various factors about each of the potential solutions. You note down the good and bad points and other things which are relevant to each solution. Even at this stage you are not evaluating the solution because if you do so then you could decide not to write down the valid good points about it because overall you think it will not work. However you might discover that by writing down its advantages that it has a totally unique advantage. Only by discovering this might you choose to put the effort in to develop the idea so that it will work. Voting for the best Solution(s) This is the section where you look through the various influencing factors for each possible solution and decide which solutions to keep and which to disregard. You look at the solution as a whole and use your judgement as to whether to use the solution or not. You can vote using either a Yes/No/Interesting process or on a sliding scale depending on how good the idea is. Then you give a score of 3 for a Yes, 1 for an "Interesting" and -1 for a No, and then add up the scores and put them in order. Sometimes there will be times when pure facts and figures dictate which ideas will work and which will not. Othertimes it will be purely feelings and intuition which decides. Remember that intuition is really a lifetimes experience and judgement compressed into a single decision. By voting for the