{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/look-at-the-problem-through-nine-windows",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0438",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Look at the problem through nine windows",
  "summary": "A problem can look permanent when you inspect only the middle square.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Draw a 3×3 grid: subsystem, system and supersystem vertically; past, present and future horizontally. Describe the problem and relevant resources in each window. Use the grid to reveal causes inherited from the past, solutions available in a neighboring level, and future constraints your local fix may create.",
  "limits": [
    "Future windows are scenarios, not predictions; keep uncertainty explicit."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-triz-structured-invention"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-D5599612538BA457"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "The Nine Windows technique examines a problem across past, present and future at subsystem, system and supersystem levels.",
      "source_id": "RS-D5599612538BA457",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The grid widens perspective; it does not identify causal relationships or predict the future by itself.",
      "locator": "Nine Windows grid"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "The solution search is trapped at the current system level and current moment."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Future windows are scenarios, not predictions; keep uncertainty explicit."
  ],
  "example": "For recurring mass-update errors, inspect the source-data subsystem, the current MDG workflow, the wider replication landscape, and how each changed before and may change after S/4 migration.",
  "check": "The team generates a useful hypothesis, resource or option that was invisible in the original present-system frame.",
  "steps": [
    "Present system is described in the center.",
    "Present subsystem and supersystem are identified.",
    "Relevant past states are described at all three levels.",
    "Plausible future states or pressures are described at all three levels.",
    "At least one new option or risk comes from a non-center window."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-D5599612538BA457",
      "title": "Nine Windows Technique Framework for the Future",
      "url": "https://www.wp.aitriz.org/blog/triz-quality/nine-windows-technique-framework-for-the-future"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0438",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0440",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/move-the-problem-boundary-outward-when-the-local-frame-is-stuck"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-0176FEADE3BB023B",
      "title": "Resolve the contradiction instead of polishing the compromise",
      "url": "/collections/resolve-the-contradiction-instead-of-polishing-the-compromise"
    }
  ]
}