Technology As Innovator

Appreciation

Category: Creativity

How to use

Staring with a fact, ask the question “So what?”. Keep on asking until all possible inferences have been drawn.

Example

Fact: the scope expands and we are lacking a resource for the newly discovered functionalities.

• So what? We might need overtime to meet deadline.
• So what? We will be tired.
• So what? Moral will be affected.
• So what? More mistakes may be caused.
• So what? Product quality will be affected.
• So what? Less return from customer.
• So what? Moral even deeply sinks.
• So what? Attrition.
• So what? Chaos
• So what? To control this, shadow resources and resource backup must be planned.

Advantage

This tool helps extract maximum information from original facts. More information can be used to solve the problem.

Previous volumes of the series

1. Introduction
2. Reversal

Reversal Questions

Category: Improve, Creativity

How to use

As the opposite of the question we want to ask.

Example

You want to improve the readership of your blog.

You would ask: “What drives readers away from your blog?”

Possible answers may include:

• Use language that is hard to read
• Less SEO
• Hard navigation
• Confusing headlines
• etc.

After asking and answering such question, you have an action plan to fix and prevent failures.

Previous volumes of the series

1. Introduction

Introduction

In this series I will introduce different tools that can be used in problem solving situations.

They belong to different categories such as: creativity, understanding complex situations, decision making, planning and self-management.

I also plan to discuss how sufficient these tools are in managing tasks (products) and people (organization).