Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 651.74
EAN: 9781555611422
ISBN: 1555611427
Label: Da Capo Press
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 1997-07-21
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Studio: Da Capo Press

Problem Solved!

Uses your favorite top-drawer tool—the Post-it® Note. Great for individuals, great for groups—large or small.

Problems come in all shapes and sizes, yet most have common characteristics that can be addressed with the techniques found in this book. Rapid Problem-Solving with Post-it® Notes shows you how to use six types of techniques:

The Post-up—Provides methods for getting information into chunks
The Swap Sort—Shows listing and organization methods
The Top-down Tree—Works when the nature of the problem is unknown
The Information Map—Maps messy problems and complex relationships
The Action Map—Plans actions or maps an existing process
More than 70 diagrams and examples for solving everyday problems.

This refreshing book reminds us the simplest ideas are often the most effective.

Solve problems, create solutions and find answers fast—all with the help of Post-it® Notes. Tens of millions of Post-it® Notes users can now learn how to do far more with these great little tools. Post-it® Notes can be used to help solve difficult problems because they:

Are the right size to hold one piece of information from a problem Are easily to attached to flat surfaces and stay put Can be moved and reattached many times

Customer Rating:
Summary: A simple but very practical book
Comment: Be frank I just read this book one time few years ago and never used the methods mentioned. One of the reasons is that I packed the book somewhere...But I assure all buyers that you will find the tools are simple and can be used quickly. There are no difficult mathematic (or should be very few computations are needed) but almost work as 'common sense' approach. Since post-it or similar products can be acquired almost in all offices, so you can try it out by yourself, or with your colleague (friends and family) almost immediately. I believe its power is that you can use the tools to communicate with others. After all, to solve a problem needs good thinking and also consensus. Buy and use it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Very Light Reading
Comment: I'm a big fan of using rapid prototyping in a variety of ways - from everything from designing software products to building consensus in meetings and setting priorities. There was nothing new in this book that a smart person with the general idea wouldn't be able to come up with on their own. There is a lot of white space in the book and many rudimentary ideas are explained in painful detail. No case studies and really only one application (building consensus and prioritization in meetings). The contents of the book might be better contained in a five page pamphlet.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A quick way to organise your ever flowing thoughts.
Comment: This is a great book to manage and organise big or little thoughts of yours onto Post-It notes. Then attempts to show you how to put this in some sense of order that helps you to get the job done. Wheither "that" is for study of a project or what is the next step in perhaps for the next family picnic that's coming up very soon.

Basically the book is divided into 3 parts. The first one talks about what is problem solving or how it works if you are not sure or familiar with this. Second part shows you the 4 basic styles offered using simple questions of why and how and when to use them and the very last section provides a good fictional example that helps the reader grasp or put "this" all that makes sense in action.

I like the examples provided at the end to resolve a frustrating or teething issues or problems that can be related to things I have found in my workplace.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast, powerful and flexible
Comment: While there are other detailed reviews, my general comments follow. Any one chapter is worth the price and the effort to read the book. It is immediately practical with a "Quick Tour" section for ready application. The ultimate power in Straker's approach is the synthesis of the discrete tools to potentiate their effect. Simple elegance providing both free-form and structure. A wonderful base to the much more expansive work by Straker, "How to Invent (Almost) Anyting."

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Incredible planning / problem solving tool
Comment: Really great reference book for identifying and solving problems, planning and information mapping. Takes several management systems and combines them in a practical, time-effective method for working individually or in teams.

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