Three step research process

Use your brains when developing abstract innovation. It is a game of 'balance': you think-up what is needed, you set goals that take advantage of your thinking, then you work towards your goals. If on the way something does not fit, review your goals or thinking. It is an iterative effort, you try, you repeat, until it works.

Here are the three iterative steps in more details:

1. State what you believe is true
2. Express implementation goals that will leverage your beliefs
• Check consistency of goals with respect to your environment and to underlying beliefs
• Correct your beliefs if inconsistencies are found between goals and environment
3. Develop towards your implementation goals
• Check consistency of development with respect to environment and underlying goals and beliefs
• Correct goals or beliefs if inconsistencies found between development and environment

At first, one tends often to 'juggle' and develop just one idea at a time, when developing this way. Yet with experience it becomes clear that it is the iterations that take much time, and therefore it is often worthwhile to think-up more than one idea, and bring them forward in parallel until the environment gives feedback, and one idea turns out to be better than another. Lean is therefore not always agile when working with abstract development.

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