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VE , CREATIVITY AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE Creativity and interpersonal skills seem to occupy one step in the VE Job Plan: Actually, the whole value process is creative and requires interpersonal skills The organization itself must be open to and ready to accept change. The project selection. One must try to sense the best opportunities to make a difference in cost, performance, and/or . Each person should come from a different discipline, bringing a point of view and premise not held by others.

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All must learn the value language to develop optimum solutions using the Job Plan. Results are gained from a creative climate, a new language, a stranger group, and an expectation that the project is larger than any one team member. The information step. Traditionally, the methodology urges us to gather more information, gather more exact information, place numbers on the key ideas, and build models for cost. All of these actions require new thinking

VE , CREATIVITY AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE Function analysis. Building

function/cost/worth analyses requires creativity in determining how to allocate cost and what alternatives are to be used to judge worth. It gives anew understanding of both the cost to perform a function and the amount of resources proposed to perform the function The creative step. The application of creative methods should ensure that creative ideas are many, diverse, and respected for what they represent-the

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The analysis step. This step involves

creative application of the evaluation process stimulating thought about advantages and disadvantages of all ideas, developing criteria for weighted evaluation, and ranking ideas. This step is an orderly approach to eliminating alternative solutions through a

positive process.

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The development step. This step is

creative in its insistence on bringing more facts to bear, including life cycle cost (LCC) and break-even analysis.

It is creative in its effort to

mitigate unfavourable features of ideas, in its analysis to anticipate potential roadblocks, and in its development of strategies to encourage implementation.

VE , CREATIVITY AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE Creativity goes further in anticipating, predicting, adapting to, and dealing with negativism and other forces that hinder implementation. If the entire process may be identified as creative, is there a real need to have a discrete step for creativity? If it is all creative organization in attitudes and expectations; project selection; team selection; methods used to gather information; function analysis; and so on-what is left for the phase called "speculative" or "creative"?

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The creative step is necessary to transform the team into a creative organization and process; produce and document alternative concepts; appreciate the accomplishment; and enable the team to use its results for the next steps in the Job Plan.

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