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Reference - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Creation

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Creative Center of the Universe
- Roger von Oech thinks this site is one of the most comprehensive web-sites around on the subject of creativity. It is a little whacky but full of good stuff that does make you think including the creative timeline of the world.
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Creativity Home Page
- The Creativity Web is a resource center containing information to help the individual become more creative. Lists of resources includes creativity techniques, approximately 200 books, more than 60 software reviews, 100 companies, 30 web sites, people, mailing lists, etc. Click on the "Visual Guide" if you want to see a creative site map.
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RefleXymphony
- Proposed perpetual musical motion picture that will document global reflexive market activities. Features details on the planned release of software in August 2003 and offers contact information.
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Illumine Ltd
- Training in Creativity, thinking & learning for business & the public sector. In-house and open courses in Creative Thinking, Innovation, Mind Mapping, Speed Reading, Accelerated Learning, Study Skills & Stress Management. Certified by De Bono & Buzan
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Innovation House
- Brainstorming, creative thinking and problem solving for business including free resources and access to Innovation Toolbox.
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Some Thoughts About the Relationship Between Information and Understanding
- Michael O. Luke. The influence of increasing the amount of information, increasing the effectiveness of information mining tools and ways of organizing information to aid the cognitive process are briefly discussed.
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DirectedCreativity
- A guide to creative thinking for serious people, and the eight basic heuristics of directed creativity. This is the web site for Paul Plsek & Associates in Roswell, Georgia, USA. Heuristics are a key to good higher-order thinking and knowledge creation. See that section in particular.
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CreativeThink
- Stimulate personal or group creativity and innovation through seminars, workshops, and creative thinking books that Roger von Oech has written. This is his company web site.
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Onemodel.org
- An open source project developing an integrated repository for storing arbitrary knowledge as an object model. Features a mailing list, participation, and general information on the project.
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Innovation Centre Europe
- Helps companies with 3rd millennium thinking and creative ways to change.
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Innovation Toolbox
- Helps generate new ideas and solve problems in new ways by interactive lateral thinking, creative thinking, and problem solving techniques. Win3/95/98 shareware program.
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How Much Information?
- Attempts to measure how much information is produced in the world each year by looking at media and other variables. Produced by the School of Information Management Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. It has some insightful charts and graphs that show comparisions with various forms of knowledge whether digital or print, books vs. magazines, on PC's vs Enterprise databanks, etc. A participative ongoing study that welcomes your input. It is thought provoking.
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The Innovation Conversation
- What's the conversation about inside your company? Creativity and speed -- or cost cutting and risk avoidance? New ideas and new opportunities -- or the stock market and layoffs?
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Business Thinking Implementation
- An article by Hidetoshi Shibata in 1998 that describes creating leadership and organizational knowledge. Provides some information on how knowledge creation is key to successful management. The article is mainly about implementing good business thinking.
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Creativity At Work
- An interesting resource focused on personal creativity and organizational innovation in the workplace. Has a daily innovation news feed, a newsletter, and some interesting articles and essays by 'Creativity Catalyst' Linda Naiman
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HBS Working Knowledge: Innovation & Change
- The Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge web site has long been recognized as a good resource for more practical business fare than usually found in the Harvard Business Review, which makes this section on Innovation and Change articles of particular relevance to Innovation managers.
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Brain-Trusts
- Brain-Trusts is a strategic business partner facilitating innovation, business development, new ideas and habitudes for today's business ventures. We work with new, start-up and re-organized companies.
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Centre for the Development of Creative Thinking
- The COCD creativity site offers creativity tools and training. Web site is in English and Dutch
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Create-It! Inc.
- Our mission is to help growing businesses use creativity and technology to chart a course for the future using innovative strategies. We serve a diverse roster of clients through consulting, training, seminars and keynote speeches.
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Creative Technologies
- Creative thinking, training in problem solving and new education ideas.
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Creativity Consulting: Proactive Solutions
- We have assisted individuals, small businesses, companies, and corporations with insight, and innovative thinking.
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Executive Development Inc.
- A training and development company providing workshops and software around decision making, problem solving, team skills, creativity, and meeting management.
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Level2Lab
- Offers knowledge creation services help to accelerate corporate business development. Offers a description of services, and contact information.
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New IQ
- Discusses thinking skills, innovation, and organizational improvement. Reports current events involving thinking skills and training services.
