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Generating Solution Ideas

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Before getting to this third decision-making step, decision makers would have completed a thorough and accurate analysis of the previous two process steps. Completion of the first process step would have resulted in a list of current state situations and their conditions that triggered the desire for change to a more positive future state situation. This then required contemplation of the situational conditions that might exist in that future state situation.

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Martin, T.N. (2016). Generating Solution Ideas. In: Smart Decisions. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137537003_4

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