Gene Bellinger wrote: > More often than not it seems that models that people build are like > Cathedrals. In the process of construction they employ a substantial > amount of labor, material and staging as they work through the > process. Once the Cathedral is completed all that was used to build it > is removed and it remains as a structure for others to behold, though > more often than not others just find them confusing because all of > supporting developmental understanding is missing.
If this happens routinely you have a faulty problem solving process.
A good process automatically generates and preserves all important data, premises, rationale, and conclusions. These are the key output, not the model. In the difficult social problem solving process I use, the model is a mere byproduct used to illuminate the 22 steps of the process.