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AWS - Mind Mapping
- Whether it's personal enhancement or corporate development, AWS has the solutions for you by offering consultancy services, software packages, mind mapping and creative thinking workshops and training sessions.
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Buzan Centre of the Great Lakes - USA
- A bold, no-nonsense approach to self-development based on the latest research on learning and whole-brain thinking.
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Buzan Centres. The home of Tony Buzan
- The Buzan Organisation. Information on Mental Literacy, Mindmaps and the work of Tony Buzan.
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Bosley+"Mind Mapping"=Brainstorm with MindMapper
- Bosley+ Mind Mapping; brainstorm, think creatively, organize ideas. Communicating better makes professional presentations. MindMapper's easy to learn using mind mapping techniques.
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World Wide Brain Club: A user manual for the Mind
- Information on Mental Literacy, Mindmaps and the work of Tony Buzan.
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MindMan, the Creative MindManager
- A visualization and organizational tool that increases your productivity and creativity. With MindMan you can visualize your most powerful ideas without having to fit them into linear structures and lists. English/Deutsch.
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Learning Resources: Mind Mapping
- Concise lecture notes and mind maps by Alan Calder of James Cook University.
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CoCo Systems Ltd
- The home of VisiMap and VisiMap Lite. VisiMap is a unique creativity- and productivity-enhancing tool for Microsoft Windows® that saves you valuable time in your day-to-day work and offers you new flexibility in exploring and organising your thoughts. It graphically records, structures and clarifies thoughts and ideas in such a way that they can be used, reused and then effectively communicated.
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IBeOn.com
- A web resource that uses Mind Mapping to unlock the full potential of the mind. The brain associates words, images, concepts, and ideas. Learn to Mind Map.
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Ygnius
- Produces software for mind mapping and creativity. Offers a 30-day trial version, a description of the software, and contact details for the company.
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M-Urge Ltd
- The UK home of MindManagerSmart, the official Mind Mapping software that lets you create mind maps easily on Windows based computers. Formerly known as eMindMaps.
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Mindsystems (Teamlink Australia)
- Specialises in Information and Knowledge Management. In particular Mind Mapping and MindManager software. Distributors of MindManager software for Australia and New Zealand
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FreeMind
- An Open-Source, Java Mindmapping tool. You can create and manage ideas and knowledge in a tree structure, with nice, intuitive representation.
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Expanding Paradigms - Mind Mapping
- Charles MacInerney offers workshops on Mind Mapping to the public. He has also worked with companies like 3M and Motorola, and specializes in the use of mind mapping with teams.
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MindMan
- Break down a big problem into details until each of them is easy to understand, overview, plan or manage. Mindmaps can be printed, exported, or turned into web pages. Win3 shareware.
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Mind Manager Review
- A review of Mind Manager 4.0, a tool that uses the mind-mapping metaphor for generating ideas.
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Accelerated Learning Website
- Organic and software mind mapping techniques by Birmingham City Council UFA and EdIT.
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Map Your Mind
- Increase the effectiveness of your brain. Features books, software, ideas and tools to be more creative.
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Mind Mapping FAQ
- Describes mind maps and refers to books and computer programs which give further education and experience with the topic.
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SoftNeuron
- Mindmapping software for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
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Visual Mind
- Software that let you do mind mapping on your computer. Mind mapping is an effective technique for note taking, brainstorming, planning, and organization.
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Graphic Organizer
- Graphic Organizer includes extensive links about the concept of mind-mapping and organizing information graphically. Offers consulting services in the areas of technology and strategic planning.
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BrainStorm
- Offers a Windows shareware textual mind mapping tool. Features a FAQ and general information about the software, as well as tips for users.
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Mind Maps
- Mind maps were developed in the late 60s by Tony Buzan as a way of helping students make notes that used only key words and images. They are much quicker to make, and because of their visual quality much easier to remember and review.
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Thai Mind Mappers
- Since Mind Mapping was introduced to, there are around 2,000 Thais who joined the workshops or read Thai version of Use Your Head and Get Ahead. The e-group is designed for its members to expand their skill and knowledge.
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MindManuals.com
- Software for flushing out ideas and concepts. Features product overview, technical details, testimonials, and purchase information.
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ConceptDraw: MindMap
- Software for brainstorming, project planning. Available for Macintosh and Windows. Features product demonstration, description and support.
