You are invited to check out and comment on systematic problem solving
by reading the webpage
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/canmor/pros01.htm
Please advise
your view of the strength of the method shown, the tranferability,
and if someone else published the detailed, step by step approach.
Comments will be fed back to readers of this list.
Innovation as a result of problem definition and solving has been under
research at many places in the world. Germany (East and West) and Russia
were especially effective in research. Nevertheless, many of their
findings were too theoretical in their approach. A different way was
through research done in the psychological field. The missing link of
practice - especially in the industrial and corporate world tended to
result in a form of creativity which produced lots of answers,
unfortunately too often of no real value.
The purpose of these three *.htm pages is to allow readers of MG-ED-DV
and MINT lists to take a glance at just one example taken from the
Creative Morphological Approach. This example shows - if you think it
through carefully - how a result is found without fail. It is impossible
not finding the solution. A real world example is also shown, using the
same method. This also shows that solutions can employ the "butterfly
effect". This means that a small change at some place can have an extreme
change at a different place.
Readers are invited to send comments to the author. These will be quoted
and reported on the same website. Especially comments as to the strength
of the single method shown are an important part of your response. The
Creative Morphological Approach is a complete system of interrelated
methodologies whose power is larger than the sum of the single methods.
Many thanks for your help in evaluating the method, and your report.
Emil Zahner
Morphological Institute Canada
email
canmor@compuserve.com
Fax 519 - 884 9052 + 884 1313