Description:
Identifying the combination of people and different techniques (including quantitative and non-quantitative, the mathematical, the hunches, the insights, the guesses), to innovate or to advance the decision-making process in planning. Essential to this process is ensuring that only techniques relevant to the problem and only the relevant parts of each applicable technique are used.
Context:
Synectics is derived from a Greek term meaning the fitting together of different and apparently irrelevant elements. The term synectic relevance is used to denote the applicability of a technique.
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies