Volume 2 Month 6 Day 15 – Tools for creating ideas

·        Absence Thinking: Think about what is not there .

·        Art streaming: Keep creating until you get through the blocks.

·        Assumption Busting: Surfacing and challenging unconscious assumptions.

·        Attribute Listing: Listing attributes of objects and then challenging them.

·        Brainstorming: The classic creative method for groups.

·        Braindrawing: Good for reticent groups.

·        Brainmapping: Combining brainwriting and mind-mapping.

·        Brainwriting: Group doodling for non-verbal stimulation.

·        Breakdown: Careful decomposition to explore the whole system.

·        Challenge: Challenge any part of the problem.

·        Crawford Slip Method: Getting ideas from a large audience.

·        A Day In The Life Of…: Building creative tension from contextualized situations.

·        Delphi Method: Explore ideas or gain consensus with remote group.

·        Doodling: Let your subconscious do the drawing.

·        Essence: Looking elsewhere whilst retaining essential qualities.

·        Forced Conflict: Using conflict to stimulate the subconscious.

·        Guided Imagery: Letting your subconscious give you a message.

·        How-How Diagram: Break down problem by asking ‘how’.

·        How to: Frame statements as ‘How to’ to trigger focused thinking.

·        Incubation: Letting the subconscious do the work.

·        The Kipling method (5W1H): Ask simple questions for great answers.

·        Lateral thinking: Thinking sideways to create new ideas.

·        Lotus Blossom: Unfold the flower of extended ideas.

·        Chunking: Go up and then down elsewhere.

·        Mind-mapping: Hierarchical breakdown and exploration.

·        Modeling: For the artist in everyone.

·        Morphological Analysis: Forcing combinations of attribute values.

·        Nominal Group Technique: Getting ideas with minimal personal interaction.

·        Pause: Think more deeply for a minute.

·        Post-Up: Brainstorming with Post-It Notes.

·        Provocation: Shake up the session by going off-piste.

·        PSI: Problem + Stimulus = Idea!

·        Random Words: Using a random word as a stimulus.

·        Rightbraining: Combine incomplete doodles around the problem.

·        Role-play: Become other people. Let them solve the problem.

·        Remembrance: Remembering solutions not yet discovered.

·        Reversal: Looking at the problem backwards.

·        Reverse Brainstorming: Seek first to prevent your problem from happening.

·        Rubber-ducking: Get someone else to listen to your talk.

·        SCAMPER: Using action verbs as stimuli.

·        Six Thinking Hats: Think comfortably in different ways about the problem.

·        Storyboarding: Creating a visual story to explore or explain.

·        Take a break: When creativity is fading.

·        Talk streaming: Just talk and talk and talk until you unblock.

·        TRIZ Contradiction Analysis: Use methods already used in many patents.

·        Unfolding: Gradually unfolding the real problem from the outside.

·        Value Engineering: Deep analysis to understand and innovate in areas of key value.

·        Visioning: Creating a motivating view of the future.

·        Wishing: State ideas as wishes to expand thinking.

·        Write streaming: Write and write and write until you unblock.

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Vishal Jain