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These Are The Benefits to Business & Industry for Encouraging Personnel to Use SM-14 Teach your children the Method and they will be more successful in life. In Edmund's Idea & Research Report on THE GENERAL PATTERN OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD (SM-14) and supplement, I explain the many advantages of using SM-14. The following is a condensed summary of some of these advantages.

	Meet Global Competition with More Complete Problem Solving and Decision Making Skills The main way to keep ahead of competition is through better thinking; perpetual innovation; entrepreneurship; creativity; and more complete problem solving and decision making. SM-14 is the guide to all of them. One formula or guide serves these and many other areas. As several generations have not been adequately taught complete problem solving, you can improve the productivity of your organization by encouraging employees to learn and use SM-14.
	Guide to Thinking SM-14 helps you organize your thoughts, ends aimless wandering, helps ideas gather shape, increases self-confidence, and helps you to avoid snap judgments, train for change and innovation, etc.
	Management and Planning How to manage and how to plan are basically problems. Thus the better your managers are trained in the use of SM-14, the better job they will do. Teach method along with subject matter, and you will get better transfer of learning.
	Creative Problem-Solving Method One of the best creative problem solving formulas has been offered by the Creative Education Foundation. SM-14 is more complete and is based on centuries of development. Its use will lead to more new ideas, innovations, and challenge of changes, to be sure they are correct and practical for your organization.
	Scientific Management, Management Sciences, and Rational Management These require the use of SM-14. My booklet explains the misunderstandings that exist about these subjects. Clear them up in your organization and you will help improve management performance.
	Empower Employees With the current movement to push problem solving and decision making further down the ranks in organizations, you should be helping employees to understand and learn a complete problem-solving formula or guide, such as SM-14.
	Environmental Problems There are numerous claims (many questionable) being made about the environment. Apply SM-14 to the problem, and you can find the real answer.
	Health and Personal Lives Teach employees SM-14. It will also aid them in solving their own personal problems, being less distracted from their occupational duties, this increases business profits.
	One Universal and Basic Formula Serves the Purpose of Numerous Ones In his works, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon points out that problem solving, decision making, operation research, discovery, management, medical diagnosis, configuring systems, design, chemistry research, scientific inquiry, and scientific method are all basically the same process. In my booklet you will find an even longer list of things that are complete problem solving (i.e., "The Scientific Method"). Thus, great savings are possible if one standard formula or guide (such as SM-14) is taught, rather than numerous miscellaneous ones that are usually not complete formulas or guides.

The complexity of business and industry is increasing ever faster. While computers both help and add to the problem, the only real answer is training people to think better and to improve their problem solving, decision making, and personal attributes.

SM-14 is the basic method needed for all of these skills.