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	Thought - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires.
		Thinking is a higher cognitive function and the analysis of thinking processes is part of cognitive psychology.
		Thinking can be modeled by a field (like a mathematical representation of an electro-magnetic field, but with each point in the field a point of consciousness).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thinking (422 words)

	Thinking Process
		Memory, self—awareness and thought processes are so complex that they are believed to require the involvement of the whole brain rather than one or two restricted regions.
		The study of man’s mental processes remain very engrossing and many of the answers are so remote, that this itself is an indication of the phenomenal powers of the cerebrum, which is the seat of human consciousness and of all learning, speech, thought and recall.
		Either process would involve changes at the synapses that is, at the points where impulses pass from one neuron (brain cell) to another.
	www.irfi.org /articles/articles_51_100/thinking_process.htm (3609 words)

	Indicator: Systems Thinking
		Together, systems thinking and process reengineering ensure that every facet of the school system is focused and aligned toward the mission.
		Systems thinking is the ability to see through the complexity of a structure, to analyze the interdependencies and the value of each component in light of the purpose.
		Process reengineering is the redesigning of a system to streamline its components and their interdependency for the achievement of desired results.
	www.ncrel.org /engauge/framewk/sys/think/systhiin.htm (278 words)

	Hyponoetics - Glossary - [T]
		Dialectics is the process of thought that proceeds by contradiction and the reconciliation of contradiction, the overall pattern being one of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
		A person thinking transrationally is not thinking within the bounds of the capacity of the brain, as rational thinking does, but the secondary mind thinks as the primary mind, it is one with the primary mind and therefore uses the unrestrained power of primary thinking.
		Universal Thinking is the thinking of the Universal Mind, and as such, synonymous to Primary Thinking and contrasted with Individual or Secondary Thinking.
	www.hyponoesis.org /html/glossary/t.html (4574 words)

	BUSINESS PROCESS THINKING - Shift from Traditional Functional Mindset
		Thinking in terms of processes compels a business to see itself and its work from the customer's perspective, rather than from its own.
		This way of thinking stands in the way of executives understanding and improving the flow of cross-functional activities which create enduring value for customers and shareholders.
		The wholehearted commitment to process and an abandonment of the thinking and practices inherent in functional organizations begins with focusing on twin principles – being organized and being together.
	www.1000ventures.com /business_guide/process_thinking.html (1019 words)

	Kaizen Rapid Process \| Lean Thinking \| Lean and the Environment \| EPA
		Rapid continual improvement processes typically require an organization to foster a culture where employees are empowered to identify and solve problems.
		Once a suitable production process, administrative process, or area in a factory is selected, a more specific "waste elimination" problem within that area is chosen for the focus of the kaizen event (i.e., the specific problem that needs improvement, such as lead time reduction, quality improvement, or production yield improvement).
		For example, an organization might select a change in process chemistry that addresses one improvement need (e.g., product quality, process cycle time) but that might be sub-optimal if the organization considered the material hazards or toxicity and the associated chemical and hazardous waste management obligations.
	www.epa.gov /lean/thinking/kaizen.htm (1409 words)

	The Center for Process Studies: What is Process Thought?
		In addition to the academic journal Process Studies, a popular vehicle for the dissemination of the theological application is Creative Transformation, the magazine of the Process and Faith Program.
		Process interdisciplinary thought addresses issues outside the areas of academic philosophy and theology, for example in education, physics, ecology, economics, social theory, women's studies, and psychology.
		In addition to the academic journal Process Studies, major vehicles of this application are the Conferences and Seminars of the Center for Process Studies, reported in its newsletter Process Perspectives, and the State University of New York (SUNY) Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought, edited by David Ray Griffin.
	www.ctr4process.org /about/process (508 words)

	A Thinking World: About The Thinking Notebook
		Thinking, writing, reflecting — these processes all work together to create the habit of thoughtfulness in you, a pattern of thinking that, once it gets established, will grow exponentially.
		Finally, in order to actually learn to think through reading a book, it is necessary to become actively involved in the experience— thinking, articulating your ideas, evaluating the quality of your reasoning, and refining and improving your thinking process.
		Whatever the notebook form, the key to success is developing the discipline and commitment to engage in the process, thinking deeply and expressing your ideas as clearly and specifically as possible.
	www.thinkingworld.com /about.htm (338 words)

	The Center for Process Studies: The Center for Process Studies
		The Center for Process Studies is a research center of Claremont School of Theology, and affiliated with Claremont Graduate University.
		Process thought is based on the work of philosophers Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, two contemporary examples of a longstanding philosophical tradition that emphasizes becoming and change over static being.
		Process thought offers an approach to the social, political, and economic order that brings issues of human justice together with a concern for ecology.
	www.ctr4process.org (253 words)

