CI022
Implement a fast lightweight initial screening against clear criteria before committing detailed evaluation effort to any improvement idea.
CyberTRIZ analysis · Process contradiction CI022 · one of 8,235 worked contradictions published by CyberTRIZ.AI
Regulations
Greater Improvement Idea Volume vs. Faster Idea Evaluation
Business Context. Encouraging employees to submit a high volume of improvement ideas builds engagement and surfaces valuable suggestions, but evaluating a large volume of ideas quickly and fairly becomes increasingly difficult as submissions grow.
Process TRIZ Resolution. Rather than evaluating every idea with the same depth, organizations should use a fast, lightweight initial screening to filter ideas against a small set of clear criteria, reserving detailed evaluation for the subset that passes initial screening.
Applicable TRIZ Principles
Principle 1 (Segmentation) separates fast initial screening from detailed evaluation of promising ideas.
Principle 3 (Local Quality) applies detailed evaluation only to ideas that pass initial screening criteria.
Principle 21 (Skipping) moves quickly past ideas that clearly do not meet basic screening criteria.
Expected Outcome
High idea submission volume sustained
Fast overall evaluation cycle
Focused detailed review on promising ideas
Reduced evaluation backlog
Decision Indicators
Idea evaluation backlogs have grown to months of unreviewed submissions.
Employees stop submitting ideas because they never receive feedback.
Every idea receives the same detailed evaluation regardless of its potential.
No initial screening criteria exist to filter obviously low-value ideas.
Evaluation capacity has not scaled with growing submission volume.
If several of these indicators are present, the contradiction is likely active and the Process TRIZ resolution above should be evaluated.