GOD

Just as divergent thinkers have a slower initial pick up in information (as they bind that into their total knowledge), I would also hazard a guess that actually extracting that information into a written format is equally as difficult.

Simply, as one piece of knowledge is attempted to be extracted it follows that everything that is connected to it merits some degree of explanation. Written reports are not mind maps. Yes, we can talk of relevance, but what of different relevance’s to different scenarios and all the combinations?

The reason I say this, is I have sat more than a few times with senior stakeholders and told them what the answer is (I know it intuitively), and then we try to explain that in a report and given the huge amount of detail it’s seriously difficult. I actually have used a "business analyst" as a filter because trying to condense what I have thought is incredibly difficult especially when there is more than one answer.

So, what I am saying is that divergent thought process by their very nature are divergent and trying to make them convergent into a report is no easy task, the more divergent the harder it is. Get a linear thinkers report and ask them incisive questions and generally they haven't thought out those distant steps, hence they have it easier when writing a report as they seem to have only one answer in mind.