This document discusses various techniques for lateral and creative thinking. It describes awareness principles like recognizing dominant ideas and assumptions. It also explains idea generation methods like considering alternatives through techniques like concept changing, as well as provocative thinking using stimuli like reversals, distortions, and cross fertilization. Additionally, it discusses metaphorical thinking using comparisons, analogies to escape mental blocks, and the six thinking hats framework to adopt different viewpoints. The goal is to disrupt typical thought patterns and explore new perspectives to stimulate creative problem solving.
This document discusses various techniques for lateral and creative thinking. It describes awareness principles like recognizing dominant ideas and assumptions. It also explains idea generation methods like considering alternatives through techniques like concept changing, as well as provocative thinking using stimuli like reversals, distortions, and cross fertilization. Additionally, it discusses metaphorical thinking using comparisons, analogies to escape mental blocks, and the six thinking hats framework to adopt different viewpoints. The goal is to disrupt typical thought patterns and explore new perspectives to stimulate creative problem solving.
This document discusses various techniques for lateral and creative thinking. It describes awareness principles like recognizing dominant ideas and assumptions. It also explains idea generation methods like considering alternatives through techniques like concept changing, as well as provocative thinking using stimuli like reversals, distortions, and cross fertilization. Additionally, it discusses metaphorical thinking using comparisons, analogies to escape mental blocks, and the six thinking hats framework to adopt different viewpoints. The goal is to disrupt typical thought patterns and explore new perspectives to stimulate creative problem solving.
This document discusses various techniques for lateral and creative thinking. It describes awareness principles like recognizing dominant ideas and assumptions. It also explains idea generation methods like considering alternatives through techniques like concept changing, as well as provocative thinking using stimuli like reversals, distortions, and cross fertilization. Additionally, it discusses metaphorical thinking using comparisons, analogies to escape mental blocks, and the six thinking hats framework to adopt different viewpoints. The goal is to disrupt typical thought patterns and explore new perspectives to stimulate creative problem solving.
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THINKING
AWARENESS ALTERNATIVES PROVOCATIVE METAPHORICAL THINKING ANALOGY THE DISCONTINUITY PRINCIPLES SIX THINKING HATS MS. NORWANI MOHD NAZARI LATERAL THINKING
De Bono identifies four critical factors associated
with lateral thinking:
recognizing the dominant ideas that polarise
perception of a problem searching for different ways of looking at things relaxation of rigid control of thinking use of chance to encourage other ideas. Lateral and vertical thinking Differences between lateral and vertical thinking:
Vertical thinking Lateral thinking
Selective Generative Analytical Provocative Sequential Can make jumps One has to be correct at every One does not have to be step Categories, classifications and They are not labels are fixed Follows the most likely paths Explores the least likely Finite process Probabilistic one AWARENESS Dominant idea - how is the problem being viewed? There may be other ways.
workers will not strike if management is heavy handed.
Polarising tendencies - TWO viewpoints can polarise
the situation in to an EITHER / OR situation, reducing possible solutions.
Boundaries - problem boundaries limit the amount of
room available to solve a problem, They need to be ignored if solutions other than variations on old ideas are to be found. EIB10703 : CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING Assumptions - they should be recognised, even if their validity cannot be assessed. Through recognition of assumptions new insights may be obtained. 2 techniques : i. Assumption Smashing ii. Challenging Assumption iii. Assumption Reversal
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SOLVING ALTERNATIVES Avoidance devices Rotation of attention Change of entry point Quota of alternatives Concept changing and challenging Key word omission Fractionation and bridging devices
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SOLVING PROVOCATIVE Random stimulus – Sample any rich set of random stimuli to seek a relationship between the object and the problem under consideration. ‘Absenteeism and a butterfly’ example.
Intermediate impossible – Use an ideal but
impossible solution to a problem and adapt it into a viable option. ‘shoplifting problem’.
Reversal - turn the direction of the problem
around - instead of "how to make the factory safer for workers" it could be "how to make workers more safe for the factory". EIB10703 : CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING PROVOCATIVE Distortion and exaggeration - take a situation to an extreme. In quality control, where production rejects are high, view everything produced as a reject. Could lead to thinking of redesigning the production line.
Exposure - consider things unrelated to a problem.
A plastic duck could be related to organisational problems - those above the surface and those below it.
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SOLVING PROVOCATIVE Cross fertilisation - ask experts in other areas how they might solve the problem using their own methods.
Problem switching - move from one problem to
another and then back again.
Po – one should not reject or accept an
intermediated idea which is unacceptable , but that judgement should be suspended for the time being. EIB10703 : CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING METAPHORICAL THINKING Thinking technique that connecting two different universes of meaning. Example: Problem: “How might employees be encouraged to work more effectively to increase productivity?” Metaphor: Human body. Interpretation: Organization made up of different department
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SOLVING ANALOGY Statement of similarity between two different things. A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
Escape from mental stuckness.
Forced Analogy – Useful method of generating
ideas. Compare the problem with something else.
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SOLVING THE DISCONTINUITY PRINCIPLES Disrupt thought patterns to create the greatest stimulus to your thinking. Examples of programming interruptions: i. Changing working hours ii. Listening to different radio station iii.Try new menu iv.Work a different way
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SOLVING SIX THINKING A way to try onHATS different viewpoints. Useful as a planning activities.
