B822 Residential School : Creative Problem Solving for business
Thursday, 19 Jan 2012, 22:01
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Thursday, 5 Jun 2014, 05:26
There's a way to generate ideas: this is it.
I have doodles, images, stuff on the iPad and memories bursting to get out. All from the B822 'Creativity, Innovation and Change' Residential School I attended last week. To some it was a freak show or a circus; I felt right at home. I'd spent a year, full-time doing things like this at the School of Communication Arts.
1) Random Stimulus
It was a small, plaster lobster. It was smiling.
2) Play Word Association
We chucked words out
(Abiding by 'ground rules' in relation to anything goes, support etc
3) Brainstorm
We took this further still. Ideas put in PostIts and stuck to some double-doors.
4) Cluster
We then, collectively, moved these ideas about until they formed a number of clusters. A cluster was then removed to another space where three A1 Flip Chart sheets of paper had been stuck together.
B822 Residential School : Creative Problem Solving for business
There's a way to generate ideas: this is it.
I have doodles, images, stuff on the iPad and memories bursting to get out. All from the B822 'Creativity, Innovation and Change' Residential School I attended last week. To some it was a freak show or a circus; I felt right at home. I'd spent a year, full-time doing things like this at the School of Communication Arts.
1) Random Stimulus
It was a small, plaster lobster. It was smiling.
2) Play Word Association
We chucked words out
(Abiding by 'ground rules' in relation to anything goes, support etc
3) Brainstorm
We took this further still. Ideas put in PostIts and stuck to some double-doors.
4) Cluster
We then, collectively, moved these ideas about until they formed a number of clusters. A cluster was then removed to another space where three A1 Flip Chart sheets of paper had been stuck together.
5) To make a mindmap. And here it is: