There's reason to believe that it frequently appears from the variation of known solutions to new problem domains, while there are numerous roads to innovation. The good news is that folks have a remarkable facility to make analogies - to find similarities between domains that, on the surface, are not much alike. The authors assert that this skill to make inferences that are analogical is essential to problem solving.
The problem statement is simply a partial match to the known remedies when solving any difficulty that is new; the key to analogical problem solving is to uncover understood issues that have exactly the same arrangement as the problem. The writers describe just how to enhance our 'analogical retrieval' and supply several tools for initiation that is analogical.
Supporting Innovation by Promoting Analogical Reasoning case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: January 01, 2011 PRODUCT #: ROT134-HCB-ENG
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