Problem-solving examples

A) STEP-BY-STEP DETAILS OF PROBLEM-SOLVING DURING DAILY DUTIES
 
  • [link] 2.5 months – Mitigating flood risk : Saving the client $100-200,000 + $millions in avoided future liabilities at a Crown-funded public works (flood control) construction site.
  • [link] 4.0 weeks – 1-4cm-flaw : Solving 6-year-old manufacturing flaw (decision error). mm pressings of a pencil nib producing cardboard pattern creep = flaws endangering the life of a customer alone in the Arctic.
  • [link] 2.0 months – 5-zero-pattern-clue : Recovering lost assets over the first 90 days of a new task – by noticing a shifting 5-zero pattern in spreadsheet printouts [my ballpark estimate of damage: C$8 million]
  • [link] 1.0 week – Database merge audit : Successfully auditing multinational database merge [my ballpark estimate of future cost to achieve final 3% merge: C$1.46 million]

B) (2017-2022) “PROXIMITY of DESIRE” (“POD”) – moved to dedicated page: Link: https://davehuer.com/proximity-of-desire-pod/

  • Part 1) ECOLOGICAL ACCOUNTING PROCESS (EAP) Foundation Metrics Framework
  • Part 3) PRECEDENT THREADS

C) (2019-20) NEW FRAMEWORKS FOR ESG INVESTMENT

    1. Independent Accounting Innovation: An equation to calculate the financial $value of voter desires expressing la voix populaire – the popular will: [Link7of8] [Link8of8] 
    2. Watershed Aboiteaux: Proposing the use of reverse-engineered low-profile cascades of aboiteauxto capture upland surface water flows into local catchment areas, by slowing water flows (ex. edge of fields, etc.). Aboiteaux are part of an ancient sluice/dyke system used in colonial Acadia (now Nova Scotia) to recapture salt marsh fields for agriculture: [Link].
D) [link] BUILDING BUSINESS BEACHHEAD IN EUROPE during a jack-of-all-trades Customer Service role  = Job: Expand presence in UK/Europe at low cost
 
  • approx 1.0 month : Getting our certified product into EU’s highly regulated National Security/Public Safety market – simply changing the name to get regulator approval [ Re-certification cost: $0]
  • approx 1.5 months : Figuring out how to ship Canadian goods into Europe from Canada as French local mail [20-40% forecast cut to air freight costs]
  • approx 1.5 months : Stealthy method to get inexpensive, drip-drip-drip, high-profile mobile advertising on Royal Navy bases…without UK competitors knowing [ $1000 split with dealers = our cost = $500 x 5-year product life = $100/year per base]
  • by end of 4-months : We didn’t do the mail. Instead, during the mail-freight re-mapping process, discovering that we could flat-pack like IKEA does [Cutting Average Freight Package Volume by 33%]
  • by end of 4-months : We didn’t do the product placement advertising. The owner changed direction, minimizing new activities in EU.

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