Develop lots of creative ideas and then turn the best ideas into valuable innovative solutions. Examples of tools included are: Brainstorming with Note Cards, Mind Mapping, Attribute Brainstorming, SCAMPER, Affinity Diagram, etc.

Many people think creativity is the same as innovation. It’s NOT. It is relatively EASY to be creative but fairly DIFFICULT to be innovative. Creativity is coming up with new ideas or solutions. Typical brainstorming sessions can yield hundreds of creative ideas. Innovation is taking a creative idea and turning it into something of “value or profit”. About 1 in a 1000 creative ideas turns into an innovative idea.

The agenda follows a five step (task) process that promotes the same basic core qualities of creative geniuses. Since every situation is different, use only those questions and tools that fit your meeting or consider adding your own custom tools or questions.

Task 1: Describe the situation requiring innovative thinking
Task 2: Define innovation purposes, goals and outcomes.
Task 3: Define requirements that all ideas/solutions must meet.
Task 4: Prepare for creative thinking.
Task 5: Generate lots of creative ideas.
Task 6: Categorize and turn creative ideas into valuable innovative ideas and solutions.
Task 7: Prioritize Ideas and identify action steps.

MindSights software is a required pre-requisite for this course.

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