...I have chosen the four suggested idea-generated techniques of Brainstorming, Analogy and Cross Fertilization, Futuring and TRIZ to compare. A common thread among them is to go beyond the obvious. All are designed to generate numerous possible solutions to find an acceptable outcome. The four techniques I selected might best apply in the following situations. Brainstorming – When a person is having trouble thinking of ideas a group is formed to bounce ideas off each other. An example would be a manufacturer looking for a way to increase production. The management team would form a group to generate ideas. Once an idea is out there, others in the group can either build on it or they can use that suggestion to formulate new thoughts. I think Brainstorming starts a chain reaction in everyone’s thought process. Analogy and Cross Fertilization – A few years back we had a solar eclipse that I wanted to photograph but because of the cost for the filter I would have needed, I missed the opportunity. I started looking into other areas that have to deal with bright sunlight. My thoughts started with a person being outside on a sunny day wearing sun glasses to protect their eyes. The material used on normal sunglasses would not be dark enough to look directly at the sun and therefore would burnout the sensor on my camera. Then I started thinking about how pilots deal with flying into the sun and it turned my thoughts to aviator glasses. The lens that is used on these types of glasses...
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...Problem Solving M1 Think of a recurring problem or situation in your life that you would like to resolve or manage better. Try viewing it as an ill-defined problem and redefine it. In addition, explain how incorrectly defining the problem has impacted your life and the benefits that you will derive by redefining the problem. The most recurring problem I have in my life is time management; I am not proficient in it at all. I tend to spend more time thinking about the problems I have in my everyday life and wasting time thinking about what I have to do. I got into the mindset of there’s always tomorrow. To fix this I need to stop worrying about others and what’s not important to my daily life. Ill-defining the problem can cause me to be blind to the fact of me having a major problem like this, leaving me to constantly waste my time on things not important to my life or my future. This problem can impact my future and my plans exponentially, causing me to fail my classes, stay at a dead end job, and go nowhere with my life. Redefining this issue will benefit me in many ways; I’d be able to get more sleep, allowing my brain to function at full capacity as opposed to being sluggish as it has been. More importantly it will allow me to finish my projects and school work on time, causing a ripple effect of getting good grades, and possibly a better outcome from school. This issue will not be resolved until I buckle down and make a schedule for myself, eliminating most of my goofing...
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...the grocery to a good idea for something to crochet, I can write it down. Then I will stick it where ever I am, even in the car, then I will gather my post-it notes at the end of the day and put them on my refrigerator or on my calendar. My creative abilities help me find solutions to my problems. A lot of times, trying to solve problems with traditional problem solving steps can take a long time and you may have to try different sets of steps before you finally find a solution. Using my creative ability to solve problems is so much easier. It just involves some creative thinking. It could also take a couple of tries, but if something doesn’t work out, you don’t have to start over with steps, you can just pick up where it goes wrong. There’s no specific rules or steps to creative problem solving. The creative ability I would like to improve on would be to be open and receptive to ideas. This is something I have trouble doing. If an idea doesn’t sound appealing to me right off the bat, I usually disregard it without giving it any thought. Before tossing out new ideas, I would like to start putting thought into it to figure out if it really could help me with whatever my task or problem is. Even if I need to just write it down and come back to it later to think about. I just need to give new ideas and suggestions a chance to aid in my task before disregarding...
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...Problem Solving Theory Project GS1140 08-13-2014 Antonio Pierce & Dana Jackson Thinking about a recurring problem in my life was tough, being that I’ve just closed on a home, working 45-50 hours a week as a store manager, and going to school , are all their own problems in themselves. The common denominator in all three of these life altering events would be time allocation. Given 24 hours, I have to figure out the best way to divide every single step throughout the day, for the next couple of years to be beneficial to myself as well as my household. My morals or ethics come down to family being the most important in my life. I need correct time allocation to not only help handle the day to day responsibilities that come from caring for my first household. But also satisfying the time spent with my girlfriend in .the same process. This causes a severe split between job and school as well. I need to work in order to provide my half of the bills and relationship spending. But also need school to further advance in my career and make a better living. As the saying goes “Work smarter not harder”. With a better education I can advance to make money as well as work less to satisfy my home and relationship needs. At first I thought the problem was I was doing too much at one time. The real problem is “How to create more time to allocate to my responsibilities simultaneously”. Incorrect time management could possibly lead into failures in my relationship, foreclosure on my home...
