PRINCIPAL, “SOLVING THE IMPOSSIBLE PTY LTD

Welcome to our unique world of “Solving the Impossible”. Thanks for taking the time to visit. For many years I have worked in a global corporate innovation environment, had the privilege to hold extensive senior management positions in Australia, South Africa, Singapore, Thailand and the United States, and as part of my global duties, have also visited over 95 countries. You can find more detail of my background in About Us. I describe my incredible life as “Nomadic Escapades”!

One of the major benefits of these fantastic opportunities has been to work, live in, or visit many different cultures, and better understand the diversity of how we as humans think. No matter what country I was in, and no matter how many visits I had already made, I was always learning something new, and continually being thanked by the local colleagues, for bringing a new perspective to their own lives. It occurred to me that all of us have so much more to learn and give, sharing new knowledge, regardless of our own academic standing, accomplishments or experience. Perplexing business and social needs issues appeared to be an ample target to practice on.

 I wanted to stretch the challenge even further. What if we focused on tapping these resources and finding solutions to seemingly “impossible problems”, to produce transformational outcomes? There is no creativity template approach to these types of challenges: starting with a blank piece of paper is the only way, and using unconventional thinking techniques.

I used two early practice “impossible” challenges from different parts of the world and industries. The first involved solving an agricultural spray company’s dilemma due to apparent climate change. They previously provided farmers separate drums of specific  summer and winter intense formula spray, each carefully engineered for a temperature and rainfall combination, and then some extra drums of each for  the small cross-over season. Now they have found themselves having to provide expensive, unplanned excess inventory at short notice around the country, since the climate variations were changing rapidly, and seasons becoming indistinct, compared to past years.

The second  involved a mining site in which productivity was being affected by the long refuelling time required for the huge haul trucks, and the obvious transactional answer of a faster fill pump, was deemed unacceptable.

With the guidance of a “Solving The Impossible” mindset and multiple focused creativity techniques, some actually being developed as a result of these two problem challenges, each not only were solved, but gave multiple unique solutions to choose from. Answers? Sorry, as policy, Solving the Impossible always safeguards the confidentiality of the client’s solution information.   
 
I welcome the opportunity to assist your own organization to move up to these latest techniques, through either sharing an overview of some of the processes via speaking engagement/workshop facilitation/assessments, or to work directly with you and your team in a more extensive role through our Global Consulting Gateway. While you are here, take the opportunity to look around the other areas of the site – there is a lot going on!

I wish you every success as you tackle your own “impossible problems”