Broadening Problem-Solving Skills

As a professional technologist, have you ever been invited to serve on one of your company’s ad hoc problem-solving teams? Do you have the brainstorming skills to be effective on such a team? Many technological and business issues arise in companies and spur management to assemble temporary teams of recognized problem solvers to brainstorm a given issue and produce as many solution concepts as possible in a brief period. If you saw the following ad could you respond with confidence?

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Wanted * * * * * * * * * * * * *

* Creative technologists with experience in invention *

* Include a list of your patents in resume *

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If not, you could by learning unified structured inventive thinking (USIT).

Expand your problem-solving skills and your value to a company as a reliable innovator in problems of all types.

Learn how to create unusual thinking paths by

· reducing a problem to its generic essence;

· rapidly analyzing it in terms of interacting objects, their attributes and the functions they support at metaphorical points of contact;

· minimizing the number of objects in order to isolate individual problems;

· finding plausible root causes;

· finding unusual insights and converting these into new thought paths engaging both brain hemispheres; and

· finding multiple solution concepts through a variety of graphic metaphors.

This is the pre-engineering phase of problem solving where rapid brainstorming produces solution concepts from a variety of heuristics (mental problem-solving devices). Mathematics and technical specifications are not required in this phase.

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