Strategies for Decision Making
Applying the 21 Synectics Steps
The need for thinking and problemsolving skills dominates our lives. Individuals must analyze problems in the workplace, at school, as a parent, and in many other daily situations. You have an opportunity to practice your problemsolving skills through this assignment.
Assignment: Select one problem from the following list or define your own problem.
Design a new textbook for a psychology class, science class, etc.
Invent a new telephone.
Design a new suitcase.
Design new clothes for soldier/teacher/cook/student/ etc.
Invent a new style for a video game.
Create a short story.
Design a new computer.
Invent a new way to protect computers from viruses.
Create a new type of credit card.
Work on solving a problem of your own choosing a problem that is related to your major field of study.
Remember that you don't need to create anything physically. You may use images or just descriptions of your ideas. What is important for this assignment is your ability to generate ideas.
Number your ideas 1 through 21.
Generate 21 ideas about solving it.
Please respond to EACH of the following discussion topics and submit them to the discussion forum as a single post. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length.Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students' posts. If you haven't recently, please review the
Rules of Discussion.
Take the "How Good Are Your Problem-Solving Skills?" survey:
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_72.htm
• What was your score?
• Scroll down until you see the stages of problem solving (below Figure 1: The Simplex Process)
• For which step(s) did you have the lowest score?
• Describe something you can do to improve that problem-solving skill.
• For which step(s) did you have the highest score?
• Describe a time when this problem-solving skill came in handy.
Be sure you integrate your course readings on problem solving and decision making within your work to show a good understanding of course concept.
Resource : https://www.dropbox.com/s/boxe53jvnncd4h9/assignment_w5_0.pdf?dl=0