Ideal Final Result – Begin with “IDEAL” End in Mind

Ideal Final Result is a central theme of Systematic Innovation Philosophy. It is also one of the psychological inertia tools which help innovator imagine the ideal state of her improvement endeavor. Organizational transformation/s mainly aim at improving products/ processes to make them faster, better, cheaper & newer, therefore IFR thinking must lie at the epicenter of all the product / process improvement initiatives s that it has espoused to achieve its desired goal. IFR enables Innovator to think about the value delivery which means embracing more benefits at less cost with less harm. So in nutshell all the product / process improvement efforts must result in more of good things and less of bad things for customer / consumer and business alike.

It is a common belief that IFR is the final goal to achieve, therefore improvement teams’ start implementing actions, they feel best at any given point in time, (as a result of re active brainstorming & to demonstrate to its leaders that action is on. less of Planning or wrong planning and more of DOING….) with a hope to reach IFR at some point in time during their improvement journey. On the contrary, IFR or Ideality suggests innovator to begin with end in mind and write down all the impediments that are likely to be faced by him/ her in achieving her desired IFR. This is very difficult to imagine at first as it means, at times, eliminating the incumbent process or a product that is being improved upon. At this stage we need to work on our psychological inertia and keep focusing on IFR as the quality of Innovation depends on how closer solution is to IFR.

IFR is also function of a time i.e. it changes with time. Google offers free searches to its users, its main source of revenue is/ was advertisements, but the revenue is/ will shrink further, which is then compensated by selling knowledge & insights it gathers by way of its blog traffic.

To sum up, IDEALITY is First Station on your Innovation Journey …….