Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering: Cell
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Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering: Cell
I’ve found that every suggestion should be subjected to the same rigorous scientific inquiry that led to the creation of the Lean Startup in the first place. Can we use the theory to predict the results of the proposed change? Can we incubate the change in a small team and see what happens? Can we measure its impact?
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Once selected, the possibility generators must commit themselves to separating their first step—the creation of possibilities—from the subsequent steps of testing and selecting. Managers with critical minds naturally tend to greet each new idea with a long list of reasons why it won’t work. The leader must constantly remind the group that ample tim
... See moreRoger L. Martin • A New Way to Think
This is a massive problem in decision-making. We try to close down the solution space of any problem in order to arrive at a single right answer that is difficult to argue with.
Rory Sutherland • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Step 1: Move from Issues to Choice Conventional strategy-making tends to focus on problems or issues, such as declining profits or market share. As long as this is the case, the organization will fall into the trap of investigating data related to the issues rather than exploring and testing possible solutions. A simple way to get strategists to av
... See moreRoger L. Martin • A New Way to Think
10. Map out problems using logic trees.
This is a classic problem-solving and brainstorming technique, also known as
morphological analysis
. It’ll be familiar to any consultant, as it’s 80% of their secret sauce.
Take a problem, say analyzing a business’s profits (as in consulting). Break it down into
logically exhaustive possibilities
, e.g. “reve... See more
This is a classic problem-solving and brainstorming technique, also known as
morphological analysis
. It’ll be familiar to any consultant, as it’s 80% of their secret sauce.
Take a problem, say analyzing a business’s profits (as in consulting). Break it down into
logically exhaustive possibilities
, e.g. “reve... See more
Nabeel S. Qureshi • Tips for Productivity, Thinking, and Doing
Most of them had first identified a problem area—manufacturing, cable companies, software rivalry, and so on—and then created a recommendation aimed at that area. No one using this two-step approach had gone back and considered rethinking the initial identification of a key problem area. Nor had any of them investigated more than one response to th
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