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En el marco de la complejidad del análisis estratégico como un proceso que requiere de capacidad analítica, técnica, conocimiento e intuición la creación de una metodología que permita obtener nuevo conocimiento es relevante para anticipar potenciales direcciones de desarrollo. Bajo esta perspectiva, en este artículo se propone una metodología creativa y sistémica para la generación de estrategias en distintos contextos basándose en herramientas tradicionales de estrategia y herramientas creativas como es la teoría de resolución de problemas (TRIZ). Finalmente, un caso de estudio real es desarrollado con el objetivo de mostrar la aplicabilidad de la metodología en una industria Chilena relevante, como es la industria minera. A strategic analysis can be considered as a complex process that requires specific analytical skills as technique, knowledge and intuition. A new methodology needs to be capable of obtaining new knowledge to anticipate a more holistic strategic directions. With this perspective, in this article is proposed a creative and systematic methodology to develop strategic analysis considering different context, the methodology is based on traditional tools from strategic literature and creative tools from problem solving literature known as TRIZ. Moreover, the methodology was conceived as step by step structure in order to support beginners for the application of this type of analysis. Finally, an interesting and real case study was developed in order to show the applicability of the methodology in a relevant industry of Chile as the mining industry.

Innovation projects has established as an emerging field of research, a number of issues have emerged; among the others, measurability and predictability of product development. Moreover, whilst great relevance has been given to aspects such as innovation factors, product results, cognitive knowledge, poor attention has been given to other fundamental factors: product development process and effectiveness of design process as a consequence of complex problem situation. A formalization in affordances of design process may help overcome said issues and enhance product effectiveness, by identifying and highlighting potential designers' workload perception during the Product Development Process. In this scenario, this paper describes an approach for continuously monitoring and measuring the complexity of design process during the creation of a new product. After an overview of the related work, this study proposes a common instructional design model for Product Development Process, which was split in order to be measured by using NASA-TLX. This research propose that the use of NASA-TLX to predict and measure the designer workload during the design process contributes to a better understanding of the relationships among the different design phases and designer workload. After having shown a case study, a discussion about the possible developments, as well as the limitations of the proposed method, concludes this work.

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Failure causes of production systems need to be readily identified, for effective recovery solutions. Root cause analysis can be used for this, integrated by a method for identifying coherent and sustainable solutions. In this article, root cause analysis for failure cause identification is coupled with a method of problem solving to guide the search for effective solutions, called theory of inventive problem solving. The integration of these methodologies is implemented and demonstrated on a real case concerning the solution to the potential failure of the equipment used in the torque test performed on truck engines used in high-tonnage mining operation. The incorporation of a key performance indicator analysis allows evaluating realistically the results obtained and determining the success of the solution.