The Thinker's Toolkit, 2nd Ed.
14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving
Publisher: Three Rivers, 1998
ISBN: 0-8129-2808-3
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- Part One: Why We Go Astray
- Thinking About Thinking
- Insights into Problem Solving
- Part Two: The Fourteen Tools
- Problem Restatement
- Pros-Cons-and-Fixes
- Divergent/Convergent Thinking
- Sorting, Chronologies, and Time Lines
- Casual Flow Diagramming
- The Matrix
- The Decision/Event Tree
- Weighted Ranking
- Hypothesis Testing
- Devil's Advocacy
- The Probability Tree
- The Utility Tree
- The Utility Matrix
- Advanced Utility Analysis
- Part Three: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Your Next Steps