Cyberquest - Dickey, John W.

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Résumé :
CyberQuest is a multimedia software and hardware system created to assist such areas as problem solving, strategic planning, design and more general innovation support. It is intended to help individuals and groups in industry and government come up with ideas and ways to implement them. The book's goals are to describe the nature of this new concept of a problem solving and innovation support and to capture and generalize on many of the experiences that have assisted the author in this endeavor to create CyberQuest.

Biographie:
John W. Dickey

Sommaire:

Preface
AN INTRODUCTION TO CYBERQUEST
Brief Description
More Detailed Illustration
Additional Features. Using the Results
AN EXTENDED EXAMPLE
Problem Description and Analysis
Word Selection
Idea Generation
Sketches
Idea Screening
Idea Packaging and Evaluation
Completion
Add to Previous Ideas File
APPLICATIONS OF CYBERQUEST
Technical
Managerial
Social
Humanities
Education
Product Development and Promotion
Lessons Learned
PROCESS EXPERIMENTS
High Tech Experiments
Lower-Tech Experiences
Some Lessons Learned
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS
Identifying Background Information
Situation Structuring
Analytic Tools
Some Lessons Learned
WORD SELECTION
Word Hierachies
Basic Words
Key Words
Experiments
Some Lessons Learned
IDEA GENERATION
The Idea Generation Process and Concept Galaxies
Notes
General Notes
Goals
More Information
Some Lessons Learned
SCREENING
Short Name
Screening Status Categories
Ratings and Scores
Comments and Information Sharing
Group Interaction
Some Lessons Learned
PACKAGING AND EVALUATION
The Packaging Process
Types of Packages
Package Review
Decisions Among Packages
Some Lessons Learned
REPORTING
Varieties of Reports
Modes of Output
LOOKING AT THE RESULTS
Idea Paths
Alternate Goals
A Framework
Categories of Affecting Factors
A Formative Assessment
INPUTS: SESSION PREPARATION AND OPERATION
Types of Sessions
Preparation and Setup
Facilitation
Completion and Follow-up
Incorporate Differences
Some Lessons Learned
IMMEDIATE EFFECTS
Session Outputs
Relationships
User Comments
Some Lessons Learned
IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACTS
Implementation
Impacts
Experiences from Other Cases
Intended Goals
Summary
Some Lessons Learned-A Benefit Cost Perspective
COMPARISON TO OTHER APPROACHES
Reasonable Resemblances to Other Processes
Comparison to Individual Efforts
Comparison to Literature Searches
Comparison to Group Activities
CONCLUSIONS
The Multitudinous Factor Issue
The Use Issue
The Small Time Issue
The Impact Issue
The Study Issue
Looking Ahead
References
Author Index
Subject Index