique in problems-solving.

]]> By: Peter http://selfpursuit.com/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/33/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Peter Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:46:37 +0000 http://selfpursuit.com/33/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/#comment-63 All so fascinating. I look forward to communicating further with you. All so fascinating. I look forward to communicating further with you.

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