http://www.sitsite.com/blog/2009/05/do-we-really-need-inventive-thinking-tools/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:20:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.sitsite.com/blog/2009/05/do-we-really-need-inventive-thinking-tools/#comment-394 Fabian Szulanski Mon, 25 May 2009 11:49:29 +0000 http://www.sitsite.com/blog/?p=169#comment-394 It looks like the Schröedinger Paradox: Before opening the bag one cannot say if the cat is alive or not. But after you open it, you can tell very easily. After living the situation and having solved the problem, you can more easily "Oh, sure, I've applied SIT tools, or not". The usefulness of knowing the tools is that of knowledge transfer to new and isomorphic situations. For example, if you happen to unfortunately sink a laptop into water and have your screen become useless, you'd probably would have an initial -SIT Tools nurtured- pattern for helping solving that new problem. The value of this is that you would probably save some time and stress following a pattern rather than embrace chaos withouth nothing at hand. In closing, we don't really nead them, as people have been solving problems in creative ways for centuries before SIT was invented, but SIT tools are very useful and have a high intrinsic value. Cheers! Fabian It looks like the Schröedinger Paradox: Before opening the bag one cannot say if the cat is alive or not. But after you open it, you can tell very easily. After living the situation and having solved the problem, you can more easily “Oh, sure, I’ve applied SIT tools, or not”. The usefulness of knowing the tools is that of knowledge transfer to new and isomorphic situations. For example, if you happen to unfortunately sink a laptop into water and have your screen become useless, you’d probably would have an initial -SIT Tools nurtured- pattern for helping solving that new problem. The value of this is that you would probably save some time and stress following a pattern rather than embrace chaos withouth nothing at hand. In closing, we don’t really nead them, as people have been solving problems in creative ways for centuries before SIT was invented, but SIT tools are very useful and have a high intrinsic value.
Cheers!
Fabian

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