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Savings Beyond Price -Weekly eNewsletter - June 16, 2010
Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Strategist
Are You Really Thinking Outside the Box?
Greetings,
We would all like to think we are innovative in our supply chain strategies, but are we really thinking outside the box (thinking differently, unconventionally and from a new perspective) or are we just following the herd? I will let you answer that question.
What I will state here is that “only big ideas will enable you to have big breakthroughs in your supply chain strategies”. These paradigm shifts won’t come from buying into the herd mentality. These big ideas will only come to you in a flash by having limitless boundaries in your thinking.
The concept of thinking outside the box was created by consultant Mike Vance while working with the Disney Company. It was based on the premise of the “nine-dot puzzle” where you are asked to connect the dots by drawing four straight, continuous lines that pass through each of the nine dots, and never lifting the pencil from the paper.
The answer to this puzzle, which most of us including me have been stumped by, is to draw the lines outside the confines of the square area defined by the nine dots themselves. The puzzle only seems difficult because we have drawn an imaginary line outside the boundaries of the square, which limits our options in correctly connecting the dots.
The “nine-dot puzzle” is really a metaphor for our own thinking process; we are only limited by our perceived boundaries, never by our circumstances. Albert Einstein was one of the greatest out of the box thinkers of our times because he was never limited by what was considered at the time boundaries of space and time. All of his theories (e.g. defection of light by gravity, photon theory, zero point energy, etc.) were thought to be fiction, until he and others proved them to be fact.
It’s the same with supply chain strategies. Just because every one of your colleagues thinks that vendor controlled consignment inventories are the right tactic for them, it might be the wrong strategy for you. Just because all your peers are joining a new regional GPO, doesn’t mean it the right decision for you. There might be new and better answers on these issues that you haven’t thought of yet, because you are being held back by the “conventional wisdom” of your time and place.
So, when someone suggests a new strategy, tactic or technique that everyone is jumping on in the marketplace, don’t be so quick to say yes to this new idea until you have turned this idea upside down and backwards to see if you can think of an even better breakthrough idea to meet the same objective. Then and only then will you be truly thinking outside the box. This will enable you to solve any supply chain puzzle that will comes your way. It just takes some limitless boundaries thinking to do so.
Your Partner In Savings Beyond Price™,
Robert T Yokl
Chief Value Strategist
Strategic Value Analysis® In Healthcare
1-800-220-4274
P.S. If you want to read more about thinking outside the box ideas, I would suggest your read my article “Are You Looking for Breakthrough Innovation?” to find new ways to harness, nurture and tweak your ideas.
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