Lateral thinking Third Edition
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which do you own? How do we accomplish our long range Lateral thinking goals? How important is the completion of a recognized college or graduate-level degree program in the hiring decision? What management system can we use to leverage the Lateral thinking experience, ideas, and concerns of the people closest to the work to be done? What happens if you do not have enough funding?
This extraordinary Lateral thinking self-assessment will make you the established Lateral thinking domain expert by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Lateral thinking challenge.
How do I reduce the effort in the Lateral thinking work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Lateral thinking task and that every Lateral thinking outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Lateral thinking costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Lateral thinking advice instantly with structured going-forward plans?
There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Lateral thinking essentials are covered, from every angle: the Lateral thinking self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Lateral thinking outcomes are achieved.
Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Lateral thinking practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Lateral thinking are maximized with professional results.
Your purchase includes access details to the Lateral thinking self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
- The latest quick edition of the book in PDF
- The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
- In-depth and specific Lateral thinking Checklists
- Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation
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Lateral thinking Third Edition - Gerardus Blokdyk
Lateral thinking
Complete Self-Assessment Guide
The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on Lateral thinking best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management. The guidance is also based on the professional judgment of the individual collaborators listed in the Acknowledgments.
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Acknowledgments
This checklist was developed under the auspices of The Art of Service, chaired by Gerardus Blokdyk.
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You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
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•The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and...
•Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
•In-depth specific Checklists covering the topic
•Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation
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Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Lateral thinking, based on best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management.
It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the Self-Assessment.
The criteria of requirements and elements of Lateral thinking have been rephrased in the format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring system, as explained in this document.
In this format, even with limited background knowledge of Lateral thinking, a manager can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.
How to use the Self-Assessment
On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your Lateral thinking initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in standards.
To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to enter a score on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘5’.
1 Strongly Disagree
2 Disagree
3 Neutral
4 Agree
5 Strongly Agree
Read the question and rate it with the following in front of mind:
‘In my belief,
the answer to this question is clearly defined’.
There are two ways in which you can choose to interpret this statement;
1.how aware are you that the answer to the question is clearly defined
2.for more in-depth analysis you can choose to gather evidence and confirm the answer to the question. This obviously will take more time, most Self-Assessment users opt for the first way to interpret the question and dig deeper later on based on the outcome of the overall Self-Assessment.
A score of ‘1’ would mean that the answer is not clear at all, where a ‘5’ would mean the answer is crystal clear and defined. Leave emtpy when the question is not applicable or you don’t want to answer it, you can skip it without affecting your score. Write your score in the space provided.
After you have responded to all the appropriate statements in each section, compute your average score for that section, using the formula provided, and round to the nearest tenth. Then transfer to the corresponding spoke in the Lateral thinking Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed Lateral thinking