When people try to come up with solutions to a problem, they typically do one of two things: 1. Look at the problem and determine if there is an obvious, reasonable idea that pops out -or- 2. Participate in a brainstorming session where one throws out possible solutions with minimum judgment. Both of these are valuable …
Invented in Japan by Yasuo Matsumura, the Lotus Blossom technique adds focus and power to classic brainstorming. Once mastered, the technique helps you create more and higher quality ideas for products and services, find innovative ways of improving your business, and helps you solve a variety of problems you frequently encounter. What’s the big idea? …
The creative challenge technique helps you to discover problems you don’t even know exist by helping you question the world around you. You uncover hidden problems by actively asking ‘why are things the way they are?’ Newly discovered problems can be used as seeds for possible solutions, or in the case of a business, a …
The Creative Challenge was covered in another article, which was all about finding problems via examination of existing solutions are solving and then coming up with alternative solutions. With the simple creative challenge you ask the why’ question only in the first step, and then immediately go on to extract the underlying problem and alternative …
