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problem-solving process or CI'S.
There are eight basic stages in the creative problem solving
process: analyzing the environment, recognizing a problem,
identifying the problem, making assumptions, generating
alternatives, choosing among alternatives, implementing the
chosen solution, and control.
Figure 2.2 Four Stages of the CPS Process
Making Generation of
Assumptions Alternatives
About Future
Determine
Primary
Situational
Factors
These stages are shown in Figure 2.1. The middle four of 101.
these stages are shown in the more detailed diagram pre- CREATIVE
sented in Figure 2.2. This figure provides more detail on PRQR_LEM
these four stages primarily to show how the decision maker SOLVING
TECHNIQUES
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