1. Brain blast How to Generate Creative Ideas: An Introductory Seminar
2. Positive Thinking-A Poem Little bird in the Sky Dropping shit into your Eye You don’t get upset, and you don’t Cry You just Thank God that Elephants do not Fly! 08:27
3. How Ideas are Generated? Generating ideas is not a chance process. Ideas appear to arise when people are actually looking for them. It happens to people who are Curious or inquiring. Engaged in a search for opportunities, possibilities, answers or inventions. 08:27
4. We All See Things Differently Finance R&D Marketing
15. Creating an Innovation Pipeline CAPTURE CATEGORIZECOMMERCIALIZE Inefficiencies Opportunities Trends Gaps Needs Customers Markets Applications Competition Technology Evaluate and prioritize continually in order to choose those to pursue and those to dismiss. Create new products, services, processes and procedures that build on core competencies and are profitable. New Products and Services Ideas from Team or Individuals Ideas are researched, evaluated, and prioritized High-potential ideas are given resources and a development timeline New Processes and Procedures
17. Innovation Defined Any IDEA that reduces cost, saves time, delights a customer, creates revenue, increases margins, or improves employee satisfaction qualifies as INNOVATION.
25. Coordinating knowledge and effort in a spirit of harmony to attain a definite purpose that multiplies individual intelligence in an expanding framework of positive, creative energy.”
41. Cause & Effect Diagram Cause Cause Cause Cause Cause Cause Effect or Problem Cause Cause Cause Cause Cause Cause 08:27
42. Steps Identify the problem Work out the major factors involved Identify possible causes Categorize cause Use “Why” (Socrates approach) to find root cause. Example: 08:29
44. “An idea is fragile. It can be killed by a scornful smile or a yawn. It can be mowed down by irony and scared to death by a cold look” (Charles Browe) “Most cultures throughout human history have not liked creative individuals. They ignore them or they killed them. It is a very effective way to stopping creativity” (Howard Gardner)
46. White Hat Information Facts List. Descriptions Objective
47. Yellow Hat Good Points Optimistic Approach What were the interesting parts of the problem? What are the positive aspects of the problem? Hope
48. Black Hat! Negative Points List Pessimistic approach What is wrong with plans? What were some of the problems encountered? How/Why did these occur? Cautious & careful
49. Green Hat Creativity something new. Innovative. Integrative Combining different domains of knowledge
50. Red Hat Emotions Gut Feeling How do you feel about the solution? Sixth sense! Worries Enthusiasm
51. Blue Hat Planning Practical steps Resource requirements Processes Milestones Roles and Responsibilities Control
54. Developed by Michael Michalko Steps Describe the problem Surround it with ideas using brainstorming techniques Unfold the lotus blossom Seek practical answers to the problem
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57. Exercise Social impact of internet and pornography. Limited family outdoor activity opportunities in Colombo Increasing Traffic Offences in Sri Lanka ATM Passwords A service for professionals with busy lifestyles Increasing electricity costs & pollution Growing cases of Internet Pedophiles
59. A metaphor is a thinking technique connecting two different universes of meaning, i.e. Feels like Heaven Flow of Time Fiscal Watchdog Iron Fist They key to metaphorical thinking is “similarity”. The human mind tends to look for similarities .
66. Exercise Generate Ideas for a new security system for a software company using the following metaphors. Cerberus A new service for a hotel using Heaven/Paradise 08:29
