Toolbox for Team Work

The following are tools you may need during your team brainstorm:

Multi-dimentionality... will help your team better understand the problem.

1.  Brainstorm diverse ideas.
2. Identify perceptions outside your cultural norms.
3. List incentives that may further your ideas.

Three questions that IDEO (a global design consultant) suggest you begin with:

1. What is desired by the audience?
2. What is technically and organizationally feasible?
3. What is the viability of the generated ideas?

 

View the issue from different sides of the problem...

Jay Walker, founder of Priceline and 2009 Innovator of the Year stated, 

"If you cannot find at least 6 sides to a problem you are not looking hard enough."

 Walker's approach to innovation details the need to recognize and gather random knowledge in a purposefully way to create a combination of each data point that will spur an innovative solution. The views below are just the beginning of what should be considered when trying to problem solve.

Identify cause and effects of the problem at hand 

 Finally move to generating solutions:

Is the problem standard, unique, or both?

Brainstorm possible solutions.

Identify a clear process or steps for each viable solution.

Classify solutions by # of Pro's, Con's.

Identify Con's that can be neutralized.

Take Action: Create a presentation that can be used to "sell" your solution!