This analytical method or structured research was developed by
Prof. Fritz Zwicky of the Technical University of California. It
describes the most important parameters and their variables of
a problem and arranges
them in a coordination system.
In a problem that has 2
important performance parameters, the shape of the matrix would be
a rectangle, with 3
parameters it would be a cube. Such a model is called
a file box with
drawers. Each drawer is filled with a variant of, say, the
3 parameters. Some of these drawers are quickly filled with
existing concepts. A large number of drawers, however, are empty,
often because no one has yet thought of combining the possible
variants in this way.