	Thinking Page: better thinking using systems thinking, creativity, cybernetics, cognition research
		The Thinking Page is divided into five sections, each with its own perspective on thinking and its own unique insights.
		Systems Thinking - systems thinking is a perspective that helps us see and understand the big picture in new ways.
		The Thinking Page is proud to have received a Top 5% of the Web award from Lycos.
	www.thinking.net (180 words)

	Educational Psychology Interactive: Critical thinking
		This implies that creative thinking is a component of critical thinking rather than a separate, though related, thinking process with its own standards of excellence.
		Critical thinking is a complex activity and we should not expect that one method of instruction will prove sufficient for developing each of its component parts.
		Therefore, it is necessary to include development of creative thinking (e.g., lateral thinking)and practice in using both sets of competencies to solve problems and make decisions in a wide variety of situations.
	chiron.valdosta.edu /whuitt/col/cogsys/critthnk.html (2222 words)

	STSC CrossTalk - Applying Systems Thinking to Process Improvement - Mar 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Process discipline and improvement (the perceived fix) is done for its own sake, and the consequence is that the organization's software/systems development performance gets worse (the unintended consequence).
		But the implementation of processes and procedures that are nothing but a regurgitation of the CMMI in these environments results in burdening the organization with process overhead that does not add value, thus making the organization less effective and less efficient than they were without the CMMI.
		In this systems archetype, the perceived problem is a lack of process or process discipline in the organization, or that the organization does not have a CMM or CMMI maturity level.
	www.stsc.hill.af.mil /crosstalk/2004/03/0403West.html (2864 words)

	Innovation Network: Articles & Reports, The Thinking Process
		To illustrate Rhythmic Processing her summary is paraphrased along with examples of activities that apply to each phase.
		This kind of thinking could be done on the ride to and from work, while mowing the lawn or performing other non-value-added tasks.
		Think about your routine activities and how they might be used to encourage R-mode thinking.
	www.thinksmart.com /2/articles/thinkingprocess.html (691 words)

	THE CRITICAL THINKING PROCESS
		Because critical thinkers fully trust the processes of reasoned inquiry, they are willing to use these skills to examine even their most deeply held values and beliefs, and to modify these belief-when evidence and experience contradict them.
		Socratic questioning is an important type of critical dialogue in which the questioner deeply probes the meaning, justification, or logical strength of a claim, position, or line of reasoning.
		Noncritical thinkers can often provide correct answers, repeat definitions, and carry out calculations, yet be unable to transfer their knowledge to new situations because of a basic lack of understanding.
	web2.airmail.net /drstan19/critthink.htm (538 words)

	Jean Moroney's Thinking Skills
		The mission of Thinking Directions is to teach professionals how to invest their intellectual capital—both their expertise and their general knowledge—to achieve maximum real-world results.
		The methods help him to develop critical thinking and creative thinking skills—and to move flexibly between the two modes of thinking, as needed.
		A graduate of Thinking Tactics can diagnose why the team is stuck or floundering, and can adapt the techniques from the workshop to help the team get back on track.
	www.thinkingdirections.com (390 words)

	Lean Thinking for Process Improvement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lean Thinking, on the other hand, is focused on process flow and views any activity that does not add value as waste.
		Lean uses visuals: process mapping, flowcharting, and value stream mapping, to understand the process flow.
		Lean Thinking is ideal for mature (energy), slow growth (automotive), low transaction industries (small business) or an organization where mathematical tools are not common.
	www.bizmanualz.com /articles/07-14-05_lean_thinking.html (840 words)

	Amazon.com: Nursing Process and Critical Thinking (3rd Edition): Books: Judith M. Wilkinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Critical thinking is important for nurses—perhaps in different degrees and for different uses, but at all levels of practice.
		For the "Nursing Process Practices," the answer keys give the rationale for both correct and incorrect answers and frequently demonstrate the thinking process used to arrive at the answers.
		It is effective for students who have had nursing process early in the curriculum and who later have difficulty applying it in a clinical course—simply assign a chapter and exercises to remediate the difficulty.
	www.amazon.com /Nursing-Process-Critical-Thinking-3rd/dp/0805391762 (2161 words)

	The Thinking Cap Part One
		But all great players had as part of their thought process some key basic elements, such as not allowing their opponent to make a one-move threat that could not be defended.
		So of course at first this intrusion into your chess thinking is awkward and possibly even counterproductive, but once you play lots of slow games and have a more effective and efficient process down pat, you start to think about the improved process less and less until you just do it, with markedly improved results.
		Analysis — The part of the thinking process where you say to yourself, “If I go there, what is he going to do and then what I am going to do in reply?” — It is the part of the process which creates the mental “tree of moves” so to speak.
	www.jeremysilman.com /chess_thinking_cap/040403_thinking_cap.html (1274 words)

