The Importance of the Supporting Ingredients in SM-14

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* Guide & Worksheet for Applying the Complete Method of Creative Problem Solving & Decision Making (SM-14)
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CONTENTS OF 48-PAGE GUIDE
> What This Guide Can Do for You
> What Is Problem Solving?
> An Overview of Problem Solving
> Lessons on the Basic Theories of the Scientific Method of Problem Solving
> Use of Intuition
> Short Model Formula, SM-4
> Full Model Formula, SM-14
> The Various Organized & Little Sciences of Problem Solving
> Importance of Supporting Ingredients
> Review of the Basic Theory of the Scientific Method of Problem Solving

STEPS OR STAGES of the SCIENTIFIC METHOD of PROBLEM SOLVING - two pages on each
1.  Curious Observation
2.  Is There a Problem?
3.  Goals & Planning
4.  Search, Explore, & Gather the Evidence
5.  Generative Creative & Logical Alternative Solutions
6.  Evaluate the Evidence
7.  Make the Educated Guess (Hypothesis)
8.  Challenge the Hypothesis
9.  Reach a Conclusion 10.  Suspend Judgment
11.  Take Action

Supporting Ingredients
12.  Creative, Non-logical, Logical, & Technical Methods
13.  Procedural Principles & Theories
14.  Attributes & Thinking Skills

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The Scientific Method of Problem Solving Is a System & a Science

The Eleven Steps or Stages of SM-14 Problem Solving Method

A big advance in the art of problem solving was SM-14, providing an advanced problem solving model formula that included an accurate formula for the steps or stages of problem solving and three supporting ingredients. Complex problem involves many other features than just the steps or stages. Most authors present these other features in separate comments, if at all.

SM-14 Includes

3 Supporting Ingredients
With the 11 Steps or Stages These Tie Everything Together
into an Accurate Model of the System and Science
of the Scientific Method of Problem Solving

Advance Problem Solving - SM-14 Problem Solving Model

My superior model formula for the steps and stages of problem solving when supplemented with the three supporting ingredients makes SM-14 the most advanced problem solving model formula ever devised. There is nothing new about the elements, but the accuracy of the step or stage and ingredients combination marks a historic advancement in the art of problem solving.

What Makes Science a System?

Science and the scientific method system brought the world out of the dark ages into the age of enlightenment. It has resulted in the great advances in reliable knowledge and technology that brought us our present prosperity and improved welfare. SM-14 combines the supporting elements of the scientific system into the following three ingredients:

Ingredient #12 - Creative, Non-Logical, Logical, & Technical Methods
Ingredient #13 - Procedural Principles and Theories
Ingredient #14 - Attributes and Thinking Skills

Each supporting ingredient is described in two pages in the ingredients sections that follow Step #11 in the presentation coming up.

Every Domain Has Its Specific Methods

The presentation here of the complete method of creative problem solving is a general one for all domains. But remember in the art of problem solving each domain has methods and ingredients that are specific to it.