Rich replies: My top objective is to provide you with StrongForm tools so you can easily and quickly manage your information to plan your work and work your plan.

- With StrongForms, you are not tied down to weak, simplistic, success-oriented methods.
How did you feel when you made your last few important decisions?
Were you confident that you had considered most, if not all, of the relevant factors?
Or, are you wondering when some oversights will come back to bite you?

- With StrongForms, you can use your database and/or word processing to document individual event details and then use your spreadsheet to create quantitative system analysis flowcharts for modelling with logical decision gates, called
Computerized Operational System Models for Integrated Control, "COSMICs";

- With StrongForms, you can integrate, with consistent look and feel, database or word processor and spreadsheet information so you can consider your planning and decisions from both detail and system aspects.
To paraphrase an old proverb, " Measure twice; decide once. "

- With StrongForm tools, you can document and retrieve information about supporting data, such as a knowledge engine, Inventories, Work Plans, Budgets and Tax Plans, and forms required by government agencies, such as OSHA, EPA, Workers Comp, and DOD.

The three main decision-making tools with database/word processor tables, forms, and reports and their related spreadsheet models are:
- Personal Information and Financial Management with PrsNote, LifePlan and BudTax;
- Organization Total Quality with Learning and Problem-Solving, LaPS, and LaPSMap;
- Safety with Hazards and Benefits, HazBen, Occupational Safety and Health and Environmental with OSHEP and Process Safety and Fault Tree.

Your three main decision-making module tools are linked with many supporting tools, as shown in the network diagram below.

- With StrongForms, you can strengthen your decision-making to make 'strong real-world decisions' by systematically considering the alternatives, problems, and hazards involved. In the Organizational Total Quality Management module, your StrongWare shows you how to use structured problem-solving teams with team members applying their individual learning styles to their best advantage. You can see more detail about the technique by going back to the Home Page and clicking on *Total Quality and Problem-Solving. An extract is displayed below showing the general arrangement of the multiple factors in rows and the comparison of the original 'Real' plus the 'Problems/Suggestion' versus the 'Pro' plus the 'Con' plus the 'Implement' aspects. You can see that you can consider as much or as little as you want to, including life-cycle costs and benefits. The StrongWare for Total Quality provides for evaluating production and schedule; the System Safety Hazard Report provides for comparing Power (or energy, or whatever you choose to measure and evaluate). The Personal Finance module provides for an Estimated condition and an Actual condition with the same factors; you can use two or more records for comparing alternatives. After you enter the primary data, all of the calculations are made automatically by your StrongWare.

5. Evaluation and Decision-Making :  
Period(MQYDC):  Y  Life~Per:  10.0  Ops/Per:  9999  Invest Rate: 0.080  Borrow Rate: 0.120

Units:  93US$k                    REAL:  PROB/SUG:      PRO:     CON: IMPLEMENT:  
      
P- Probable Occur per Period:    0.910     0.090     0.050    0.050     1.250  Total
M- Money Cost Expenses /Cash:   -99.00    -99.00    -90.00   -10.00    -20.00 Startup:
O- Operational Effect Output:   200.00      0.00    200.00     0.00      0.00  -50.00
S- Safety/ Environ/ Insuranc:   -10.00    -40.00    -10.00   -45.00    -10.00  
T- Time/ Schedule/ Opportuny:   -50.00   -250.00    -10.00  -100.00    -10.00  
F- Spec.Fac.special factor  :     0.00     50.00      0.00     0.00      0.00 Startup
Q- Qual.Met.quality metric  :     2.00    -10.00      0.00     0.00      0.00 Payment:
PPVs, Probable Period Values:    39.13    -31.41     85.50    -7.75           -8.85

Compare Problem vs. Pro+Con+Imp:    7.72 <vs.>   68.90=>   61.18 Avoid Break Even:  1.45

Probable Future Value, PFV:      112  <VS.>      998 =>    886  GAIN  Gain Ratio:  8.92

Quantity: Real;  100.00  Problem;  -10.00  Pro;  110.00  Con;  -5.00  
Prob.Per.Qty:     91.00            -  .90        104.50        -0.25  

Compare R+B vs. P+C:    90.10 vs. 104.25 => 14.15 Gain    141.50 Life Gain

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