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Implement At this point, you have some great ideas. However, a lot of people have trouble motivating themselves to take the next step. Creative ideas may mean big changes or taking risks. Some of us love change and risk. Others are scared by it. Formulate an action plan with the simple steps you need to take in order to implement your ideas. Start by identifying resources and actions that will allow you to implement your chosen solution. Next, communicate your plan and make sure that everyone involved understands and accepts it. Ideas that involve a lot work to implement can […]
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Develop This is the stage of CPS, where you begin to focus on evaluating all of your possible options and developing/formulating solutions. After you have written down all of your ideas, take a break. It might just be an hour. It might be a day or more. Then go through the ideas. Related ideas can be clustered and combined to form bigger ideas. Analyze whether potential solutions meet your needs and criteria, and decide whether you can implement them successfully. This is important. If you focus only on the “best” ideas or your favorite ideas, the chances are you will […]
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Last week, I covered step 1 of the CPS process – Clarify. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creative-problem-solving-step-1-marilyn-barefoot-1e/ Full disclosure … step 2 is my favourite – Ideate. This step is where we generate ideas that answer the challenge questions you identified in step 1. This is the stage where many people start, and which many assume is the only stage in creative problem solving. This is where brainstorming and other methods may be used to find the beginnings of a solution. Note that at this stage, it is only the germ of the initial idea is identified. If you try to jump to a […]
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Based on 60 years of study and practice in the field of creativity, we know that creative outcomes must be deliberate. We also know that the creative problem-solving (CPS) process is a universal set of four steps designed to frame a problem, find a novel solution, and formulate a plan of action. These CPS steps comprise the building blocks of innovation. First up: Clarify a problem, challenge, or opportunity. Clarify and identify the problem Identify the problem or goal and clearly define the parameters. The purpose of this is to completely understand what the issues are; it isn’t always exactly […]
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