6-3-5
This version of Card Writing is suited to teams of around six people. Approach Each team member receives three cards and writes one idea on each. The three cards are then passed to the neighboring team member, who writes a further [...]
Backward Mapping
Backward Mapping Also known as Backcasting. This highly effective method is missing from most textbooks on problem-solving, change, innovation and development. You imagine that the future has arrived and the problem has been solved or the outcome has been achieved. Then [...]
Backcasting
Backcasting See Backward Mapping
Storyboarding: Disney Creative Strategy
Storyboarding: Disney Creative Strategy Now, commonly known as storyboarding. Take your thoughts and those of others and spread them out on a wall as you work on a project or attempt to solve a problem. When you put ideas on storyboards, [...]
Ladder Of Abstraction
In Neuro-Linguistic Programming, this method is called Chunking Up and Down. There are two main versions of the Laddering method. Version 1 Method Version 1 is about levels of abstraction. To move up a level, from the specific to the more [...]
Chunking Up And Down
See Laddering of Abstraction.
Force Field Analysis
Explanation added soon.
Delbecq and van de Ven
Also known as Blocks and Barriers, it is useful in situations where different interest groups have different perceptions of the same problem. Approach The group can contain up to twelve members. Each member brainstorms blocks and barriers which contribute to the [...]
Blocks And Barriers
See Delbecq and van de Ven method.
Swiping
This is an Ideas Across Frontiers method that involves taking an existing idea from another field and adapting it. See also Parallels.