Scientific Method Lesson Plans
for the Conceptual Age and the Creative Economy

There are many advantages of using SM-14 in all fields, including our personal lives. Here is a condensed summary of some of the advantages as they apply to business and industry.

Meet Global Competition with More
Complete Problem Solving and Decision Making

The main way to keep ahead of competition is through better thinking, perpetual innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, and more complete problem solving and decision making. SM-14 is the guide to all of them. One formula or guide serves these and many other areas. As several generations have not been adequately taught complete problem solving, you can improve the productivity of your organization by encouraging employees to learn and use SM-14.

The Scientific Method Is a Guide to Thinking and Research

SM-14 helps you organize your thoughts, ends aimless wandering, helps ideas gather shape, increases self-confidence, and helps you avoid snap judgments, trains you for change, innovation, and doing research in all fields.

Management and Planning

How to manage and how to plan are basically problems. The better your managers are trained in the use of SM-14, the better job they will do. Teach method along with subject matter, and you get better transfer of learning.

Creative Problem Solving Method and Innovation for the Creative Economy

One of the best creative problem solving formulas has been offered by the Creative Education Foundation. SM-14 is more complete and is based on centuries of development. Its use will lead to more new ideas, innovations, and challenge of changes, to be sure they are correct and practical for your organization.

Scientific Management, Management Sciences, and Rational Management

These require the use of SM-14. Many misunderstandings exist about these subjects. Clear them up in your organization and you will help improve management performance.

The Scientific Method Empowers Employees

With the current movement to push problem solving and decision making further down the ranks in organizations, you should be helping employees to understand and learn a complete problem solving formula or guide, such as SM-14.

Environmental Problems

There are numerous claims (many questionable) being made about the environment. Apply SM-14 to the problem, and you can find the real answer.

The Scientific Method for Health and Personal Life

Teach employees SM-14. It will also aid them in solving their personal problems – thus being less distracted from their occupational duties, this increases business profits.

One Universal and Basic Formula Serves the Purpose of Many

In his works, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon points out that problem solving, decision making, operation research, discovery, management, medical diagnosis, configuring systems, design, chemistry research, scientific inquiry, and scientific method are all basically the same process. In my brief  “Other Names for the Scientific Method” you will find an even longer list of things that are complete problem solving (i.e., the scientific method). Thus, great savings are possible if one standard formula or guide (such as SM-14) is taught, rather than numerous miscellaneous ones that are usually not complete formulas or guides.

Aids in Handling Complexity of the Conceptual Age

The complexity of business and industry is increasing ever faster. While computers both help and add to the problem, the only real answer is training people to think better and to improve their problem solving, decision making, and person attributes. SM-14 is the basic guide needed for all of these skills in the creative economy and the conceptual age.