Mindmap-ProblemSolving

Mindmap-ProblemSolving

• Tools in Focus
• Problem Solving Methods
  • Problem Solving Elements
    • problems
    • analysis
    • hypotheses
    • research
    • goals
    • shortcomings
    • improvements
    • options
    • plans
    • criticism
    • results
  • IDEAL
    • Identify Problems and Opportunities
    • Define Alternative Goals
    • Explore Possible Strategies
    • Anticipate and Act
    • Look and Learn
  • Problem Solving Template
    • problems
    • analysis
    • goals
    • plans
  • How to Solve It
    • Understand the problem
    • Make a plan
    • Carry out the plan
    • Look back on your work
• Problem Solving Tools
  • general tools
    • work backwards
  • creativity tools
    • Morphological Table (Tree)
      • • …
      • …
      • • buoyancy
          • helium
          • hydrogen
          • methane
          • hot air
          • vacuum
        • stability
          • ribs
          • vertical frame
          • semi-rigid keel
          • foam filling
        • energy souce
          • kerosene
          • hydrogen
          • solar energy
          • rechargeable battery
    • Modification List
      • combine / separate
      • add / subtract
      • rearrange
      • reverse
      • single / double / multiply
      • hide / show
      • construct / deconstruct
      • maximize / minimize
      • speed up / slow down
      • trust / suspect
      • substitute
      • adapt
      • put to other uses
      • introduce / eliminate
    • Stimulus Analysis
      • Orchestra
      • Internet
      • Sailing Boats
      • Bakery
      • Eagles
      • Painting
      • Trees
      • Furniture
      • Shakespeare
      • Cinema
  • analysis tools
    • Questions: 5W2H
      • what?
      • why?
      • who?
      • where?
      • when?
      • how?
      • how many?
    • SWOT analysis
      • Strengths
      • Weaknesses
      • Opportunities
      • Threat
    • 5 Whys
      • <why? 1st=”” cause=””>
        • <why? 2nd=”” cause=””>
          • …
    • top-down analysis
    • Research
      • internet
      • libraries
      • ask experts
  • revision tools
    • shortcomings & improvements
      • shortcomings
      • improvements
    • review
• Instructions
  • Adapt this map!
  • Meaning of icons
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      • template branches
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      • info branches
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      • link to web resources
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      • details missing
  • Use text notes
  • Use full screen mode
  • Links to further sources
    • ~ Wikipedia article on Problem Solving

      ~ Wikipedia article on Creative Problem Solving

      ~ Mycoted

  • How to write documents with Freeplane
    • Write text branches
    • Apply a filter
    • Export branches to text document
• Motivate Yourself
  • quotes
    • Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out Robert Collier
    • A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
    • Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes
  • music
  • videos
• Tool Repository
  • general tools
    • PDCA
      • Plan
      • Do
      • Check
      • Act
    • Eight Disciplines Problem Solving
      • Use a Team
      • Define the Problem
      • Implement and verify Interim Actions
      • Identify and Verify Root Causes
      • Choose and verify Permanent Corrective Actions (PCAs)
      • Implement and validate PCAs
      • Prevent recurrence
      • Congratulate your Team
  • creativity tools
    • SCAMPER
      • S – Substitute
      • C – Combine
      • A – Adapt
      • M – Modify
      • P – Put to another use
      • E – Eliminate
      • R – Reverse
    • Osborn’s Checklist
      • Put to other uses? As it is?… If modified?..

        Adapt? Is there anything else like this? What does this tell you? Is the past comparable?

        Modify? Give it a new angle? Alter the colour, sound, odour, meaning, motion, and shape?

        Magnify? Can anything be added, time, frequency, height, length, strength? Can it be duplicated, multiplied or exaggerated?

        Minify? Can anything be taken away? Made smaller? Lowered? Shortened? Lightened? Omitted? Broken up?

        Substitute? Different ingredients used? Other material? Other processes? Other place? Other approach? Other tone of voice? Someone else?

        Rearrange? Swap components? Alter the pattern, sequence or layout? Change the pace or schedule? Transpose cause and effect?

        Reverse? Opposites? Backwards? Reverse roles? Change shoes? Turn tables? Turn other cheek? Transpose ‘+/-‘?

        Combine? Combine units, purposes, appeals or ideas? A blend, alloy, or an ensemble?

    • Morphological Table (text note table)
  • analysis tools
    • break problem into smaller parts
    • finding patterns
      • choose right perspective
      • spatial structures
      • boxes and their content
      • look for analogies
      • mathematical concepts
      • iterations
      • introduce auxiliary elements
      • use microscopes / macroscopes
      • hidden structures
      • consider ALL information
      • look at opposites
      • consider inversions
      • consider additions / subtractions
      • consider minimizing / maximizing
  • revision tools
    • devil’s advocate
    • write a summary
  • meta-tools
    • develop new tools
  • motivational items
    • quotes
      • A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

        It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. –- Harry Truman

        The dreamers are the saviors of the world. — James Allen

        We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson