Powerful Ideation Tools

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10 Tips for Stimulating Radical Idea Generation

① Establish the spirit of relentless growth in your organization.

② Create strategic intent, set → stretch goals, emphasize a misfit between the current state and corporate aspirations, actively encourage the quest for new opportunities, and create and sustain strategic momentum for radical innovation... More

Divergence, or creative synthesis, is the interlocking of previously unrelated skills, or matrices of thought.

→ Creative Dissatisfaction

→ Entrepreneurial Creativity

The creation of such intellectual ferment is important to → innovation – the more options offered, the more likely that an out-of-the-box perspective will be available for selection. Suspend judgment. Just hearing a very → different perspective challenges the mindset of others sufficiently that they will search beyond what initially appears to be an obvious solution. This is a reason that intellectually heterogeneous cross-functional teams are more innovative than homogenous functional ones.  >>>

As soon as a sufficient choice of innovative ideas has been generated, a solution – convergence upon acceptable action – needs to be defined and agreed upon. 

Fast Evaluation of Ideas

Fast idea evaluation techniques are at the core of the ‘tight’ phase.

These techniques are based on corporate → guiding principles and may range from a simple → 80/20 assessment or 'Gold Coin cards' through weighted criteria to more sophisticated ‘4x2 perceptual positions’ and simulation games such as InnoBall.