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How to paradox your solution?

Posted on 28/02/2013 by Petronela Eviaková
Posted in Creative projects Tagged Bratislava, Creative LAB, Methods of creative thinking, Paradox Solutions

Many leaders talk about creating disruptive innovation but only few are able explain to you where to start and how to do it. Imagine you are managing a team of 5-10 people. The top management is pushing you to come up with something new, something…

Innovate services with SCAMPER

Posted on 06/10/2011 by Petronela Eviaková
Posted in Creative projects Tagged Methods of creative thinking, Sales & Marketing, Service innovation

What is it? SCAMPER is a check-list of questions fostering creative thinking. Some questions were created by Alex Osborn, so called “father of brainstorming”, and then organized into this mnemonic by Bob Eberle. S(Substitute)+C(Combine)+A(Adapt)+M(Magnify)+P(Put to another use)+E(Eliminate)+R(Reverse) How does it work? This method helps you…

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6 Thinking Hats (and one theft)

Posted on 18/07/2010 by Petronela Eviaková
Posted in Creative leaders Tagged Edward de Bono, Methods of creative thinking, Parallel thinking, Six Thinking Hats, Strategic management

Six Thinking Hats is a creative method of individual or collective thinking developed by Edward de Bono. It is based on the principle of parallel thinking instead of argumentation and discussion used in traditional thinking. Parallel thinking enables organizing the reflection in 6 different perspectives…

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Adams’ swimming pool puzzle – solution

Posted on 30/05/2010 by Petronela Eviaková
Posted in Creative projects, Inspiration Tagged Brainteaser, Creative games, Creativity, Creativity development, Methods of creative thinking, Solution

Of course this puzzle could have several solutions. When this question was asked to a group of children, they suggested that Adams family could: – enlarge the swimming pool and keep trees where they are on the small islands – make the swimming pool twice deeper…

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Adams’ swimming pool puzzle

Posted on 23/05/2010 by Petronela Eviaková
Posted in Inspiration Tagged Brainteaser, Creative games, Creativity, Creativity development, Methods of creative thinking, Outside the box thinking, Puzzle

Adams’ family has a square swimming pool. At each corner there is a tree. As the family has many members, they wish to enlarge their swimming pool and make it 2 times bigger. But they wish to keep square size and at the same time…