Collecting the Dots

Problem Formulation and Solution Elements

Martin C. Libicki, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger

Expert InsightsPublished Dec 20, 2004

Across a wide variety of endeavors, failure to anticipate disaster has been ascribed to the inability to “connect the dots.” But to “connect the dots,” one must first “collect the dots.” The authors investigate the barriers to circulating important information and describes approaches for bringing information together in a meaningful way and describe a formal process for collecting the dots.

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Libicki, Martin C. and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Collecting the Dots: Problem Formulation and Solution Elements. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2004. https://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP103.html.
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