9 Boxes is a TRIZ tool used to identify the scope of innovation we want to focus on and find solutions across different time periods (past, present, future) and scale (upper system, system and subsystem levels).
It is generally beneficial to focus on the task at hand to make our work easier because doing so makes sense to increase our work efficiency and keep our thinking within reasonable limits. However, this focusing can create a kind of psychological inertia and place false limitations on your thinking and therefore your understanding of problems and situations.
The 9 Boxes help you expand your understanding of any situation you find yourself in, by enabling you to Think in Time and Scale; It challenges the scope of what you need to look at and the new types of solutions you need to look for. Often very innovative solutions can be found as soon as you get your head around the details. It is very easy to apply:
- You can start with any box you want.
- You can use it both to understand the problem and to suggest solutions.
- You can increase the number of boxes as you wish. (e.g. near future or distant future)
- For ease of understanding, you can do several 9 Box applications, one after the other.
- Examples of upper systems: Environment, society, market, state, municipality
- Examples of subsystems: subparts, connectors,
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