Many years ago I came across a well developed highly rational problem
solving process, KEPNER-TREGOE, in which you ask yourself or your group a
series of questions to examine the problem and the resulting solutions.
What is it?
What is it not?
When does it happen?
When does it not happen?
The intent of this week's Challenge is to strengthen your converging skills
to be able to apply them divergently when you are working on a problem.
Using the traditional Who, What, When, Where, Why, How system each day
write questions for 15 minutes that may help you examine a problem or
solution more thoroughly.
Each day choose a different one of the WWWWWH question starters.
Then for 15 to 20 minutes write as many questions sparked by that starter
as you can.
I.E.:
- Who did it?
- Who does it?
- Who hasn't done it?
- Who would never do it?
- Who has done it that we don't know have done it?
At the end of the week accumulate all your questions and make a mini-poster
out of them to use on future problems and solutions when you need to test
them out.
Please share your results with the list or me directly.
I will gladly collect them and send out the total list to all those who
submit their's.
Have a creative week.
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