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ConceptDraw
- Mind Mapping software tool and technique for mind managers, knowledge engineers, project managers, teachers and students, resource planning.
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ConceptDraw MINDMAP
- Software for mind-mapping and brainstorming, for Windows and Macintosh.
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Inspiration 6 - Hands On Workshop
- Tutorial teaches on how to use Inspiration software as a brainstorming tool.
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Infinite Innovations Ltd.
- Dedicated to the development and use of advanced brainstorming techniques.
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UK-Idea Company
- Consulting firm teaches skills with emphasis on creating new inventions, products, ideas and concepts. Offers an overview of services, book review, news, and contact details.
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Brainstorming for Teachers
- A brief outline of brainstorming as a classroom tool.
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IdeaCenter
- Software program, "IdeaFisher", aims to help eliminate creative blocks and stimulate brainstorming activity.
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Brainstorming - Meetings - Facilitation
- Web-Meetings Limited offers electronic brainstorming capabilities to workshops and conferences by providing participants with notebook PC's, wirelessly networked together, running specialist electronic meeting software
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Brainstorming software: Innovation Toolbox
- Creativity software for lateral thinking, brainstorming and innovation. Brainstorm by yourself using pro-active creative thinking techniques.
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Idea Fisher's Brainstorming Software
- Software for Business and Creative Writers. General problem solving tools.
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ParaMind Brainstorming Software
- ParaMind was created to help businesses, technical specialists, and writers of all kinds. ParaMind is a serious brainstorming program that is totally configurable and can be used to logically expand any idea.
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Brainstorming 101: Ideas for Excellence
- Create idea banks for all your projects with Brainstorming 101. This workshop shows you how to be more creative at work.
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Concept Mapping eGroup
- A discussion list for those interested in Concept Mapping.
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Concept Mapping Homepage
- Concept mapping is a technique for representing knowledge in graphs. Knowledge graphs are networks of concepts. Networks consist of nodes (points/vertices) and links (arcs/edges). Nodes represent concepts and links represent the relations between concepts.
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TouchGraph
- TouchGraph allows for the creation and navigation of ineractive graphs. Ideal for orginising links, or mind mapping.
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SMART Technologies Inc.
- SMART Ideas is concept mapping software for Windows that allows you to visually represent your ideas and their relationships using a variety of colors, shapes, symbols and links.
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WebMap: Concept Mapping on the Web
- Brian R. Gaines and Mildred L. G. Shaw. This article reports experience in taking an existing open architecture concept mapping tool and making it available on the web in a number of ways.
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An Introduction to Concept Mapping for Planning and Evaluation
- By William M.K. Trochim. Concept mapping is a type of structured conceptualization which can be used by groups to develop a conceptual framework which can guide evaluation or planning.
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Learning Skills Program - Concept Mapping
- "Concept-Mapping" is a tool for assisting and enhancing many of the types of thinking and learning that we are required to do at university. This describes the process of manual concept mapping.
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Concept Mapping: Soft Science or Hard Art?
- BY William M.K. Trochim. Is concept mapping "science" or "art"? Can we legitimately claim that concept maps represent reality, or are they primarily suggestive devices which might stimulate new ways to look at our experiences? Here, the scientific side of concept mapping is viewed as "soft science" and the artistic one as "hard art" to imply that the process has some qualities of both.
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Concept Mapping
- Concept mapping is a general method that can be used to help any individual or group to describe their ideas about some topic in a pictorial form. There are several different types of methods that all currently go by names like "concept mapping", "mental mapping" or "concept webbing."
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Designing a Concept Mapping System User Interface
- Roberto A. Flores-Méndez. Concept mapping users can be found on a wide range of areas and with different levels of expertise. Their main motivation is to create diagrams to represent and communicate information relevant to their domain.
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The Use of Pattern Matching and Concept Mapping in Community Organizing Projects
- Community Organizing Projects need the ability to graphically show the priority associated with areas community need or concerns that community members want to address and then either show the perceived matches or perceived disconnects in the levels of resources that community members believe to be devoted to each area.
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How do Preservice Teachers use Concept Maps to Organize Their Curriculum Content Knowledge?
- Brian Ferry, John Hedberg and Barry Harper. This paper reports on preservice teachers use of a concept mapping tool to create and modify concept maps about science related curriculum content knowledge.
