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How to define urgency and importance of tasks when prioritizing?
Tasks prioritization is a key instrument for making your work more effective. If you want to achieve more with less, and if you want to waste less time for output and instead be outcome-oriented, then task prioritization is mandatory. Tasks prioritization is a typical management tool, but it is useful for managers, engineers, and technicians because it tool helps to manage your personal activity, improves the efficiency of your work, increases impact, and evidently helps your promotion. In this article, we want to concentrate on how to define urgency and importance correctly. Urgency – Importance Matrix Urgency – Importance Matrix is…
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Coronavirus! If you can’t fight it, join it!
It is not a secret for anyone that there is an ongoing global pandemic these days. Covid-19 (or how most people call it, coronavirus) is spreading fast and kills many. Pretty much the entire world now tries to find a solution for it and some countries are claiming that they already did, or at least found a way to contain and control the virus. Of course, we are not medical or biology professionals by any stretch of the imagination, but everyone is aware of how catastrophic this pandemic is for the global economy and the effect it has on everyone’s…
The art of innovation project
Anything we do is a kind of project. Indeed, even a simple thing as shopping is a project because we do it to solve a problem and to make changes in some parameters. All projects have similar traits. Let’s examine engineering projects. Even though we have already discussed the aspects related to projects and tasks in our blog Project’s tasks management with PRIZ Innovation Platform, we decided to raise the question of the project and tasks again because it is not trivial at all, especially when we talk about innovation projects. Types of projects In general, one can think of…
Effective BrainStorming (EBS)
Brainstorming is one of the most popular creative instruments for problem-solving. The simplest method is the unstructured brainstorming. The process is easy. We collect different ideas (tasks) for the validation. The more the number of ideas the more the probability to get the correct or at least the most effective solution. People believe that if they generate a huge number of ideas they will be able to find the solution to the problem. Generally speaking, it is correct. However, the question is how to choose the right idea or task. What is the problem with brainstorming as we know it?…