Chapter 9
Thinking Like a Facilitating Leader III
Five Strategies for Inventing Ideation and Innovation Processes
Every ideation session is different and every innovation challenge unique. And while I fully expect that the ideation techniques and innovation processes in this book will serve you well for the majority of your challenges as a creative facilitating leader, there are times when you will want or need to invent your own creative techniques, processes, and approaches. What follows are the five thinking strategies that I use to invent new creative techniques for unique or unanticipated (or both) business challenges:
- Matching like-to-like stimuli
- Going to extremes
- Thinking of the 5 Ws
- Combining techniques
- Creating a success footprint ...
