Critical thinking

• Problems around process improvements, product improvements and even system betterment could be be addressed using this approach.

• It aims at getting to the root cause of a situation and then solving the constraints.

• Japanese and Germans are particularly good at it as exhibited by their above-par engineering performance.

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Japanese term genchi genbustu - go and see for yourself - identifying problems and solving those is the responsibility of every employee.

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Theory of Constraints - Systematic approach for identifying and eliminating constraints in a system.

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TRIZ - Theory of Inventive Problem Solving - Effort should be focused on discovering and framing the problem - the solutions are relatively known.