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Solution Finding Stimulus Separate the Solution in Time

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Innovation    Solution-Focused
How to Think Differently to Drive Results Innovation Training and Development Michael Cardus (7)

Solution-Finding & Innovation Thinking is more than a set of tools. It is a different way of thinking and approaching your work. Plus, I enjoy finding and phrasing questions that break the stuckness in thinking.

Separate the Solution in Time
Thinking
  • Looking at what you want to have SOLVED, give the system one boundary at one time and another at another.
Reason
  • A system divisible in time can have different boundaries at different times. This allows you to think of a solutions bank that may change the system, causing a solution at one time and leading to outcomes at other times.
Question
  • How might you separate the system (that contains the problem you want to solve) in time to allow it to be one way at one time and a different way at another time?

This is similar to Dimensions / Time / Cost Operator

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