How to Reduce Costs - How Do I Handle Budget Issues?
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Complete the circle by adding your Instant Thinking and using the tools in Deep Dive Thinking - Analysis, Solutions, and Impacts. Once you've completed all the items in this Sitch you'll have examined the Sitch from many different angles and expanded your expertise.
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May 31, 2018 04:52pm
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May 29, 2018 07:04pm
cut unnecessary costs and focus on highly important items
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The checklists are steps, processes, procedures or lists of ideas to help fix, change or find a solution for the incident, situation, event, challenge, etc. This helps provide a quick guide to review main points.
Instant Thinking
Steps that you would take to fix, change or improve the sitch. They are simple, short and to the point ideas. This helps you plan and implement a solution.
Fishbones
Finding the causes for the Sitch. This helps clarify what to focus on when you fix, change or improve the Sitch. It focuses your attention on the right things.
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Links
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Impacts
Share a small positive impact based on what have been observed as a result of fixing or finding a solution to the Sitch or challenge. The impact does not need to be accurate or big. It is an estimation. It is a very small positive impact in work and in oneself. This helps to see real-life impacts of the actions and learning.
80/20 Ideas
80/20 Rule is about asking the question "Which aspect of the problem or solution causes the greatest consequences or results?" Usually 20% of the problem or solution causes 80% of the consequence or results. This helps you focus on the right things.
Sketches
Sketch your ideas and items to help you visualize your understanding of the issues in the Sitch. You may want to sketch patterns, similarities or dissimilarities. Your sketch can be very basic, which is alright, or very advanced.
Frames
Frames present different views of the Sitch and help you gain a 360 degree perspective. These provide insights to possible biases. Your actions' success or failure are influenced by other people's feelings, culture, values, sentiments, and emotional attachments. Frames help you look at other people’s sentiments and emotional attachments and allow you to understand them better and refine your approaches and solutions.
Pros and Cons
One way to assess solutions and make go or no-go decisions is to list the pros, the reasons that favors the decisions, and the cons, the reasons that do not support the solution. This approach helps you to weigh things.
What Ifs
This is a mini-scenario. By presenting a solution that shows the different scenarios, you improve your understanding of the options in solving the Sitch.
Workarounds
When you face challenges, sometimes you have no control over moving some obstacles. So what do you do? You develop workarounds. You workaround the obstacles and achieve your goals.
Stories
Sharing a story is a way of sharing experiences. Answer the questions to complete the Story Arch.
Sense Making
Sense Making is capturing the essence of the patterns and connections of the ideas that you think are valuable. This is a synthesis of the key ideas you learned from the Sitch. Others call this "takeaways".
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Deep Dive Thinking
Deep Dive Thinking allows you to analyze the situation, implement solutions, and examine results. You respond to the Sitch by using Deep Dive Thinking and accessing the over 20 tools available on Micro.Expert. You learn quickly by doing and acting. Put all of the ideas you are learning from the webinar into practice.
