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MindSights Thinklets Toolkit Example

 

As technology evolves, it is no longer as important how much you personally remember, but rather how quickly you can access the right information and right cognitive tools to help enhance your natural thinking abilities. 

 

Below is MindSights Thinklets Toolkit Main Menu. Use it to access a 575 page wikipedia-like MS Word hypertext application containing cognitive tools distilled from over 25,000 pages of information and 5 years of research.  Simply click on the blue hyperlinks to view sub-menus The [Home] button brings you back.  Note: Gray hyperlinks are not active in demo.

 

 

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2. Project Consultants (Critical Thinking Processes) critical TOCType

Like using human consultants, these virtual consultants provide you with the critical questions to ask and tools to use, all within the correct thinking sequence.

 

Project work efforts (critical thinking) in business and organizations

typically have one of the following 7 aims.

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Critical Thinking

Meeting Purpose/Aim

  1. Basic (90-minute) Problem Solving  

Resolve an urgent problem, issue or challenge.

  1. Corrective Action Problem Solving (RCA)

Fix or restore something to a past, standard or original condition.

  1. Systems Problem Solving

Resolve a complex cross-functional or organizational problem.

  1. Creativity & Innovation

Develop something new and of value that has never existed before.

  1. Improvement

Make current levels of performance better.

  1. Planning

Anticipate and prepare for future opportunities or imminent problems.

  1. Decision Making

Select a course of action among alternatives.

 

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3. Thinklets Tool Sets (Thinking Functions).addendumtools

 It’s no longer as important how much you remember … but rather how quickly you can access cognitive tools to help improve thinking performance

 

Like any manual tool, performance is based on choosing the right tool for the task-at-hand.  Find the tool you need and then consider customizing with your own knowledge.

 

1.            Observe and become aware of problems & opportunities

2.            Define and describe the problem or situation.

3.            Analyze and understand the details.

4.            Create and innovate something new or different

5.            Systems Think the whole problem or situation

6.            Tap into Subconscious thinking

7.            Decision making tools

8.            Project management tools

9.            Team thinking tools

 

Observe-It obsret

Use these tools to promote awareness of opportunities or prevent problems from arising.

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Define-It defret

Tools for gathering, filtering and organizing data into useful relevant information.

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  1. Problem (Opportunity) Statement
  2. Eye-of-the-Beholder Viewpoints
  3. Customer Observation & Analysis
  4. Mindfulness & Transformation
  5. Problem vs. Opportunity vs. Issue
  6. Delphi Technique
  7. Observing Trends and Analysis
  8. Historical Pattern Observation
  9. Product (Service) Observation and Analysis
  10. Process Improvement Observation & Analysis
  11. Individual Work Observation and Improvement
  12. Putting Problems on the Table
  13. Personal  Observation & Understanding

 

1. Basic Background Information            

2. Transient (Change) Description

3. Data Relevancy Analysis          

4. Understand Key Information

5. Data Gathering Strategy

6. Data Types

7. Data Collection Tools

8. Current Data

9. Past or Standard Data

10. Future Data

11. Non Data

12. Mind Mapping

13. Affinity Diagram

14. Pareto Chart

15. SIPOC Diagram

16. Input-Process-Output (IPO) Chart

17. Interaction & Relationships Matrix

18. Voice of the Customer

19. Value Stream Mapping (System Map)

Analyze-It anatoolret

An array of tools to achieve a detailed understanding of any problem or situation.

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Create-It creret

Tools that promote the same core qualities of creative action that creative geniuses follow.

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1. SWOT Analysis  

2. Obstacle (Gap) Analysis 

3. Root Cause Analysis Questions

4. Deviation Analysis  

5. SWOT Jump Start Survey

6. STOP (Situation-Target-Obstacle-Proposal)

7. Cause & Effect (Fishbone) Diagram 

8. Why/Because Causal Chain

9. Practical Solution - Pros & Cons Analysis

10. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

11. Run & Control Charts

12. Scatter Diagrams (Correlation Charts)

13. Histogram (Frequency) Chart

14. Data Presentation & Analysis

 

1. Basic Creativity Trigger Questions

2. Brainstorming with Note Cards

3. Idea & Solution Requirements

4. Reverse Thinking

5. Creative Focus Statement

6. Classic Group Brainstorming

7. Personal Brainstorming

8. Thinking in Analogies

9. Regular Association

10. Fantasy or Wishful Thinking

11. Worst Ideas

12. Attribute Brainstorming

13. Imaginary & Backward Thinking

14. Scenario Building

15. Assumption Reversal

Systems Thinking systoolsret

These tools look at the broader context in which the problem resides and helps determine the points at which change can have the greatest impact.

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Subconscious Thinking subret

Tools to tap into a vast reservoir of knowledge and creativity you did not know you had.

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1 Vision and Mission Statements

2. Reframe the Problem or Opportunity

3. Goal Statement Development

4. Preferred Futures Statement

5. Futures Wheel

6. Systems Think Problems or Opportunities

7. Real Problem Analysis

8. Purposes & Goals Analysis

9. Group Goal Setting (Shared Understanding)

10. Personal Goal Setting

11. Systems Feedback

12. Systems Hierarchy

1. Mind Mapping

2. Incubation

3. Personal Visioning       

4. Unclutter Your Mind to Think Better

5. Tap Your Subconscious For Ideas

6. Personal Performance Success Patterns

7. Using Your Subconscious Mind

8 Awareness Journaling

 

Decide-It dectoolsret