Improve problem solving skills by reading these free articles about problem solving techniques, tools, and problem-oriented thinking. From defining the real problem to success in fixing.

Featured Busy Learner Tools

Don't miss out on our helpcards and books to help you learn to enhance your career, manage employees and provide better customer service.

Top : Problem Solving Skills and Techniques : Page 3

Free Workplace Articles Library - over 2,100 online : Problem Solving Skills and Techniques

A New Paradigm for Creative Problem Solving: Six-Box Scheme in USIT

By Toru Nakagawa - The 'Four-Box Scheme' of problem solving has long been regarded as a standard in TRIZ. A new 'Six-Box Scheme' is proposed and compared to the old. (Added: 16-Jan-2007 Hits: 801 )

Problem Solving Strategies

By Steven Gilman - What could you use a few good problem solving strategies for? New ideas for your business, perhaps. New ways to deal with your children. To come up with different approaches to building things, writing stories, or finding a job. Whatever the purpose, here are a couple powerful problem solving strategies. (Added: 12-Dec-2006 Hits: 1742 )

Multi-level Problem Solving

By Gregory Frenklach - Multi-level Problem Solving (MPS) is different from TRIZ despite the heavy TRIZ influence. The MPS is a skeleton of short algorithms, forming the basis for future discussion and development. (Added: 16-Jan-2007 Hits: 1170 )

Brainstorming - Generating Many Radical Ideas - Mind Tools

By NA - Brainstorming is an excellent way of developing many creative solutions to a problem. It works by focusing on a problem, and then coming up with very many radical solutions to it. Ideas should deliberately be as broad and odd as possible, and should be developed as fast as possible. Brainstorming is a lateral thinking process (see the introduction to this chapter for further information) - it is designed to help you break out of your thinking patterns into new ways of looking at things. (Added: 4-Aug-2003 Hits: 2571 )

Problem Solving Theory - Newell & Simon

By NA - The General Problem Solver (GPS) was a theory of human problem solving stated in the form of a simulation program (Ernst & Newell, 1969; Newell & Simon, 1972). This program and the associated theoretical framework had a significant impact on the subsequent direction of cognitive psychology. It also introduced the use of productions as a method for specifying cognitive models. The theoretical framework was information processing and attempted to explain all behavior as a function of memory operations, control processes and rules (Added: 5-Aug-2003 Hits: 3908 )

DO IT - A Simple Creativity Process - Creative Techniques from Mind Tools

By n a - This article helps you to use this simple process for defining problems. 'DO IT' will help you to get the best out of the creativity techniques. (Added: 16-Jan-2007 Hits: 882 )

Previous Listing 6 More Articles 6

	Main Page	Articles by Robert Bacal	Learning Tools For Busy People	Reprint Our Articles	All Free	Giving The Business To Social Media
	Leadership	Customer Service	Conflict	Small Business	Training & Dev.	Performance Mgmt.	Communication	Planning
Bacal & Associates - Meeting your learning needs for almost two decades