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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Today’s S.T.A.M.P.S. Types of Styles of When to use them How to use them Where to use them Why use them Creative Thinking S.T.A.M.P.S.

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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Tools/Techniques Single exercises, generally open-ended or right-brained in approach (flexible, fluent, spontaneous Approaches How exercises are done: individually, in pairs in teams, as a total group

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O. F. P. I. S. A. Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Model S.T.A.M.P.S. System

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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Problem Solving Fact Finding Problem Definition Idea Finding Evaluate & Select Plan Acceptance & Sell idea Action Generating Conceptualizing Optimizing Implementing Simplex by Min Basadur S.T.A.M.P.S. System

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck S.T.A.M.P.S. System

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck

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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck The Energizer Funny - Warm-ups & Energizers S.T.A.M.P.S.Tools

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck The Energizer Funny - Warm-ups & Energizers S.T.A.M.P.S.Tools

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Tools & Techniques Warm-Ups

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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck One or NO “straight lines” A wide crayon Pour paint on it Spray paint on it Squash paper up Line around world Dip in can of paint Cut dots out & line up Spiral from center out Wide paint roller/brush Fold drawing until overlap Write in cursive “4 straight lines” 3 lines Possible Solutions

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck One or NO “straight lines” A wide crayon Pour paint on it Spray paint on it Squash paper up Line around world Dip in can of paint Cut dots out & line up Spiral from center out Wide paint roller/brush Fold drawing until overlap Write in cursive “4 straight lines” 3 lines Possible Solutions Break the Box Step out Go around Over, under.

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Breaking Paradigms or simply Re-examining Re-stating Re-inventing the problem. Quickest way to Create or Innovate?

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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Cre 8 v W A R M - U P S Window Roof top Envelope 4 triangles Symbol for duct Top of a pyramid “x” marks the spot Under side of pyramid Close up view of fence Tent Logo Game board Ceiling light 4 arrow heads Decorated box Display shelf unit 2 overlapping triangles …….????????? Be more open to what is seen & What possibly Can be seen

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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Cre 8 v W A R M - U P S ?

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Aim for Common Agreement

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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Warm-Up Exercises Why do them?

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Warm-Up Exercises To open up a group or team's creative thinking Warm-Up Exercises are very helpful. The exercises help to loosen up paradigms, mindsets, and points of view that people bring to a creative thinking session. Some goals of Warm-Up Exercises are to encourage people to: a. look beyond the obvious or known answers (“correct” answers) b. stretch thinking c. breakout of/break from establish thinking d. look for multiple possibilities e. take on many different points of perspective f. practice producing a variety of potential solutions g. to take a few risks and play with ideas & possible solutions h. get discussion going I. raise interest level

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Tools & Techniques Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP cre8ng.com

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Tools Associations Free/Accidental/Forced Perspectives/Viewpoints New/Unusual/Strange Discoveries Unexpected, Obvious Imaginary Explorations Generate Openness Raise Energy

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Tools & Techniques Idea Generating Solution Generating Solution Selection

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Divergent Thinking Tool Brainstorming Alex Osborn’s Creative Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Divergent Thinking Tool Brainstorming or … hackneyed, cliché, name for badly run meetings.

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck = Divergent Thinking Tool Brainstorming Quantity breeds Quality Freewheeling of ideas Hitchhike/Combine Ideas No Judgement

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck = Divergent Thinking Tool Brainwriting Quantity breeds Quality Freewheeling of ideas Hitchhike/Combine Ideas No Judgement

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck = Divergent Thinking Tool Alphabetizing ABCDEFGABCDEFG HIJKLMHIJKLM NOPQRSTNOPQRST UVWXYZUVWXYZ

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck ABCDEFABCDEF GHIJKLGHIJKL MNOPQRSMNOPQRS YUVWXYZYUVWXYZ animal Alphabetizing

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck ABCDEFABCDEF GHIJKLGHIJKL MNOPQRSMNOPQRS YUVWXYZYUVWXYZ ProfessionsOccupations Famous People Heroes Super Heroes Alphabetizing

