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The GFunnel Methodology

Innovation and R&D Algorithm

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The steps

  1. Identify the variable space. What is currently held open in the domain? Per Variable Principle: innovation lives at the boundary of held-open variables.
  2. Identify which Hermetic principle the current solution is violating. The violation is the location of innovation opportunity.
  3. Apply Layer I.G (Slime Mold). What prior paths have been attempted? What information do they contribute?
  4. Generate options without filtering. Per Gather step: hold every variable open. Filtering during ideation destroys completeness.
  5. Test each option against falsifiability. What would prove this option won’t work? Run the cheapest falsification first.
  6. Build the surviving options at minimum viable scale (MVP). Apply Process Density: enough complexity to handle real cases, not so much it’s brittle.
  7. Test in the real environment. Per Cause and Effect: laboratory results predict laboratory results. Field results predict field results.
  8. Integrate failures per Layer I.G. Failed prototypes are not waste — they are substrate for the next iteration.
  9. Document everything. Per Database step. Innovation undocumented is innovation lost.
  10. Iterate at higher baseline. Each cycle is informed by every prior path.

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From the GFunnel Methodology v5.1 by Cameron Garlick, licensed CC BY 4.0. Steps are reproduced word for word.