40 inventive principles / #21
#21 Skipping
What it says
- Run a harmful or hazardous step at very high speed.
Examples
- Software
- Run a risky migration in one short window rather than spread out.
- Business
- Rip off the bandage: announce bad news quickly and once.
- Engineering
- Cut plastic tubes fast so the heat cannot deform them.
- Everyday life
- Pull off a plaster in one go.
Where the matrix suggests it
The classic contradiction matrix suggests Skipping in 37 of its 1,248 filled cells. Most often for these conflicts:
- Improving Stability of the object's composition worsens Weight of moving object
- Improving Duration of action of moving object worsens Object-generated harmful factors
- Improving Temperature worsens Loss of energy
- Improving Temperature worsens Loss of substance
- Improving Loss of energy worsens External harm affects the object
- Improving Loss of energy worsens Object-generated harmful factors
- Improving Loss of substance worsens Temperature
- Improving Reliability worsens Speed