	Field Notes on the Process of Thinking
		Thinking is not thoughts moving through your mind in some sort
		Thinking from the heart can be very vast, intuitive, and insightful.
		Thinking asks you to practice waiting before you jump to the conclusion that the other
	www2.hawaii.edu /~thomson/thinking.htm (733 words)

	Thinking Faster: Process Management
		The business processes and systems were faulty and a constant roadblock to getting anything done, so a few people in each business function did heroic things to overcome poor processes and systems.
		They found that many processes had a significant amount of time that was not adding value to the process.
		Now, their point was to encourage businesses to improve the customer order process and make it more efficient, to remove time from the process that did not add value to the order.
	workingsmarter.typepad.com /my_weblog/process_management (3430 words)

	Thoughts about the Thinking Process
		It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
		This level of mental processing should not be minimized with respect to its importance and complexity.
		Finally, the claim is made that what is rational to the individual is what that individual thinks will maximize her pleasure and minimize her pain over the short and/or long haul.
	perspicuity.net /common/response.html (5803 words)

	Perception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These are ‘thinking safe’ environments that overcome much of the fear people feel when speaking out or discussing new ideas in case they get into trouble, step on the leader’s toes or are ridiculed for their ideas.
		Free Thinking Zones generate an environment of mutual trust and respect, inclusivity and diversity which produces incredible results in the thinking and subsequent decision-making processes.
		Very often, problem-solving is a selective and exclusive process involving the leadership who often put out fires, rather than training their people to prevent them.
	www.transformationalthinking.com /html/perception.html (589 words)

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		We endure our great troubles because our thinking is disconnected from, and oblivious to, their remedy in the healing flow of natural systems.
		Too often we forget that nature has the profound ability to heal itself, be the injury a bulldozed landscape, a scraped knee or an emotional hurt.
		Think of all the lonely people who have no idea that we are so connected to nature.
	www.ecopsych.com (4926 words)

	Working Paper: Creativity Models
		Arieti (1976) catalogued eight models of the creative thinking process that were proposed during the period 1908 to 1964.
		Wertheimer (1945) assert that the process of creative thinking is a integrated line of thought that does not lend itself to the segmentation implied by the steps of a model.
		In contrast to the prominent role that some models give to subconscious processes, Perkins (1981) argues that subconscious mental processes are behind all thinking and, therefore, play no extraordinary role in creative thinking.
	www.directedcreativity.com /pages/WPModels.html (2475 words)

	Process Thinking
		Process Thinking and the 85/15 Rule Applied to Education
		Simply put, a process is a series of related tasks, activities, or events that lead to particular result or outcome.
		The importance of process thinking can not be over emphasized.
	www.grand-blanc.k12.mi.us /qip/ProcessThinking.htm (478 words)

	TRIZ Thinking Hats
		The Six Thinking Hats concept is built on the fact that the human brain works in different modes depending on the sort of task it is being asked to perform.
		Red Hat thinking mode can also be used to good effect at times during a problem solving session to break out of the rut that can sometimes occur if participants have been kept in other thinking modes - but particularly White Hat - for extended periods.
		Provocations like ‘spend five minutes thinking about the worst possible means of solving the problem’ have not uncommonly generated some interesting and subsequently viable solution options.
	www.triz-journal.com /archives/2001/03/b (2265 words)

	Thinking Skills & Methods in Education (comparing four frameworks)
		In Dimensions, Chapter 1 — Thinking as the Foundation of Schooling — emphasizes the centrality and importance of thinking in education.
		In an infusion approach there is a dual emphasis on content and process, on conceptual knowledge and procedural knowledge, on deeper understanding and improved thinking.
		Second, although it is closely related to the four-frame model, scientific method is more familiar to scientists, study-of-science scholars, educators, teachers, and students, so it may be easier to communicate ideas effectively if they are expressed in terms of scientific method, used by itself or in conjunction with the four frames of knowledge.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/education/think/skills.htm (3040 words)

	Goal Systems International - The Logical Thinking Process
		The Dettmer approach to the thinking process is built into Seagate Six Sigma training.
		The logical thinking process (TP), developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, attacks the problems of organizational improvement from a system, rather than a process perspective.
		The icing on the cake must be Bill’s friendly attitude and clear love of his subject—all resulting in a genuine commitment from all the participants in the exercise.
	www.goalsys.com /services/thinkingprocess.htm (1080 words)

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