The Problem with Problem Analysis
© 2004, Coert Visser In a previous article I claimed that everybody is frequently confronted with problems. Paying attention to problems is not only inevitable it can also be useful. You can deal with problems in a variety of ways but these ways are not all equally effective. How precisely you pay attention to problems matters a great deal. This article compares problem analysis, problem denial and problem acknowledgement and recommends for the latter. Problem analysis is sometimes useful….. Problem analysis can be defined as dissecting and thoroughly studying the problem with the objective to understand how the problem emerged and how it grew to its current proportions. Analyzing problems is useful when dealing with many medical and technical problems. The assumption behind problem analysis is that there is a clear cause and a clear solution. And indeed it can be useful in many situations to find out what caused a problem and how the problem developed. Because if you would succeed in...