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...Jacob Binkley Problem Solving Module 3 Analysis Futuring Exercises Making a telephone call in the year 2020 I see people in the year 2020 using telephone to make calls in new ways. By that year, I expect people to completely redesign the hardware and interface of cellphones. I see the physical devices being reduced to projection instruments placed in certain devices, like a wristband, that projects the user interface onto the subjects arm. The user could the control the device with voice commands or physically touching the area the image is displayed. This would allow devices to be used while swimming or any situation that involves water. I also see them beginning to tweak the software that Stephen Hawking uses to control his computer, and implementing it into cellular devices. This would allow people with physical disabilities to use and operate a cell phone by subtle gestures of the face, eyes, and neck. This would give them the ability to communicate with words if they cannot already. Eating a family meal in 2050 I see families in 2050 eating and enjoying healthy, natural, and organic foods. I see todays American youth realizing how unhealthy we are as a society, and how malnourished our foods actually are. They will realize the things we can do to take care of our bodies, and the benefits of healthy eating. Todays youth is tomorrows parents and leaders, and they will change the ways of American society very drastically as soon as they take power. I see them starting...
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...attaining industry success which directly relate to the economic development of a country as well as the global economy. In such a relationship, entrepreneurship with innovation is the major driving force behind the sustainable economic development and thus, entrepreneurs play the key role in manipulating the factors of production that include land, labour, capital and also the natural resources (Econlowdown, n.d.) to cause economic growth. In short, entrepreneurship contributes to the economic performances by introducing innovations, effectively allocating resources and creating changes. Hence, the aim of this essay is to discuss the nexus of entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development as well as the role that creativity and problem solving play in this relationship. From the business point of view, entrepreneurship is referred to the capacity and willingness to develop, organise and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make profit by using the factors of production (BusinessDictionary.com, n.d.). Clearly, entrepreneurs are the people with particular characteristics and traits of behaviours whereas entrepreneurship is the result of what entrepreneurs do and refers to events and their economic impact (Lumsdaine and Binks, 2006). Innovation on the other hand is one of the key tools that could assist entrepreneurs to effectively realise the market opportunities that leads to a sustainable economic development. New ideas that add value to a...
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...Title of Work: Discuss the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development. What role if any do creativity and problem solving play in this relationship? Refer to both theory and examples from the business world to support your discussion COPY 1 TITLE OF MODULE: Entrepreneurship and Business (N11440 MY) Title of Work: Discuss the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development. What role if any do creativity and problem solving play in this relationship? Refer to both theory and examples from the business world to support your discussion COPY 2 Austrian writer, professor, management consultant and self-described “social ecologist,” Peter F. Drucker once said “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” (BrainyQuote, 2014) This essay aims to show how innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development are all linked together as shown in the statement above. Even though many a time the spotlight has been shined on entrepreneurship as the propellant towards success, there are still many factors that have to be taken into account such as creativity and problem solving skills. These all shall be the foundation of this particular essay. Entrepreneurs were first introduced by Richard Cantillon (1697-1734)...
