Card Decks
Includes: Angel Cards, Medicine Cards, OH! Cards, Psycards, Tarot Cards, and Zen Koan Cards. See also: Creative Whack Pack, Innovative Whack Pack, Cards from Solution People
Metaplan
A commercial (and often very effective) version of Brainstorming With Sticky Notes, that involves special equipment (marketed by two companies, Metaplan and Neuland) and a trained facilitator.
Idea Writing
Please see Brainwriting.
Card Writing
Approach Restate the problem or outcome as a series of "How To's"; select the most promising one; ask: “In how many ways can we …?”. Each person is given six 5"x3” cards (or Post-it Notes): five white and one pink. Ideas [...]
Brainwriting
This is also called a Cascade Session and Idea Writing and is similar to the 6-3-5 method. Approach Each group member writes down ideas silently on a piece of paper. These might be stimulated by an idea already generated. After three minutes [...]
Morphological Analysis
Originated by Swiss mathematician and astronomer Fritz Zwicky, this is a useful method when you need ideas for extending, modifying or improving an existing product or service. Approach First, make a list of each component or feature of the product, using [...]
Attribute Listing
Attribute Listing Description coming soon! 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques, pg 67 See also Morphological Analysis.
Sword
SWORD A proprietary version of Cube Crawling.
Multi-Choice Matrix
See Cube Crawling.
Cube Crawling
Cube Crawling A development of Morphological Analysis (a.k.a. Attribute Listing). Imagine Rubik's Cube or a fruit machine. Each of the three axes of the cube, or reels of the slot machine, represent a key variable such as: manufacturing process (reel 1), [...]