Creating a Critical Thinking company needs to be a part of addressing the question that Melissa Korn presents in a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article, ″Bosses Seek ´Critical Thinking,´ but What Is That?″
Korn’s WSJ article notes that there has been a doubling of job posts for critical thinking since 2009; however, it is not clear what critical thinking means and how to measure it. One definition by New York University professor, Richard Arum, is that critical thinking is as an ability to cross-examine evidence and logical argument, to sift through all the noise. According to Wikipedia, the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking defines critical thinking as the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
Organizations benefit when they create an environment where there is a system that facilitates the critical thinking process by both individuals and teams throughout the enterprise. Creating a critical thinking company can be accomplished through the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system, which is described in the article ″Positive Metric Performance, Poor Business Performance: How Does This Happen?”
Within the IEE system, organizational critical thinking attributes are encouraged through data presentation and described roadmaps where both analytical and non-analytical tools are used. In the IEE system, predictive performance measures can be provided so that they are automatically updated, using the Enterprise Performance Reporting System (EPRS) software. The roadmaps for executing this critical thinking system are described in a five book series https://www.smartersolutions.com/books/
The 9-step IEE system described in the books provides a detailed roadmap for creating a critical thinking company. Two low-investment cost options for piloting this critical thinking system are describe at stop firefighting dot com. One should note that this approach for assessing the initiation of a critical thinking company has a money-back guarantee.
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