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Toolbox 4: Holistic

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The trick to using this ‘all-in-one’ approach is, as Chapter 11 explains, is to use each method as a different lens. We can thus switch back and fore between lenses to get a broad and stereoscopic picture, which is at least an order of magnitude better than the monochromic results of using a single technique or viewpoint.

The formula is thus:

NOT: Analytic or Simple science or TRIZ or Creative

BUT: Analytic and Simple science and TRIZ and Creative

Additional tools described are:

12. The TAO Design Process

• 12.1. The TAO Process
  • 12.1.1. TAO Spiral: Exploring
  • 12.1.2. TAO Spiral: Prospecting
  • 12.1.3. TAO Spiral: Digging
  • 12.1.4. TAO Spiral: Extracting
  • 12.1.5. TAO Spiral: Refining
• 12.2. Not OR but AND
• 12.3. The Scientific Track
• 12.4. The Analytic Sequence
  • 12.4.1. Analytic: Identification
  • 12.4.2. Analytic: Requirement
  • 12.4.3. Analytic: Analysis
  • 12.4.4. Analytic: Hypothesis
  • 12.4.5. Analytic: Proof
• 12.5. The TRIZ Sequence
  • 12.5.1. TRIZ: Problem
  • 12.5.2. TRIZ: Function
  • 12.5.3. TRIZ: Ideality
  • 12.5.4. TRIZ: Contradiction
  • 12.5.5. TRIZ: Principles
• 12.6. The Logic Cloud
• 12.7. Psychological Track
• 12.8. The Dream Sequence
  • 12.8.1. Dreaming: Fantasy (Make a Big Wish)
  • 12.8.2. Dreaming: Fiction (The Dream)
  • 12.8.3. Dreaming: Possibility (Daydream)
  • 12.8.4. Dreaming: Actuality (Plan)
  • 12.8.5. Dreaming: Reality (Persist)
• 12.9. The Creative Cloud

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