The KJ method was created to “summarize a lot of qualitative data” and then applied to various purposes

Calling this “expanded scope” the KJ method seems to me to be vague in its objectives ,

Is the purpose of Thinking Fireworks to “quickly find the Next Action”?

  • Not a messy decision, but one based on data.
  • 川喜田二郎.iconBringing to a conclusion the problems that arise daily (p. 304).
  • nishio.iconYeah, well, the conclusion is not always the action.
    • It could also conclude, “There’s nothing we can do about this at this time, so we’re going to hold off until six months from now.”

I tried to show that I was working on such a tool, but there was no mention of it on the Kozaneba digital stationery to organize your thoughts page.


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