From Now On
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Vol 11|No 1|September|2001 | |
The lumber and the cement required for this job were too large and heavy a pile for my Volkswagon Jetta's small trunk, so I had the pile delivered by a very large truck that carried its own fork lift. The driver skillfully lifted my pile from the truck and left the pile close to the project site. Technology at its best! When preparing a good new idea, we must also go on shopping trips to find the main ingredients and key elements of our final proposal. We may find them in their raw, unfinished forms, but the building of ideas requires collecting, piling, sorting and storing information in ways that it can be synthesized later to create the good new proposal. Are there times we would welcome an information delivery or a fork lift? Yes, indeed. But much depends upon our ability to order just what we need. There's not much to be gained by someone dropping off a mountain when we need highly select, very pertinent information. Page 6 1. Looking for Plans & Conventional Wisdom 2. Adapting the Plans to Local Conditions 3. Collecting the Elements 4. Digging 5. Resting 6. Assembling and Cementing 7. Foundation Work 8. Assembly 9. Learning New Skills 10. Synthesis 11. Considering Context 12. More Assembly 13. Combination 14. Revision 15. Completion? 16. Extension? 17. Synthesis 18. Two More Sections 19. SCAMPER 20. Wondering 21. Looking Around 22. Growing the Idea |
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