'Garden' & 'Kitchen' phases
The individual ideation 'Garden' phase is followed by the idea integration 'Kitchen' phase... More

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... More

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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