Creative Problem Solving Tools For Entrepreneurs
By ajay at October 27, 2011 | 12:37 pm | Print
Here are few Creative Problem Solving Tools For Entrepreneurs.
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Simplex Process is a creative tool for entrepreneurs.It’s step-by-step tool helps you identify and solve problems creatively and effectively.
It guides you through each stage of the problem-solving process, from finding the problem to implementing a solution.
This helps you ensure that your solutions are creative, robust and well considered.
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Need to filter out your creative ideas?Then use PINC Filter. PINC filter is useful to identify the positive and negative aspects of the idea to decide whether or not to carry the idea forward for further development.
PINC filter aims to help you select the right ideas which you can carry forward to the next stage of development.
You should use the PINC filter after you have reduced the number of ideas to a very short list. Each PINC evaluation is not short, and evaluating many ideas would take a long time. Typically you need less than six and ideally only two or three.
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Six Thinking Hats, a thinking skills training course from Edward de Bono, teaches parallel thinking as an alternative to argument. Parallel thinking guides thought processes in one direction at a time so we can effectively analyze issues, generate new ideas, and make better decisions.
The Six Thinking Hats are metaphorical hats that you can “put on” or “take off” to indicate the type of thinking that you are using. When using Six Thinking Hats in a group, everyone wears the same hat at the same time (parallel thinking).
Six Thinking Hats helps put our opinions and egos aside so we can focus on a way forward, without argument.Six Thinking Hats training is fast-paced, practical, and interactive. Participants learn how to separate emotion from facts, the positive from the negative and critical thinking from creative thinking.
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Reframing Matrix aims to help you to look at business problems from a number of different viewpoints. It expands the range of creative solutions that you can generate.
The approach relies on the fact that different people with different experience approach problems in different ways.
What this technique helps you to do is to put yourself into the minds of different people and imagine the solutions they would come up with.
