Synthesis.
What does yours look like?
After all of the problem finding and framing, the data collection and parsing, the iterations and the incubation comes the big insight. But how exactly did you get there?
Moving up Ackoff's knowledge pyramid is arduous work. Dissecting the process seems to destroy any hope of finding any definitive structure or element that defines the actual synthesis when shifting from one stage into the next.The insight comes into view not because you're following a particular critical thinking methodology, but because you're doing something.
Critical thinking methods are important for that reason alone. The make you think about your data in a very structured way. They can't actually lead you to the insight, the methods just keep your thinking agile and focused so that you'll be able to recognize and act on an idea when it does finally flash before your minds eye.
What does yours look like?
After all of the problem finding and framing, the data collection and parsing, the iterations and the incubation comes the big insight. But how exactly did you get there?
Moving up Ackoff's knowledge pyramid is arduous work. Dissecting the process seems to destroy any hope of finding any definitive structure or element that defines the actual synthesis when shifting from one stage into the next.The insight comes into view not because you're following a particular critical thinking methodology, but because you're doing something.
Critical thinking methods are important for that reason alone. The make you think about your data in a very structured way. They can't actually lead you to the insight, the methods just keep your thinking agile and focused so that you'll be able to recognize and act on an idea when it does finally flash before your minds eye.
