Simplified Thinking Processes
by Jelena Fedurko-Cohen

Jelena has developed and over the last few years extensively used the Simplified Thinking Processes (Simplified TP) for various companies in the formant of Solution Development Sessions with management teams.

Simplified TP allow management teams to:

  • quickly find effective and immediately doable solutions to their persistent problems;

  • maintain high level of involvement and enthusiasms of managers during the process;

  • acquire the mechanics of working with the tools straight in the process of solution development.

Use of the Simplified TP:

  • significantly increases the value of managers and management consultants;

  • significantly increase their portfolio of developed solutions for various problems,

  • enhances their ability to recognize and develop solutions in new situations.

Simplified TP contain the same logical rigor as the Full  TP.

SIMPLIFIED Thinking Processes Tools allow the user to come to an effective Injection within minutes, rather than hours or days that Full TP Tools require.

The ultimate objective of central TOC TP tools is to find a sustainable and risk-free solution (INJECTION) and outline the way of implementing it.

However, while working brilliantly, regular TOC TP tools (Full TP) take a long time to come to an Injection.

For regular TOC TP tools to be successfully applied and taught, people who go through this process should:

  • Enjoy “going inside” their situation for detailed and structured understanding of what drives what in their system;

  • NOT feel threatened by examining their own thinking and exposing their assumptions to others;

  • Have patience to go through several iterations of the analysis of the same issue and multiple repetitions for the same process for several different issues;

  • Have time that requires to go through this process.

However, the reality is different:

  • The time span that can be used for finding solutions with the help of TP is limited;

  • Tediousness and multiple repetitions in the use of regular TP quickly bring people to lose enthusiasm, get discouraged, and disengage.

Simplified TP allow managers to develop robust quality solutions while drastically saving their time and capacity.

How can one learn Simplified Thinking Processes?

1. Solution Development Sessions for Management Teams

Fully customized dedicated online or on-site Development Sessions allow management teams to:

  • Find robust solutions to chronic problems in operations; 

  • Lay out and detail thorough improvement action plans;

  • Come up with doable ideas for innovation and sustainability and build implementation plans; 

  • Shape and detail a direction for company transformation; 

  • Address and find solutions to their managerial and business issues. 

The number of sessions, their format (online or on-site) and duration are agreed on a case by case basis. 

Information: jelena@tocexpert.com 

2. Online program ’Simplified Thinking Processes – a Shortcut to Injections’

The program can be conducted as a dedicated program for one company or as an open program.

8 Online Sessions, a session once a week, each session is 3 hours including a 15-minute break.

Session 1:       The 3-step process to get a quality input for Simplified Thinking Processes from the company situation.

Sessions 2-3:  Simplified UDE Cloud. One-page Injection design. Predetermined assumptions.

Session 4:       Simplified NBR: a Shortcut to the Injection point.

Session 5:       The algorithm of making Injections happen.

Session 6:       Simplified Two-Sided Interest Conflict Cloud.

Session 7:       Branch “3 What For?”

Session 8:       The new effective algorithm to replace 6 Layers of Resistance – working with people.

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Each session is built of 2 parts:

  • Explaining new algorithms and working through examples

  • Practicing and working through the homework from a previous session.

Information: jelena@tocexpert.com