Thursday, October 02, 2008

A Thinking Tool

Eliyahu M. Goldratt's claim (to fame) is his scientific Thinking Processes that have helped solve some permanent problems of business (and day-to-day life as well).

An incredible innovation indeed!

It might be useful to develop expertise is using the primary thinking processes - Current Reality Tree, Evaporating Cloud, Core Conflict Cloud, Future Reality Tree, Negative Branch Reservations, Positive Reinforcement Loop, Prerequisite Tree, Transition Tree, Strategy & Tactics.

Would a software help?

Ivan Appel thinks so! He is working on jThinker - an open-source tool for visual flowcharting of thinking processes.

Subscribe to jThinker announces mailing list, that is going to be released "very, very soon!"