Proven Approaches to Make Best Practices Stick

Consider the following quote from the Wall Street Journal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203686204577116691332544490.html

“The U.S. military left Iraq in December with new technologies that are likely to change the shape of future wars. But some of the skills developed alongside are in danger of falling away, several people throughout the ranks worry.”

A critical part of moving forward to address world issues effectively is capturing the problem solving, expertise, and approaches of past experiences.  Solving new problems based on the solutions of similar past problems is pervasive in everyday human problem solving.  All reasoning is based on past cases and personal experiences.  Every field from an auto mechanic to chef to lawyer has a formal process for using past cases for instruction.

Cases or project history can be leveraged in an operational manner as well.  Discovery Machine has developed a methodology for capturing expertise from past problem solving as an approach for best practice capture.  This is powerful because remembering past cases is natural.  Discovery Machine has made capturing and leveraging the past cases possible and sustainable.