- Problem Solving Compendium—37 tools to overcome hurdles in business and life
- Amazon
Very good book, but also crunchy, so it’s not a book you can read once off the top of your head like most books. - Books to chew on
- 【 Linear problem solving 】
- A problem-solving method based on linear causality.
- By tracing causality back in a linear fashion and removing or changing the ultimate cause that has been arrived at, the result is changed and the problem is solved.
- 【 Circular Problem Solving 】
- A problem-solving method used when the cause and effect relationship is a loop, as in the Chicken and Eggs relationship.
- Change the perception of the problem, not eliminate or change the ultimate cause
- Bring change to a vicious circle and indirectly change the problem.
Related to [systems thinking
7/37 is now a blue link, but digging into the red links also connects to various pages
- linear
- Acknowledgement of the Problem
- 01 100-year rule
- Does it matter a hundred years from now?”
- 02 Niebuhr sorting
- It’s hard to know what to change if the problem is still large, so split it up and evaluate variable degree.
- 03 nominal group process - Method developed in the 1970s based on brainstorming and [brainwriting
- 04 Camelot
- When you don’t know what the question (e.g. on a test) is, think about the ideal state and consider the gap with reality
- [The problem is the gap between what it should be and what it is.
- When you don’t know what the question (e.g. on a test) is, think about the ideal state and consider the gap with reality
- 05 Sato’s Problem Structure Diagram
- Issues that need to be addressed are not easy to close the gap
- After listing the causes of the inability to close the gap, organize them according to the template
- 06 Tinbergen’s Four Questions
- The claim that there are four kinds of “why.”
- Partially the same, partially different from my [Why four types of
- 07 logic tree
- Why-Why Analysis and related
- The why-why tree diagnostic tree that delved into the why and the why-why tree.
- I delved into the how how-how tree resolution tree.
- Related: Dig into the why & how to achieve your goals.
- Pointing out that the term “logic tree” as used in the world today is not logical.
- →Something similar is called an Issue Tree.
- Cause and effect are in a loop. In the case of a growing tree, the top one reappears at the bottom.
- Causal Loop Diagram (→page 326) and status quo analysis tree (→page 314) should be used.
- 08 characteristic factor diagram
- Characteristics (results) cannot be directly controlled
- 01 100-year rule
- Solution Seeking
- Solution Implementation
- Examining the results
- Acknowledgement of the Problem
- circular
- Acknowledgement of the Problem
- Solution Seeking
- 33 scaling question
- 34 ethnography
- 35 dual listening
- Solution Implementation
- 36 Pyrenees Map
- 37 symptom prescription
- Milton Erickson
- Dare to intensify symptoms when efforts to resolve them are causing them
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