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The Tortuous Path

Doing ng again ain

New Creation

Preparation

• Collecting and sorting relevant

information

• Analyzing the problem

thoroughly

• Exploring possible solution

Incubation

• Mental work
• Analyzing, synthesizing,

imagining and valuing

• Continues in subconscious mind
• The parts of the problem separate

and new combinations occur

Pattern Recognition/Creation

 Ability to recognize an emerging pattern  Identifying opportunity while it is taking

shape

 A process that is not logical, linear and

additive but intuitive

 Linking or cross – association of two or

more in – depth “chunks” of experience, know – how and contacts

 Ability to fit together seemingly unrelated

elements

Insight

• A new idea emerges, either gradually
• r suddenly – Eureka moment
• Often when you are in a relaxed

frame of mind and

• Are not thinking about the problem
• Incorrectly perceived as the only

component of creativity

Recognizing Relationships

 Many inventions and innovations are a result of the

 Inventor’s seeing new and different relationships

among

Objects, process, materials, technologies and

people

 To improve creativity, it helps for different or

unorthodox relationships among the elements and people around you

 Perceiving in a relational mode-viewing things and

people as existing in a complementary or appositional relationship

 Creative people are intuitively aware of this

phenomenon and develop

 a functional perspective towards things and people

Validation

• Thorough testing of a
• new idea,
• insight,
• intuition,
• hunch or
• solution
• Most difficult step

Executing the Innovation Process

Problem finding

‘fuzzy’ situation

Action Fact finding Problem definition Idea finding Evaluate & select Plan Acceptance ‘sell’ idea

IV Validation I Preparation II Incubation III Insight

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Asking Questions to Establish Facts

 What do you know, or think you know, about

these fuzzy situations?

 What do you not know about this fuzzy

situation (but you’d like to know)?

 Why is this a problem for you?  What have you already thought of or tried?  If this problem were to be resolved, what

would you have that you don’t have now?

 What might you be assuming that you don’t

have to assume?

Encourage the Cross Pollination of Ideas

 Capture knowledge and experience

available to everyone

 Periodically reassign technical specialists to

different work teams

 Arrange periodic supplier/ customer site

visits

 Benchmark with best practices in other

industries

 Keep track of developments in academic

disciplines

Turning Idea into Opportunity

 Do you really understand the situation?

A creative idea can fail because it does not

address the situation at hand

 Does your idea address the situation in a way

that solves a problem or makes an improvement?

 What are the advantages of the present

situation over your idea?

 What will it take to implement you idea?

Cost and Time

 Is your idea the best action that can be taken?

Approach to Directed Creativity

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 Focus

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 Defi

fine topics broadly

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few ideas

Practising Attention, Escape & Movement

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ay a attentio ion to th thin ings in in n new wa ways ys

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Feat

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What

at w works an and d what at d does n not wo work

Anything you normally don’t pay attention to

Practising Attention, Escape & Movement

 Escape your current mental patterns associated

with the topic

Time and place Early judgment Barriers and rules Your past experiences

 Keep moving in your thinking to avoid premature

judgment and satisficing

In time or place To another point of view Free association Building of new ideas

How Do You Approach Things? Through Analysis? Or Synthesis?

Sequential Processes

information linearly

Responds to

logic

Plans ahead Prefers formal

study design

Visual Random Processes

information in varied order

Impulsive Prefers frequent

mobility while studying

Analysis Synthesis

Recognizing Patterns and Establishing Relationships

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Triangle Ratios

Find the ratio of the areas of two equilateral triangles within and outside the circle

Triangle Ratios

Turning the triangle on its head gives us the answer 1:4

Cross out six letters from below, so that the remaining letters, without altering their sequence, spell a common English word.

NSAIFSPARSELAEL

Cross out six letters from below, so that the remaining letters, without altering their sequence, spell a common English word.

SAIFSPARSELAEL AIFPARELAEL IFPRELEL FPRELEL FRELEL FREE

Nine Dots

Your task is to join the nine dots below, using no more than four straight lines and without lifting your pen and pencil from the paper

Words beginning and ending with same letters-at least 5 letters long

Words beginning and ending with same letters-at least 5 letters long

 CIVIC  DIAMOND  EXAMPLE  FLUFF  LABEL  MAXIMUM  RUMOUR  SUCCESS  TREAT  WINDOW  XEROX  YUMMY  DREAD  SLASH

Heads and Tails

Arrange three coins in such a way that there are two heads on one side and two tails on other side.

Drinking Glasses

There are six glasses in a row. First three are full of water while next three are empty. By handling and moving, only one glass, arrange the six glasses so that no full glass stands next to other full glass and no empty glass stands next to other empty glass.

Drinking Glasses Pick, Pour and

Drinking Glasses Put Back!

Closing the Links

Cost t of opening a l a link Rs 2/- Cost t of closing a l a link R Rs 3 3/- Connect al t all th the 1 12 links into to a s a single c chai ain Cost t should not e t exceed R Rs 1 15/-

4 Men in Hats

4 men are buried upto their necks in the ground. They cannot move- so can only look forward. Two are wearing white hats and two are wearing hats with black checks but they do not know which hat they are wearing. They cannot talk or communicate. To avoid being shot, one of them must call out the colour of the hat. If they get it wrong, everyone will be shot. They have 10 minutes. After one minute, one of them calls out. Who? What did he say? Shot or escaped?

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