Thoughts and Notes From Idea Generation class pt. 2
Green Field or Blue Sky – UoM on the moon
Serious – more realistic
Backyard – your problems
CPS relationship:
1. Focus tools to avoid wasting time
2. Generation of alternatives is important
a. Sometimes, we find one fix, use it and it fails a little later. A little extra time spent exploring could have revealed a better solution – saving time and money.
3. Treating ideas – making them usable
There must be:
Belief that alternatives are worth looking at
Discipline – focus, no chitchat, suspend judgment
Skill – know how
The CPS builds the context before the idea generation.
Idea generation:
Elaboration
Fluency
Flexibility
Originality
Random word can be used to generate originality
After all of the ideas are generated, take six to 10 of the most promising and converge.
Solution finding helps identify all the problems beforehand.
List all of the factors, use CAF (Consider All Factors)
Select the most important factors
Use a weighted grid analysis
Acceptance finding
People must be able to accept the idea. It is important to communicate it correctly.
Plan of Action
Implement the idea
o Project management
o A Gantt chart may be helpful
Concept Triangle
· Define the purpose
· Think of ideas and choose one
· Extract a fixed point
· Generate ideas from the fixed point
“It’s a good mess.”
“You can learn to be creative.”
“Make the time for thinking.’
Brainstorming includes:
Reverse brainstorming
Brainwriting
Starbursting
Reverse brainstorming involves reversing the question. Rather than asking how something can be made better, the question is how it ca be made worse. Once ideas have been generated for the worsening of the situation, it is time to reverse those ideas and see if there are any solutions.
Brainwriting can be done through email, is good for those who may be quiet during meetings, and it affords people the opportunity to think about the question and build off the ideas of others. The group should not be larger than eight.
In person, brainwriting can be done on sheets that are divided into squares. Each person gets a sheet and fills in three ideas. The sheets are put in the middle of a table and passed around until they are full. This is a single person process, so there should be very little talking during the process.
Starbursting asks people to ask questions regarding the who, what, where, why, how and when of a problem or situation. Good for planning, it is important to focus on the questions before answering any of them. The base questions can be used to form a six pointed star from which the other questions get generated.
See notes from previous lectures
Serious – more realistic
Backyard – your problems
CPS relationship:
1. Focus tools to avoid wasting time
2. Generation of alternatives is important
a. Sometimes, we find one fix, use it and it fails a little later. A little extra time spent exploring could have revealed a better solution – saving time and money.
3. Treating ideas – making them usable
There must be:
Belief that alternatives are worth looking at
Discipline – focus, no chitchat, suspend judgment
Skill – know how
The CPS builds the context before the idea generation.
Idea generation:
Elaboration
Fluency
Flexibility
Originality
Random word can be used to generate originality
After all of the ideas are generated, take six to 10 of the most promising and converge.
Solution finding helps identify all the problems beforehand.
List all of the factors, use CAF (Consider All Factors)
Select the most important factors
Use a weighted grid analysis
Acceptance finding
People must be able to accept the idea. It is important to communicate it correctly.
Plan of Action
Implement the idea
o Project management
o A Gantt chart may be helpful
Concept Triangle
· Define the purpose
· Think of ideas and choose one
· Extract a fixed point
· Generate ideas from the fixed point
“It’s a good mess.”
“You can learn to be creative.”
“Make the time for thinking.’
Brainstorming includes:
Reverse brainstorming
Brainwriting
Starbursting
Reverse brainstorming involves reversing the question. Rather than asking how something can be made better, the question is how it ca be made worse. Once ideas have been generated for the worsening of the situation, it is time to reverse those ideas and see if there are any solutions.
Brainwriting can be done through email, is good for those who may be quiet during meetings, and it affords people the opportunity to think about the question and build off the ideas of others. The group should not be larger than eight.
In person, brainwriting can be done on sheets that are divided into squares. Each person gets a sheet and fills in three ideas. The sheets are put in the middle of a table and passed around until they are full. This is a single person process, so there should be very little talking during the process.
Starbursting asks people to ask questions regarding the who, what, where, why, how and when of a problem or situation. Good for planning, it is important to focus on the questions before answering any of them. The base questions can be used to form a six pointed star from which the other questions get generated.
See notes from previous lectures