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Your Kick A** Idea Workshop

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I. You have 30 seconds

• II. How many uses of a paperclip can you think of?
• III. Write them all down

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Time’s Up

Uses of a Paperclip

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I.

• riginality (did someone else also say your use)
• II. fluency (total number of responses)
• III. flexibility (total number of categories)
• IV. elaboration 


“a doorstop” = 0 
 “a door stop to prevent door slamming shut in a strong wind” = 2,

Scoring

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• Creativity comes from creative types
• Money is a creativity motivator
• Time pressure fuels creativity
• Fear forces breakthroughs
• Competition beats collaboration
• A streamlined organization is a creative
• rganization

Myths about Creativity

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The earliest ideas are

• ften the least creative.

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Bridge out before you start crossing off ideas

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It’s difficult to be innovative if you’re following 
 blind assumptions.

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“It’s easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.”

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Alex F. Osborne 9

Follow through on ideas. Extend, combine, and converge.

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A meeting where no one took notes is a meeting that never happened.

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Idea Generation Techniques

• Problem reversal
• Assumption smashing
• Random input visual
• Forced analogy

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Problem reversal

• What could you do to make the problem the worst
• situation. (Dentist)

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Assumption Smashing

• Actively look for your assumptions & break them

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Random Input Visual

• Open a dictionary to a random page
• Use tarot cards
• Random Sub-reddits

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Forced analogy

• Love is like epoxy.
• (no use if you lack knowledge of a thing)

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• I. Defer Judgement

II.Seek quantity not quality III.Question assumptions IV.Go over the top V.Follow through VI.Take Notes

Follow the Rules

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Group Formation

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An attempt to form diverse groups. There are no shortcuts Constraints help Ignorance doesn’t Laugh

Mini Exercise Pick an Object

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Collaborative Idea Generation

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Start Solo Go around the group Get input from everyone Document ideas If you hit a dead end start smashing assumptions and bring ideas together Remember the rules Celebrity Vegetable Action Verb

Contact:

Thomas Price tom.price@uwaterloo.ca