Purpose: Identify the goal, wish, or challenge
Generate goal and/or wish statements. Use stems like; IW (I wish...) or IWBGI (It would be great if...)
Divergent questions:
Tools: Brainstorming, brainwriting, mindmapping
Choosing from your divergent thinking using the 3i’s - Is it important?, Do you have Influence? Do you need new Ideas?
Tools: Dot voting, highlighting, 3 “i”s
Outcome: Statement of Key Goal, wish or challenge to address
Purpose: Indentify data to enable a clear understanding or the challenge.
Divergent questions:
Tools: Brainstorming, 5 whys, 5 hows
Review and select the most important data
Tools: Dot voting, highlighting
Outcome
Significant data, information, and success criteria to enable a clear understanding of the challenge.
Purpose: Identify the real challenges that invite solutions
Divergent questions:
Tools: Brainstorming, Why whats stopping you...
Select the challenge statement that addresses what really needs to be addressed or solved.
Tools: Dot voting
Outcome
A refined challenge question that invites solution and stimulates new thinking.
Purpose: Generate ideas that answer the challenge question.
Divergent questions:
Tools: Brainstorming, Forced Connection, SCAMPER
Select ideas that are workable, innovative, and may solve the challenge.
Tools: Dot voting
Outcome
List of ideas or alternative actions that may solve the challenge.
“What I see myself doing is...”
Purpose: Move from ideas to solutions. Evaluate, strengthen, and select solutions.
Generate a list of options to strengthen the idea(s), Pluses, Potentials, Concerns and ways to Overcome key concerns (PPCO).
Divergent questions:
Tools: Brainstorming, PPCO
Select the most important options to incorporate and create a more robust solution that starts with, “Now what I see myself doing is...”
Tools: Dot voting, Evaluation Matrix
Outcome
Solutions to be implemented. Restate (”NOW what we see ourselves doing is...”)
The creative problem solving framework is from the CREATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION - more information is available from their site:
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