Innovation in Practice Blog

The Task Unification Technique is one of five in the innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking. It is defined as “assiging an additional task to an existing resource.” It is such a powerful technique because it often leads to Closed World solutions, or what we like to call “thinking inside the box.” It yields innovations that tend to leverage some resource in the immediate vicinity in a clever way. It also tends to yield innovations that have a characteristic known as Ideality – the solution to a problem only appears when needed. When the problem arises, the solution is also there.