BIG PICTURE Vs. details by JOHN JAN POPOVIC

Compartmentalisation of knowledge
- Knowledge compartmentalisation inhibits cross-fertilisation of ideas and leads to duplication of research effort.
- Experts may solve problems of one discipline using principles of another discipline.
- Integrate disciplines with a unifying theory; establish trans-disciplines e.g. General System Theory and Informing Science; use inter-disciplinary knowledge-transfer.
- Influence fashions with methods of Consumer Behaviour.
- Researchers may publish on the web page or in the popular press; or form new schools of thought.
- Publicise in academic, professional and popular journals; use techniques of national and organizational politics under the banner of academic freedom.
- De Bono’s lateral thinking
- Agencies should be made aware of the history of science; researchers may strive for financial independence, or disguise fundamental as mundane research.
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Lateral vs. Critical thinking
While critical thinking is primarily concerned with judging the true value of statements and seeking errors, Lateral thinking is more concerned with the movement value of statements and ideas. A person would use lateral thinking when they want to move from one known idea to creating new ideas. Edward de Bono defines four types of thinking tools:
3. "Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perceptions"
With logic you start out with certain ingredients just as in playing chess you start out with given pieces. But what are those pieces? In most real life situations the pieces are not given, we just assume they are there. We assume certain perceptions, certain concepts and certain boundaries. Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. Lateral thinking is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.
* AHA MOMENT HEUREKA - Idea generating tools that are designed to break current thinking patterns - routine patterns, the status quo
2. "You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper"
This means that trying harder in the same direction may not be as useful as changing direction. Effort in the same direction (approach) will not necessarily succeed.
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BIG PICTURE ORIENTATION: Where you’re going?
“Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going, and you don’t know quite where you are.”
– Danny Thorpe
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BIG PICTURE Vs. details: or "Can not see the forest for the trees" phenomena
Meaning you're focusing on details too much and can't see the "big picture."
Proverbial meaning: Cannot perceive the overview or important things because of concentrating too much on details. The information presented in this textbook is so disorganized that I can't see the wood for the trees. The politician's opponents claimed that she couldn't see the forest for the trees, because she spent so much time trying to solve minor problems.
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Compartmentalisation of knowledge phenomena
My objection to the compartmentalisation of knowledge goes beyond its artificiality. I believe that it is actually dangerous, and detrimental to learning. It is dangerous because every domain of human knowledge has a moral dimension. We do not have the right to impose our own moral and ethical viewpoints on our clients, but we have a responsibility to remind them that actions and decisions have consequences. As professional solution providers, we are supposedly helping our clients develop skills and characteristics that will serve them.
Compartmentalisation is detrimental to learning in that it robs customers of the opportunity to immediately anchor new knowledge in the context of what they know and value. It is widely recognised that such anchoring is a valuable learning tool. Adding context to our SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS increases CUSTOMER interest, and may even inspire to explore new serendipitous inventions on their own.