The Method
Every complex problem has a structure. Most of the time, we skip the structure and jump to the solution.
DMAIC — Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control — is a five-phase method developed for manufacturing, where it eliminated defects on production lines. It works by imposing a discipline that intelligent people consistently resist: slow down, quantify, find the root cause, design for the system, and build something that lasts.
Logic Method applies this discipline to problems that were never supposed to need it — cities, public policy, the gap between what the data says and what the decisions do.
The approach is simple. The execution is not.
Define — establish what the actual problem is, not what is visible or politically convenient. Measure — count what matters, not what is easy to count. Analyse — trace the root cause, even when it leads somewhere uncomfortable.Improve — design for the system, not the symptom. Control — make it survive the next election, the next budget cycle, the next administration.
Combined with systems thinking — the recognition that complex problems are interconnected and cannot be solved in isolation — the method becomes a diagnostic framework for any situation where smart people are reliably getting the wrong answer.
The Author
I have spent thirty years in industrial problem-solving — automotive plants, pharmaceutical facilities, production lines across six continents since 1996. The work is always the same: something is broken, the obvious explanation is wrong, and the fix requires looking at the system rather than the symptom.
One day I looked at the city where I live — Modena, Italy, 185,000 people in the Po Valley — and recognised the same patterns. The same diagnostic errors I had seen on factory floors were operating at city scale. The air quality data was impeccable and almost entirely unused. The traffic solutions reproduced the traffic. The recycling rate looked excellent until you measured what actually got recycled. Departments optimised their piece while the gaps between them produced the damage.
So I applied the method.
I chose to remain anonymous because the argument should stand on its numbers, not on a name. Logic Method is a pen name and a premise: that structured thinking, applied with discipline and real data, can clarify problems that intuition consistently gets wrong.
The Corgi
The book needed a narrator who could look at a city with fresh eyes — no political loyalties, no institutional memory, no species-specific blind spots. A quality engineer from another planet, arriving with sensors and a method.
A Pembroke Welsh Corgi was the obvious choice. Low to the ground. Close to the tailpipes. Unimpressed by credentials.
Logic has visited forty-five worlds. On every one, he found the same thing: a species intelligent enough to measure its problems and organised enough to solve them — that had done neither. Earth showed every sign of being the forty-sixth.