Strategic Problem Solving Focus on your desired strategic achievement VadiK Inventor Author Founder     Think and act strategically while addressing today's challenges       Idea Management Strategies Many factors affect your life and business. Strategic problem solving focuses on the most important ones – the key drivers and their interdependence. Ideas can be all over the place.         Identify the Desired Future State To develop ideas efficiently, you need to identify the desired future state you want to achieve as well as a strategy that addresses the identified problem. 5 Phases of Strategic Problem Solving ❶ structure the problem; ❷ define the desired result, constraints and strategy; ❸ gather data and analyze it; ❹ brainstorm ideas to develop recommendations; ❺ gain organizational buy-in     Objective is what you want to achieve. Strategy is how you propose to achieve the objective. Such strategic alignment defines which domains to explore and which ones to avoid.   Turn Problems to Opportunities Ask Learning SWOT Questions       3Bs of Strategic Creativity A SuperCreativity technique       To come out with a creative solution, use KoRe 3Bs Strategic Creativity technique: Brainstill to visualize the desired future; Brainstorm to generate strategic ideas that would get you there; Brainstill to visualize the resulting future and compare it with the desired one.       Re-brainstorm strategic ideas if you are not satisfied with the resulting future state.         The 3Bs Strategic Creativity technique works especially well if HIGHERsight is mastered     HIGHERsight  ▪  HIGHERsight vs. Insight Strategic Thinking Creativity  ▪  3 Levels of Creativity Disney Creative Strategy Futures Thinking  ▪  Holistic Thinking Strategic Alignment Creative Problem Solving KoRe 10 Innovative Thinking Tools   Keep learning forward. If you strop learning, you stop creating history and become history. VadiK Inventor Author Founder