{"id":26,"date":"2008-11-28T15:51:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T15:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2024-02-29T13:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:39:45","slug":"the-de-bono-weekly-message-computer-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/the-de-bono-weekly-message-computer-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"The de Bono Weekly Message &#8211; Computer Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 394.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">There is a growing tendency for corporations to feed all available data into a computer. The computer analyses the data and this shapes the strategy of the corporation and makes decisions. This is a dangerous tendency because thinking is locked into the old concepts which form the basis of the analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 394.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">There is a need for creative thinking in order to look at information in different ways. This is quite separate, and additional, to the use of creativity to find new ways of using the data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 394.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">There are examples of medical research which seems to prove a point but only because the original data has been assumed to be one thing when it was actually another. Does smoking cannabis produce schizophrenia or do people with a schizophrenic tendency enjoy smoking cannabis more than others?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 394.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><a title=\"Who is Dr Edward de Bono?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/about-us\/edward-de-bono\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Edward de Bono<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8211; is the worlds leading authority on the use of creative thinking in business.\u00a0 To learn Dr de Bono\u2019s revolutionary thinking tools, join us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>www.indigobusiness.co.uk<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and be trained by an officially recognised de Bono Master Trainer.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a growing tendency for corporations to feed all available data into a computer. 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