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Lateral Thinking, Student - Coggle Diagram

- - - - To become Creative
        
        block
        normal channels
        
        cut across patterns
        in a self-organizing information system
  - - - mental operations can be described
        
        The creative process is a natural process
        
        People possess preferences for different mental operations
        
        Cognitive Style
        
        people possess different preferences for the mental operations associated with creative problem solving.
- - - - Root Cause Analysis Technique - Five Why’s
        
        Five Why's refers to the practice of asking, five times, why the problem exists in order to get to the root cause of the problem
    - - Six Thinking Hats
        
        Benefits and Use
        
        Used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives
        
        Helps to force one to move outside the habitual thinking style, and help to get a more rounded view of a situation.
        
        blocking the confrontations that happen when people with different thinking styles discuss the same problem.
        
        Black Hat
        
        look at all the bad points of the decision. Look at it cautiously and defensively.
        
        Try to see why it might not work. This is important because it highlights the weak points in a plan.
        
        Black Hat thinking helps to make your plans 'tougher' and more resilient.
        
        Yellow Hat
        
        helps you to think positively. optimistic viewpoint that helps you to see all the benefits of the decision and the value in it.
        
        helps you to keep going when everything looks gloomy and difficult.
        
        Red Hat
        
        look at problems using intuition, gut reaction, and emotion.
        
        Try to understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.
        
        Green Hat
        
        This is where you can develop creative solutions to a problem.
        
        It is a freewheeling way of thinking, in which there is little criticism of ideas.
        
        White Hat
        
        -Look for gaps in your knowledge, and either try to fill them or take account of them.
        
        -This is where you analyze past trends, and try to extrapolate from historical data.
        
        Blue Hat
        
        When running into difficulties because ideas are running dry, they may direct activity into Green Hat thinking.
        
        stands for process control.
  - - - Where
        
        Where does this problem occur? Where does this problem have an impact?
      - When
        
        When does this problem occur? When did this problem first start occurring?
      - Why
        
        Why is this problem occurring? Why? Why?
      - How
        
        How should the process or system work? How are people currently handling the problem?
      - Who
        
        Who is causing the problem? Who says this is a problem? Who are impacted by this problem?
      - What
        
        What will happen if this problem is not solved? What are the symptoms? What are the impacts?
- - - - Enjoys exploring the problem space.
      - Likes to examine the details associated with the challenge.
      - Likes to make sure he or she has a clear understanding of the problem.
      - Prefers a methodical approach to problem solving.
      - Likes to gather information.
      - May suffer from ‘analysis paralysis’
    - - Likes to gather information.
      - Enjoys researching ideas.
      - Likes to focus on the details.
      - Tends to think and solve problems in a structures way.
      - May over analyze a situation.
    - - Likes to look at the big pictures.
      - Enjoys toying with ideas and possibilities.
      - Likes to stretch his or her imagination.
      - Enjoys thinking in more global and abstract terms.
      - May take a more intuitive approach to problem solving.
      - May overlook the details.
    - - Enjoys putting together workable solutions.
      - Likes to examine the pluses and minuses of an idea.
      - Likes to compare competing solutions.
      - Enjoys thinking about, and planning, the steps to implement an idea.
      - Enjoys analyzing potential solutions.
      - Can get stuck in developing the perfect soluition.
    - - Likes to see things happen.
      - Enjoys giving structure to ideas so that they can become a reality.
      - Enjoys seeing ideas come to fruition.
      - Likes to focus on ideas and solutions that he or she feels are workable.
      - Likes the ‘Nike’ approach to problem solving (i.e., ‘Just do it’).
      - May leap to action too quickly.
- - - - methods of thinking concerned with changing concepts and perception.