Evaporating cloud

In Bach's 1977 book Illusions, the main characters remove storm clouds from the sky by thinking them away.

The evaporating cloud tool is intended to similarly "vapourize" difficult problems by resolving an underlying conflict.

The general process for applying an EC to problem solving is described by Cohen (2010) as follows:[8]: 676 Clouds are "built" by filling in the appropriate boxes with statements about the situation.

Below is a guide to the recommended sequence and questions for building Day-to-day Conflict or Inner Dilemma clouds.

[8]: 711 Goldratt has illustrated the use of the evaporating cloud technique in a discussion of the Economic production quantity model.