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Experience has shown that you must follow a guide to achieve the most successful complete problem solving and decision making. SM-14 serves the important function of guiding our thinking through the stages of complete problem solving and decision making.
John Dewey, in How We Think (1933) states:
"Method consists of a set of operations by which the machinery of thought is set going and kept at work on any subject." |
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Here are just a few of the advantages of having a method for problem origination, prevention, solution, and challenge of solution, as suggested by various authors. It will:
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organize thoughts |
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aid specific transfer of learning |
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clarify thoughts |
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keep focus in the right direction |
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avoid relying only on intuition |
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end aimless wandering
or groping |
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help ideas gather shape |
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eliminate need of only learning by experience |
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increase self confidence |
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train for change, innovation, and creativity |
The Stages and Ingredients of the SM-14 Method – Guide – Procedure
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Based on centuries of experience and development |
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Presented in easy-to-learn terminology – may be used in a flexible manner - in following the stages you can skip, backtrack, loop,etc. |
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Under the stages, you use creative, logical, non-logical, and technical methods or processes to actually achieve results. |
STAGES & INGREDIENTS OF SM-14
(for the Complete Method of Problem solving & Decision Making)
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PART I
Orgination to Hypothesis |
PART II
Challenge to Suspend Judgement |
Curious Observation
Is There a Problem?
Goals & Planning
Search, Explore, & Gather the Evidence
Generate Creative & Logical Alternative Solutions
Evaluate the Evidence
Make the Educated Guess (Hypothesis)
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Challenge the Hypothesis
Reach a Conclusion
Suspend Judgement
PART III
Take Action
PART IV
Supporting Ingredients
Creative, Non-Logical, Logical, & Technical Methods
Procedural Principles & Theories
Attributes & Thinking Skills
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