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...In this essay, it would be found out that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development is a multidirectional cycle, which means that they affect each other in two directions. From one direction, when there is a problem entrepreneurs would use innovation which comes from creativity to solve it by entrepreneurship. Innovation deliveries new industries or get exist industries developed and both of those actions will lead economic to develop. The births of new industries encourage people with entrepreneurship to organize new economics. From the other direction, the development of economic absorbs new investments. Those investments include not only labour, land and capital, but also innovation which can improve the new good or service. The development in new industry can also offer money or other capital to encourage people with creativity to innovate. Innovation can be protected by entrepreneurship because it relies on innovation. As Thomson Edison* said, his inventions were from seeing a worthwhile need to be met and trailed after it until it came. So it can be seen as innovations are from solving problem and creativity. As an entrepreneur, spotting a problem and turn it into opportunity by creativity is called entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship sets innovation to processing first and then gets profits from economic development. As Bolton and Thompson (2000) has recognized, entrepreneurship is about change and innovation. So every entrepreneurs...
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...psychological research has made towards our understanding of how children from birth to five learn and develop competencies in the processes of observation, problem solving, exploration, experimentation and prediction, thinking and decision making. Introduction The aim of this essay is to evaluate the developmental theories of ‘Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy’ (PSRN) and an ‘Exploration and Investigation’ aspect of ‘Knowledge and Understanding of the World’ (KUW) in Foundation stage children. This essay will explore Piaget and Vygotsky and their points of view on PSRN and issues which arise from development and it will consider current research and documents relevant to practice and the implications and recommendations for early years practice. Furthermore key concepts of emergent numeracy, mark making, counting and number development will be explored. The skills of observation, problem solving, exploration, experimentation and prediction, thinking and decision making fall into all six aspects of children’s learning and development and these skills led themselves to science and teaching as well as PSRN on which this essay is going to focus on. Theoretical approaches Piaget’s constructivist theory saw children as actively constructing their knowledge of the world, for themselves, and as being active seekers of solutions to problems (Martin 2007). It could be agreed as practitioners acknowledge the importance of child-led activity as being essential for meaningful learning and...
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...Gifted Education International 1993 Vol. 9, pp. 68-77 © 1993 A B Academic Publishers C. June Maker, The University of Arizona, USA creativity, intelligence, and problem solving: a defmition and design for cross-cultural research and measurement related to giftedness Abstract A new definition of giftedness is proposed based on a review of the constructs of intelligence, creativity, and problem solving. A research design employed in a series of studi~s of giftedness in children and adults is presented, along w1th a summary of important results. Finally, implications of the design for both research and practice are outlined. Intelligence A central concept in many theories and definitions of intelligence is solving problems or adaptation to one's environment. Although the phrase "problem solving" is not always found, the concept of "adaptation" or "ability to adapt", a central concept in many definitions (Binet & Simon, 1909 (cited in Terman, 1916); Boynton, 1933; Colvin, 1921; French, 1962; Piaget, 1981; Pintner, 1921; Stern, 1914; Wechsler, 1941 ), implies that individuals encounter situations (problems) to which they must devise ways of reacting. Thus, they are solving problems. Later theorists and researchers revised these general concepts of "adaptation" by adding the idea of adapting to the cultural as well as the biological environment (Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, 1982_; Goodnow, 1976; Charlesworth, 1976; Olson, 1976; Ne1sser...
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...The problems managers have to face when managing team and the solutions. Currently, business has changed into a global-competition. The competition between organizations became more competitive because there is no longer competition within a country. It is a duty for the leaders of each organization to survive in this environment. David Maister (1997) mentioned that a great manager is expected to lead the team or a firm through complex situations and must influence the whole organization rather than use power to control members. Moreover, manager supposed to motivate, encourage enthusiasm and create the participation environment for team members. Brian Dive (2008) stated that manager should ensure all members of a team meet all theirs needs, and if not, find the solutions to meet all the requirements. In the same way, manager should secure the relevant commitments toward a goal from team members. More importantly, manager is expected to be able to provide the solutions to difficult and complex circumstances. However, being an effective manager has to handle with a problems during a job such as a relation between manager and subordinate, some manager might fail to do what they are expected to do. Famous business leaders, and academic professor in management science are putting efforts through the experiments and experiences to find out the causes of the management failure and the solution to prevent the problems occur in the future. Although those management theories might be...
