'Garden' & 'Kitchen' phases
The individual ideation 'Garden'
phase is followed by the idea integration 'Kitchen'
phase...
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Spiral Integration
of Ideas (SPIN)
SPIN utilizes each idea’s greatest value to enhance the value of
other ideas. It helps build both horizontal and vertical synergies
among diverse ideas...
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KoRe 10 Innovative Thinking Tools (10 KITT)
Kore 10 Innovative Thinking Tools (10 KITT) are relevant and rich
metaphors for the kind of things we work on in life and business
when we need to design
innovative entrepreneurial strategies, find creative solutions
to a complex problem, invent new things, anticipate opponents' moves
and spot trends, master
systematic and
systems thinking, and build synergies...
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Divide Time Between
Divergent and Convergent Thinking
You must divide time between the left-brain and
right-brain activity to achieve better creativity results.
The left brain works more with logic and analysis, the right works more with
emotions and
imagination.
Intuitive, emotional, and
→
creative work
is performed by our right brain...
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Brainstorming
is used to generate a large
number of alternative solutions to a problem in a short period of
time.
Leveraging
opposite forces
harnessing the power of diversity,
creating
cross-functional teams to
facilitate
intellectual
cross-pollination and merge knowledge from diverse disciplinary
and personal perspectives.
Balancing
balancing between
authoritarian and anarchistic management approaches (→
Loose-Tight Leadership); creating a delicate balance between
teamwork and
individual creativity
Nominal
Group Technique
used in management planning activities to create managerial
contingencies and future projections.
Delphi Technique
used to identify future trends or any other purpose, when personal
interaction may influence the quality of the information generated. |
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