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck S. = substitute C. = combine A. = adapt, adopt M. = minify, magnify P. = put to other uses E. = eliminate R. = reverse Divergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck CHECKLIST S.C.A.M.P.E.R. S.C.A.M.P.E.R. is a form of CHECKLIST. A CHECKLLIST is a prepared list of words, verbs, questions that you can use that can spark new ideas, change your thinking or your point of view or even you mood and the direction your thinking at the moment and take you into many directions. S.C.A.M.P.E.R. was created by Bob Eberle, teacher/educational consultant in the 1970 s to teach the concept of CHECKLISTING to school children by using a memory device (acronym) that they could easily remember when they needed to generate new ideas or remember existing or past ideas. It is used as the foundation for Michael Michalko’s excellent Creative Thinking Tools book…THINKERTOYS. First Step Write out the word S.C.A.M.P.E.R. vertically on a piece of paper or on a flip chart/chalkboard or other surface that the group can see. Second Step Write out what the 7 letters stand for. Third Step Then use each of the 7 by asking questions using these verbs to improve/change/revise your challenge or problem to generate potential ideas and solutions. Fourth Step Read over the ideas you have produced and select the best To work on to turn them into HOT SOLUTIONS to use. Sample = Combine - what might we combine with our problem to improve it? Chair - new materials, sound, tastes, textures, arm rest, cushion Eliminate - what might we eliminate to improve the current chair produce a brand new one? Hinges, one of the legs, the back S. = substitute C.= combine A. = adapt, adopt M.= minify, magnify P. = put to other uses E. = eliminate R. = reverse Divergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Sample + = Idea Ideas Idea 2 Idea 4 Idea Grids Divergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Sample += Idea Ideas Idea 2 Idea 4 Vertical 2 = make the chair out of wood Horizontal 4 = make the color changeable Ideas might be….cover, removable film or skin Idea Grids First Step With this Cre8ng Tool we first generate 12 to 24 ideas through Brainstorming or any other technique. Second Step Then draw a grid made up of as many vertical and horizontal Cells as you have ideas. Third Step Combine the ideas on the vertical side of the grid With the ideas on the horizontal side one by one and write them into the separate boxes where the two ideas meet.. 6 ideas can Then produce 36 ideas, 12 can produce 24, ,000 Fourth Step Read over the ideas you have produced and select the best To work on to turn them into HOT SOLUTIONS to use. Divergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Idea or Morphological Grids Divergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Idea or Morphological Grids This is a logical/left-brain convergent tool that can be used to generate large numbers of ideas. 6 columns of 10 examples of each variable can produce 1,000,000 possible combinations. First Step Generate list of variables of problem or story Second Step Generate lists for each of the variables: i.e.: heroes: cowboy, Rancher, sheriff, shopkeeper, teacher, minister. Third Step Number each list for each variable 1 to 2 to 3 to …... Fourth Step Randomly pick one number for each variable column from 1 to ? Fifth Step Then write a story using one from each of the columns Sample Divergent Thinking Tool heroes heroines villians crimes locations Variables of story

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Idea or Morphological Grids

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Tools Idea Grid BreadMeat Top’gVegFruitSnackDessert

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Idea Grid BreadMeat Top’gVegFruitSnackDessert Creative Thinking Tools

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck WWWWWH? Creative Thinking Tools Who What When Where Why How ?

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck WWWWWH? Creative Thinking Tools Who What When Where Why How ? Else-ing

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP, DLA

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Converge

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Cluster/Clustering Convergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Hits & Misses Convergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Hits & Misses Hits & Misses is a convergent thinking tool used for quickly choosing ideas from several that have been generated. First Step Generate many ideas….24, 48, 144…..on Post-It notes or slips of paper or index cards or simply write them on a surface where everyone can see them easily. Second Step Tell the group to go up and scan the total group of ideas and mark which ones their “gut” tells them is a hit. No discussion. Just simply read and react. Or Tell the group to go up and move the ideas they think are HITS to an area labeled HITS and the MISSES to another area labeled thus. Leave the “NOT SURE” ones where they are. Third Step Then discuss, organize by popularity, group, cluster the ideas by categories. Fourth Step Select the one or more that can be used at the same time or the ones that can be combined into a single idea Sample Hits Unsure?Misses Convergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Tools Pluses Concerns Potentials PCP Pluses/Concerns/Potentials Convergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck PCP- Pluses/Concerns/Potentials Pluses/Concerns/Potentials a convergent thinking tool used for analyzing a list or group of ideas that have been generated by an individual or a group. First Step Narrow down the number of ideas to a comfortable number (3 to 6) Second Step Then one by one write out 3 lists of thoughts about each idea. a. Pluses of the ideas b. Concerns c. Potentials Third Step Then compare the results. Fourth Step If one idea falls behind the others yet the group seems more excited about it or committed to it, then go over each of the concerns and think of ways to eliminate or strength them with that idea. Sample = Idea 1 Make the chair out of XXX plastic and apply electrical lighting to it. Pluses - Plastic will be cheaper Lighting will make it more useable The plastic will provide more color options Concerns - We have no experience with plastic Electrical wiring will add cost It may be too easily tipped over Potentials - Could lead to a product that could be sold anywhere in the world. Could expand our technical capacities Could open up new markets for our other products. Convergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Tools Pluses Concerns Potentials PCP Pluses/Concerns/Potentials Convergent Thinking Tool Plus-ing