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Axon Idea Processor
- Axon Idea Processor - a visualization tool for thinkers developed entirely in Prolog.
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Banxia Decision Explorer
- Banxia Software produce decision support software for professionals. Decision Explorer provides management of complexity when developing strategy and ideas. Frontier Analyst performs efficiency analysis using Data Envelopment Analysis.
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Inspiration: visual thinking and learning software
- Inspiration K-12 Edition is a visual learning tool that inspires students to develop and organize their ideas. It supports visual thinking techniques, enabling students to easily create and update graphic organizers, concept maps, idea maps and other visual diagrams.
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Organizational Memory & Quest Map
- Group Decision Support Systems has developed organizational memory software called QuestMap that overcomes the barriers to capturing informal knowledge. Quest Map captures the key issues and ideas during meetings and creates shared understanding in a knowledge team. Users end up with a "map" that shows a history of the conversations that led up to key decisions and plans. Discussion Mapping. Meeting Management.
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IHMC Concept Map Tools
- The IHMC Concept Mapping Software empowers users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concept Maps. The toolkit is platform independent and network enabled, allowing the users to build, and collaborate during the construction of concept maps with colleagues anywhere on the network, as well as, share and navigate through others' models distributed on servers throughout Internet.
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Knowledge Manager
- Software for visual learning using concept maps, conceptual knowledge bases and knowledge representation. Features example maps, FAQ, newsletter, and an overview of the company.
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The IBIS Manual
- IBIS stands for Issue-Based Information System, and was developed to provide a simple yet formal structure for the discussion and exploration of "wicked" problems. Discussion Mapping.
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Progress towards wise decision-making and problem-solving
- Progress is a procedure to help you make wise decisions. The resources on this site are all free, and include examples and templates. Progress can help with personal decisions (e.g. career decisions, ethical decisions) and with problem-solving.
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Free Knowledge Exchange
- Evolutionary technology of cooperative problem solving. We look at problems from different points of view. You will see how experience and knowledge of many people unite here to solve your problem.
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Mind Tools
- A wide range of useful problem solving and analytical techniques.
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Follow The Clues To Solve The Problem
- Downloadable book intended to aid in the solution of difficult personal, business, or professional problems. The general logic used by general Eisenhower for his problems and plans is used. No charge is made unless the book helps the user.
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ThoughtPath
- Problem solving software uses idea generation techniques. Features product overview, information on the company and contact details.
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Help Making Decisions
- Decision-Making, Problem-solving, Selections made visually, a free-hand Charting Method for major decisions, No computer software or Mathematical theories needed! Purchase online.
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Avoiding Mental Error: General and Professional
- Article outlines practices for catching and avoiding errors in the decision making process. Features bibiliographic references, as well as links to related resources.
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Concept Star - Idea Analysis and Decision Support Tool
- Software tool for consultants, executives & knowledge workers. Relationship modeling is a proven method to analyze numerous ideas of complex situations, in order to generate new insights and create effective solutions.
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TRIZ Consulting, Inc.
- Provides consulting by using Theory of Inventive problem Solving (TRIZ) and TRIZ training.
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Wicked Problems
- Naming the Pain in Organizations by E. Jeffrey Conklin and William Weil.
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TriSolver Group
- Company offering Triz software services
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Dollar Questions
- Website run by a college student in California who for $1 will answer any question you put to him - right or wrong....
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Critical Path Analysis
- Critical Path Analysis is an extremely effective method of analysing a complex project. It helps you to calculate the minimum length of time in which the project can be completed, and which activities should be prioritised to complete by that date.
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Decision Theory and Decision Trees
- Decision trees provide an effective structure in which alternative decisions and the implications of taking those decisions can be laid down and evaluated. They also help you to form an accurate, balanced picture of the risks and rewards that can result from a particular choice.
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Decision Trees
- OR-Notes by J. R. Beasley. In many problems chance (or probability) plays an important role. Decision analysis is the general name that is given to techniques for analysing problems containing risk/uncertainty/probabilities. Decision trees are one specific decision analysis technique and we will illustrate the technique by use of an example.
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Game Theory and Business Strategy: Extensive Form Game Solver Applet
- An applet which solves extensive form games (multi-player decision trees).
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Apollo Associated Services, Inc.
