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CONTENTS OF 48-PAGE BOOKLET:
  •  The Big Picture
  •  Problem Solving and Decision Making
  •  The Decision Making Process
  •  System of Decision Making and Problem Solving
  •  Intuitive Decision Making
  •  Short Formula for Decision Making
  •  Full Model and Formula
  •  Specific Individual “Sciences”


    • STAGES AS APPLIED TO DECISION MAKING:
    1. Curious Observation
    2. Is There a Problem?
    3. Goals and Planning
    4. Search, Explore and Gather the Evidence
    5. Generate 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

  •  Group or Team Decision Making
  •  Management Decision Making Technique
  •  Managerial Decision Making
  •  Behavior Decision Making Theory
  •  Accounting for Risks Involved
  •  Decision Making under Uncertainty, Forecasting and Predicting
  •  Miscellaneous Strategies
  •  Opportunities to Use My Non-copyrighted Material
  •  Bibliography
  •  Your Guide and Worksheet
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    Full Model Formula for the Complete Method of Creative Decision Making – SM-14


    Intelligence and Knowledge as They Concern Decision Making

    It is hard to believe, especially in view of the vast amounts of intellectual thinking that has occurred in recent centuries, that no correct and full model for problem solving and decision making exists. SM-14 fills the need now.

    Reliable Knowledge of Decision Making

    Presented here are good basic principles that will help you the rest of your life. I personally spent more than 18 years in my second retirement career to intensively summarize the reliable knowledge on problem solving and decision making that others have spent years, even lifetimes, accumulating. This knowledge is yours for free. So read on for the best reliable knowledge on decision making.

    The scientific method is the master method of knowledge, problem solving, and decision making. Thus it is suitable for all domains. The SM-14 formula of 11 stages and 3 ingredients provides an easy-to-follow guide to this complete method of creative problem solving and decision making for all fields, including our personal lives. Because the scientific method has been used for centuries, there is a well-developed body of knowledge about the stages, problem-solving and decision-making techniques, procedural principles and theories, attributes and thinking skills available to help you make decisions.

    Decision Making Models Are Subject Neutral

    A guide or model formula, being subject neutral, will not solve decision problems. So, certain ingredients were recognized as necessary to use at these mental activity stages. In the SM-14 model these have been combined into three ingredients, numbered 12, 13, and 14. They are applied at all stages of mental activity to actually accomplish results.

    Here Is the Best of All Models of Decision Making

    The literature shows that thousands of model formulas have been offered for these mental activity stages. After a thorough review of the literature and selecting features from the best of them, a formula – SM-14 – is now available. It consists of 11 stages and 3 ingredients. It is complete and practical. It is long enough to cover the major stages and ingredients, but not so long as to be impractical to teach and use.

    Model: SM-14
        Stage 1 – Curious Observation
        Stage 2 – Is There a Problem?
        Stage 3 – Goals and Planning
        Stage 4 – Search, Explore, and Gather the Evidence
        Stage 5 – Generate Creative and Logical Solutions
        Stage 6 – Evaluate the Evidence
        Stage 7 – Make the Educated Guess (Hypothesis)
        Stage 8 – Challenge the Hypothesis
        Stage 9 – Reach a Conclusion
       Stage 10 – Suspend Judgment
       Stage 11 – Take Action

    SUPPORTING INGREDIENTS:
    Stage 12 – Creative, Non-logical, Logical, and Technical Methods for decisions
    Stage 13 – Procedural Principles and Theories for decisions
    Stage 14 – Attributes and Thinking Skills for decisions