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Tools Idea 1 Idea 2 Idea 3 Idea 4 Idea 5 Idea 6 Idea 1 Idea 2 Idea 3 Idea 4 Idea 5 Idea 6 Idea 1 Idea 2 Idea 3 Idea 4 Idea 5 Idea 6 4 llllll Hits & Hits & Misses “Doting”, “Doting”, Ranking Convergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Tools #a. b.c.d.e * ? Value Grid Convergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Value Grids This is a logical/left-brain convergent tool that can be used to select ideas to turn into solutions First Step Generate ideas Second Step Select a workable number of ideas you or the group like Third Step Generate a list of values that final solution can be evaluated with. Fourth Step Examine each idea one by one for each value. Or Examine each value one by one comparing the chairs. Fifth Step If one idea ends up better from the analysis than one that you or the group have a strong feeling for then go back and re-evaluate the weak areas and strengthen or change them. Sample += Idea A. B. C. D. E. Values Idea B Value 4 Idea B = make the chair out of wood Value 4 = better aesthetics Wood would make it easier to tool, the grain will Give a natural beauty to the chair Convergent Thinking Tool

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Mood Changers Balloons Gimmicks Games Puzzles Contests Relay Races

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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Idea Grid Attribute Listing TRIZ S.C.A.M.P.E.R. Checklisting Brain Writing Excursions F orced R elationships Metaphors Writing Relay Group Excursions Guided Imagery

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Forced Relationships + = Divergent Thinking Tool

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Forced Relationships This is an idea generating technique that appears in many books about creative thinking and creative thinking or innovation tools. First Step choose something totally unrelated to the problem or challenge You or your group are working on. Second Step List everything you or your group know about it. (Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?… physical, visual, tactile,…all senses, good and bad) Third Step List everything you or your group know about your problem or challenge. (WWWWWH…and using all the senses) Fourth Step Take items/details/aspects from the first list and FORCE FIT them to features Or details from the second list. Your goal is to see if the features from The randomly chosen, unrelated thing/animal sparks ideas for improving, Changing, correcting features of the problem. A traditional example or warm-up for doing this consists of… 1st. Ask the person or group to write everything they know about a canary (or a bird in their country. 2nd. Ask the person or group to write everything they know about the chair they are sitting in. 3rd. Then I ask them to combine (FORCE FIT or make a FORCED Relationship) one item from the canary list with The chair’s list with the goal to improve, change, correct the chair design or to generate ideas for designing the ultimate chair. Sample + = Feathers-Soft + chair is hard = make seat soft Yellow + chair is ship gray = add color Divergent Thinking Tool

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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Style Models Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument MBTI KAI DISC Human Synergistics Kolb Dunn & Dunn Four-Sight M.I.N.D. Design M.I.N.D. Design ™ Square, squiggle, circle, triangle

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Rational, Logical, Analytical, Individual Systematic, equations, Step-by-step, Proven Answers Intuitive, Exploratory, Unknown, Fanciful Fun, Harmonious, Involving all, Family/Team

Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Idea Grid Attribute Listing TRIZ S.C.A.M.P.E.R. Checklisting Brain Writing Excursions F orced R elationships Metaphors Writing Relay Group Excursions Guided Imagery

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Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Creative Thinking Requires More than a Muse & Luck Contact information Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP Cre8ng People, Places & Possibilities P. O. Box 5805 Athens, Georgia