- Offers seminars, training, and consulting. Developer of the Apollo process. Features articles, essays, newsletters, book excerpts, suggested reading list, and descriptions of commercial offerings.
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Root Cause Live
- Community site for users and providers of performance improvement, failure analysis, and incident investigation services. Non-proprietary, non-industry-specific. Features active online discussion forum (free membership required), online seminars, book reviews, links to web resources, vendor directory, and the quarterly Root-Off challenge.
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Decision Systems, Inc.
- Offers software, training, and consulting. Developers of the REASON process and associated software. Provides online technical papers, implementation guides and descriptions of commercial offerings.
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Human Performance, Root Cause, and Trending
- Loosely-knit group of performance improvement professionals. Annual workshop to facilitate sharing of information and best practices. Features summaries and presentations from previous workshops, topic and registration information for upcoming events.
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ThinkReliability.com
- Offers workshops, training, and consulting. Developer of the Cause Mapping process. Features free cause mapping template, online presentations, papers, and descriptions of commercial offerings.
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Medical Risk Management Associates, LLC
- Offers software, training, and consulting in healthcare performance improvement. Co-developers of the Root Cause Analyst software package. Provides FAQs, articles, report forms, legal perspectives, and descriptions of commercial offerings.
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Investigation Process Research Roundtable and Library
- Research material on the investigation process. Critical of root cause analysis as generally practiced. Offers online papers, reports, and reviews.
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Failsafe Network, Inc.
- Offers consulting, training, and reference materials. Developer of the ROOTS method and the Combing Process. Features online papers and presentations, and descriptions of commercial offerings.
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ReliabilityWeb
- Compendium of Reliability and Analysis resources. Features online seminars, training event schedules, Root Cause IQ quiz, "Ask an Expert", and a vendor directory.
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Buzzword Central
- Short tutorials on Operations Management topics. A primer on several of the more well-known methodologies used in the industry today.
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Root Cause: State-of-the-Practice
- Online forum with messages, links, and files related to building a description of the State-of-the-Practice. Free membership required.
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Conger & Elsea, Inc.
- Offers training, consulting, and software. Specialists in MORT (Management Oversight and Risk Tree). Site features: newsletters, descriptions of commercial offerings.
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Failure Analysis Articles
- A collection of articles on Failure Analysis, from the Plant Maintenance Resource Center.
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Quality Control Tool Descriptions
- Information on seven frequently-used Quality Control tools. Topics: run chart, pareto chart, flow chart, cause and effect (fishbone) diagram, histogram, scatter diagram, control chart.
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Sites of Reliability Interest
- Collection of reliability engineering and analysis links maintained by Ramon Leon of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Reliability and Failure Analysis in Maintenance
- Collection of reliability, failure analysis, and maintenance articles.
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U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
- News, investigation reports, incident reporting, other chemical safety information. Special multimedia section with incident-related images.
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Major Transportation Incident Investigations
- Reports on major incidents investigated by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), links to other reports, press releases, and investigation process.
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Literature Review
- PDF File. Broad review of investigation and analysis methods dating back to 1973. Published in 2001 by the UK Health and Safety Executive.
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Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis
- Offers information on human performance, risk analysis, cause analysis, and critical infrastructure protection. Features workshop proceedings, newsletter archive, as well as research area descriptions. Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering.
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Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss
- Explorations of the socioeconomic causes of biodiversity loss. Presents an uncommon, total systems approach to cause analysis. Analytical approach, case studies, and executive summary. From the World Wildlife Federation (WWF).
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Reliass
- Offers software, training, and consulting. Developers of the ASENT, EAGLE, and AIMSS software, provide free seminars in the UK. Features free software offer and description of commercial offerings.
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Sentinel Event Alert
- Healthcare operating experience and lessons-learned information from the U.S. Joint Committee on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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Accident Investigation Program
- Overview of the process used by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Provides procedures, workbooks, and guidelines. Some information not available outside DOE.
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System Improvements, Inc.
- Offers training, conferences, software, and reference materials. Developers of the TapRooT® system. Site features: newsletters, conference information, and descriptions of commercial offerings.
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Guidance Document
- PDF File. Detailed guidelines for incident investigation. Method descriptions, worksheets, flowcharts, and guidance on applicability. Published by the U.S. Department of Energy in 1992 as Technical Standard DOE-NE-STD-1004-92.
