1: read about Category Busting in the book Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organizational Effectiveness. I had never heard this term but it related a lot to what I've been reading about generating big-ideas and Idea Development so I made sure to explore the topic in depth and add it to my Knowledge-Management system.
MyThought - CriticalThinking is a (the?) Process of evaluating and creating information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom from Data. Following this process helps you create big-ideas and is an effective process of Idea-Development. Critical thinkings 'output' is Understanding and is a type of SyntheticThinking . The information that is inputted (through fact-finding & the knowledge we already have) are the bits of data that AnalyticalThinking is concerned with.
MyThought | SyntheticThinking is a step in insight development Idea Development big-ideas where you think about the raw information AnalyticalThinking you've brought together in a research process. This step is where you explore how the different "sub systems" interact and influence each other as a whole; what relationship & implications arise out of their interactions? What other systems interact with them? The deduction you create from this type of thinking creates insights insight. Nugget