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Because Stop&Think..

  • ..brings an ingenuity-based project planning method to bear.
  • ..uses real options to value groups of information (as well as I.T. assets), arriving at a direct measure of project risk.
  • ..has created a simplified approach to understanding problems within a project.

 

Stop&Think Tool

The Stop&Think Tool is designed to help you understand why something has or will come about. It could be a problem, project, issue, situation, or something else. The goal is to arrive at an insight that suggests an ingenious solution.

Ingenuity can be defined as “creative simplification”. The arrangement of a problem’s causes as a factual flow makes it much easier for our natural categorizing mind to refine an insight through fusion (discarding and combining).

The method focuses on the future certainty of a cause, thereby enabling forward thinking.

Multiple tools can be layered to map a cause-and-effect hierarchy.

The tool can also be used to simplify, as well as determine the value of information.

 

Testimonials

    • “Robert led me through his Stop&Think method to make critical strategic decisions about where to focus the time and capital of the Bradshaw-Knight Foundation. His thoughtfulness and intelligence led me to redirect our efforts in fruitful new directions. While it’s hard work to have your thinking challenged with tough new questions, it was a very efficient way to make good decisions.”
      -James A. Knight
      Executive Director
      The Bradshaw-Knight Foundation
      Madison, WI

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    • “We used Stop&Think to resolve critical planning issues in our Global Facilities Management Department. Stop&Think broke a logjam in our thinking and led to clarity, action, and results.”
      -Gary Broersma
      Director, Facilities Management
      Covance, Inc.
      Madison, WI

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    • “By leveraging our expertise, Stop&Think has allowed us to develop our business in ways novel to the real estate industry. We have literally been able to create demand for our services in the emerging second property market, as well as identify investments that previously were undetectable. Enhancing our knowledge capital has increased NextProperty’s value many fold.”
      -Steve & Lynn Saunders
      The NextProperty Group
      Geneva, IL

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    • “We applied the Stop&Think process to a basic business decision: how to educate our market about a sophisticated and costly service related to facility planning. The systematic, Socratic approach to this core issues yielded great ideas that traditional strategic planning had never brought out.”
      - Principal of Management Consulting Firm.

     

     

    Stop&Think Blogs

    The blogs are an example of social ingenuity; creating a community in order to develop expertise. It is particularly helpful to mention project resources (books, webpages, webinars, etc..) that you have found useful. If you would like something posted please either leave a comment or email me at robert@stopthink.com.