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Medical Event Reporting System - Transfusion Medicine
- Information on the MERS-TM event reporting system. Aimed at improving blood product safety through systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of event information from transfusion medicine sites.
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Events and Causal Factors Analysis
- Detailed guidance on the widely-used Event and Causal Factor method for performing incident investigations. Provides charting symbol standards and tips for using the method. PDF version also available.
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Introduction to MES Investigation Guide
- Set of ten guides for performing incident investigations using Multilinear Events Sequencing. Provides detailed and comprehensive guidance on all phases of investigation. Provided as Shareware for personal use.
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Comprehensive District Education Planning
- A process used in the public school system of the state of New York that relies on data and cause analysis to improve student learning. Features status reports, implementation plans, and guidance.
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Imaginatik - Idea Management, Innovation Mgmt, Suggestion Systems, Knowledge Management
- World-wide leader for Software and Research on Enterprise-wide Innovation Management, Idea Management, Knowledge Management, and Employee Suggestion Systems. Imaginatik technology is used for New Product Development, Stage Gate processes, and other B2E and employee involvement applications by the world's biggest companies. Clients include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Teck Cominco, Cadbury-Schweppes, Hallmark, and many other Fortune 500 companies.
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Innovation Network: Corporate Innovation & Creativity
- The Innovation Network is an association of companies and employees committed to innovation. The site features some interesting articles as well as some fun tools related to innovation
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Product Development and Management Association
- Founded in 1976, the PDMA is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization with the mission to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products, covering new goods as well as services
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Gartner Group
- Research and analysis company - has a couple of great documents on Innovation - "The Survey of Innovation Management Technology" , and "Focussing the Innovation Process" to name but two
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The Miami Herald 09/02/2002 Daydreaming can pay off if employees share their ideas
- An interview with Charles Thompson of the Creative Group, talking about the value that companies can get through idea sharing and a formalised idea management program
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Information Week Article - "A Timely Notion Worth Considering"
- Tony Kontzer wrote this piece that was amongst the first public articles explicitly linking idea management and knowledge management together. It also includes a run down of some of the better-known vendors and includes the now-wellknown quote that "Idea Management could rescue knowledge management from oblivion" by BaseX analyst Jon Spira
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Ideadollar - Turning ideas into products
- Although IdeaDollar is now a dead and defunct internet company (ah, the heady days of the internet boom", the concept behind this company is still incredibly interesting - and may yet have its place in commerce at some point. Companies like IdeaDollar were the first to take idea management to the public - capturing ideas, paying submitters a nominal (virtual) amount and then attempting to develop the good ideas as a product development company. Really interesting concept.
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Corporate Innovation Blog
- A great daily blog - focuses on Innovation, Knowledge Management and Idea Management Research. Contains not only original research, but also highlights worthwhile articles and web sites in the topics covered.
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Articulating and integrating innovation in business
- IBM Global Services White Paper. Explains how to benefit from accelerating the production of new knowledge, based on supply and demand Describes an organization can quickly learn to adapt and innovate using the knowledge life cycle. It discusses first generation focus on knowledge management thinking vs the 2nd generation focus on knowledge process management thinking.
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InnovationTools
- A portal that features a collection of software tools, articles, news, and links for developing creative solutions for businesses.
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Applied Innovation Alliance
- Provides business consulting, training, coaching through virtual and on-site approaches. Offers articles, links to related resources, and contact information.
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C. W. Prather & Associates
- A resource company that helps individuals and companies with creative thinking, problem solving, and innovation with training programs and consulting. It focuses on the management of ideas so they go somewhere.
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The CEO Refresher - Bringing Ideas to Life
- Rick Maurer looks at principles which you can use to make an idea into a reality. 1) Recognize Resistance for the idea 2) Consider the Context (Time + Place + Relationships success or failure of idea) 3) Avoid Knee-Jerk Reactions - sit and think carefully about your responses - especially when facing resistance 4) Pay Attention to every detail and listen to other people's concerns carefully 5) Shut up and listen - If you want to know what other people really think, you'll have to let them do the talking 6) Connect without compromise - make room for others to join you - be willing to make it a group idea rather than just yours
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IM-BOOT Creativity, Innovation Circle & Innovation Management
- An interesting website that attempts to connect people together with a strong focus on innovation, innovation management or idea creation. Although it is a member-only service, membership is free.

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