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Solution Tree is a professional development company and publisher of educational material for K–12 educators. Founded in 1998, the company provides services and products that include books, videos, conferences, workshops, consultation, and online courses. [ 1 ]
The five whys technique has been criticized as a poor tool for root cause analysis. Teruyuki Minoura, former managing director of global purchasing for Toyota, criticized it as being too basic a tool to analyze root causes at the depth necessary to ensure an issue is fixed. [9] Reasons for this criticism include:
Following his career at Stevenson, DuFour authored many books and articles and became an education consultant through Solution Tree. [3] He consulted to school districts, professional organizations, universities, and departments of education throughout North America.
In game theory, backward induction is a solution methodology that follows from applying sequential rationality to identify an optimal action for each information set in a given game tree. It develops the implications of rationality via individual information sets in the extensive-form representation of a game.
Cluster Criticism otherwise known as Cluster Analysis is a method utilized in rhetorical criticism.This form of analysis was made famous by Kenneth Burke in which a critic attempts to unearth the hidden motive behind a text by focusing on the structural relations and associative meanings between certain main ideas, concepts, subjects or actions presented in a text.
Textual criticism has been practiced for over two thousand years, as one of the philological arts. [4] Early textual critics, especially the librarians of Hellenistic Alexandria in the last two centuries BC, were concerned with preserving the works of antiquity, and this continued through the Middle Ages into the early modern period and the invention of the printing press.
An issue tree showing how a company can increase profitability: A profitability tree is an example of an issue tree. It looks at different ways in which a company can increase its profitability. Starting from the key question on the left, it breaks it down between revenues and costs, and break these down into further details.
Performing a probabilistic risk assessment starts with a set of initiating events that change the state or configuration of the system. [3] An initiating event is an event that starts a reaction, such as the way a spark (initiating event) can start a fire that could lead to other events (intermediate events) such as a tree burning down, and then finally an outcome, for example, the burnt tree ...