The Kiwi Ingenuity Framework – reverse-engineering in short, fast cycles – though counter-intuitive to novices – is the secret of success in most human endeavours. Simple productivity frameworks
Frameworks are exceptionally powerful mechanisms for generating and conveying new insight and capability. They give our minds creative freedom within a context and structure and enable us to reverse-engineer our engagement from the required outcomes and outputs backwards. They expose the missing pieces of the puzzle. Think: template.
By way of illustration, here is the basic productivity framework that we’ve developed specifically for Orchestrated National Ingenuity, the Kiwi Ingenuity Framework:
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The Kiwi Ingenuity Framework |
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This framework is so simple that it’s easy to dismiss as being merely common sense, when in fact it’s an extremely uncommon – and deceptively powerful – approach. Although the greatest benefit will result from applying the four steps rigorously, in order, any of them can be used in isolation or combination with any others, in any order to significant and compounding benefit.
The conventional approach – forward-engineering in a single, large batch using the inadequate tools and solutions we already have, in the vain hope that they will do what they’re unable to do and, somehow, make a difference – is the natural response to the problem of having only inadequate solutions to the challenging situation we face. The consequence of forward-engineering with inadequate solutions in large batches is unfocused, unproductive engagement.
The Kiwi Ingenuity Framework – reverse-engineering in short, fast cycles – though counter-intuitive to novices – is the secret of success in most human endeavours.
The prosequence (inevitable good result) of reverse-engineering in short, fast cycles, is far more directed and focused interventions that prioritise creating what’s scarce or missing. This is infinitely better than trying to make what we’ve already got, do what it can’t possibly do. It focuses ingenuity at the bottleneck and weakest link in the chain –the only places that impact on end-to-end flow and strength.
See Appendix A for a detailed explanation of each step in the framework.