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...PSY/315 March 4, 2013 Chapter 4 Practice Problems (11) List the five steps of hypothesis testing, and explained the procedure and logic of each. 1) Restate the research question; specify the null theory about the populations. State the null theory and the alternate theory Null: Ho: Alteration: Ha: 2) Determine the features of the compared distribution. Define the level of significance, using type 1 errors; identify sample size using data and resources that are available. 3) Define the region cutoff sample score. Identify the test statistics and sampling distributions. 4) Determine the sample’s score on the comparison distribution. Collect any data and compute the statistics test to find p -value 5) Select the appropriate theory. Classify the p-value and identify whether not to reject the null theory. Summarize the results and give a clear comprehensive solution towards the underline problem. (14) Based on the information given for each of the following studies; decide whether to reject the null hypothesis. For each, give (a) the Z- score cutoff (or cutoffs) on the comparison distribution at which the null hypothesis should be rejected (b) the Z score on the comparison distribution for the sample score and (c) your conclusion. Assume that all populations are normally distributed. Study A-D mean population = 5 Standard deviation = 1 Sample score = 7 P = study A&B =.05 P = study C&D = .01 Tails of this study a = 1(high prediction) Study...
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...class is to actually understand the material because in high school I did not and I barely passed my math classes. This year I actually want to understand what is going on. I was able to achieved my goal by the helped of my classmate and also our instructor. Learn creative problem-solving skills and techniques. Also, a discussion on the process and theory behind powerful problem solving and creative thinking. When you are problem solving you are doing one of two things. Either you are fixing something that is broken, or you are building something. If you are building something, it could be a completely new something, or it could be an improved something. Read on to discover how to do these effectively. Some people are naturally good at problem solving. Others are not (yet). Most are somewhere in between. A lot of people underestimate just how good they are at problem solving. Many don't realize just how much problem solving they actually do. Problems are all around us and we solve them all the time, be it something as simple...
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...person to find errors and question what they have found so eventually they can either solve the problem or find new ideas about the problem. 2.) Grace, accident, association, cognitive, and personality perspectives are consistent with each other because they are all some sort of action. With grace, creativity is something that occurs naturally to you, while creativity by accident is something you do by accident. Creativity by association happens because one connects two points together and cognitive creativity happens when one gains empirical knowledge on a subject and is able to form their own ideas from it through deep thought. Creativity through personality is something that can be learned through practice. 3.) Cognitive creativity is a process when one thinks of ideas or solves problems through their deep thought of a subject. The index metaphor takes this approach deeper by using “creative problem-solving aids to help ideas emerge” (Greenberg 2013). The creative problem-solving aid that is referred is using a collection of deep thoughts and forming them into a mental book. One will then refer back to this mental book to compare the ideas they have at the moment to new ideas they formed. 4.) Divergent thinking involves searching for an answer to a problem that can have many solutions. Convergent thinking involves the opposite which is finding a unique solution to a problem. The two...
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...Defining the Learning Environment Sheneka N. Revis Dr. Patricia Engelman EDU 500 Adult Learning Theory May 4, 2014 As operating manager over Open Season University’s Instructors, I was assigned the task of conducting a certification class for all active Instructors next month. This is a voluntary training that can offer each Instructor higher pay upon completion. Open Season University is located in the mountain area of Asheville, North Carolina. Our institution is an enrichment program that will assist individuals in achieving success. We believe it is imperative to operate as the driving force that encourages students to strive for excellence while instilling within them the desire to become life-long learners. Our primary purpose is to motivate our students to establish a love of learning in order to walk confidently into learning on their own. Open Season University’s educational platform is unlike any other. As an alternative to inertly obtaining lessons from teachers or tutors, Open University’s students keenly cultivate self-learning capabilities. Each student progresses at their own pace through a customized package of worksheets judiciously arranged by the instructor. Daily coursework is completed for each subject at the university and the remainder is completed at home. Once a student is able to complete coursework without error, an assignment is considered complete. This method of educating allows a student to “possess” what they know and enter the next...
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