7 Strategies to improve your skills of creative problem solving

Let me share with you some of the, tools, techniques and methods that I learned about in the area of creative problem-solving. Yes, believe it or not, there is a whole field of research in this concept is done and is making great strides in recent decades. You can find some of these techniques in the old style or scoff at the lack of practical utility, but it is to learn to use your brain power for unconventional thinking.There is no easy answer. These are simple tools that are used to get the ball rolling and auto-start the way for something truly unique, creative and innovative.

Attribute parts: This technique is very simple and very effective. The idea is to take a product or service and to transform the value of one of his qualities. For example, if you are selling a service for social bookmarking, you can also believe that the main purpose or the reason that people with thisService. It saves them time. Taking into account the time factor, you could come up with the offer to enter into a specified task under a certain time, or give you a bonus. So if you are not completely the work of 150 social bookmark a Web page in less than a couple of days, you should generously offer you an additional 50 favorite sites, maybe. It could also be a good idea, "accidentally" not quite certain operations in time and give some customers so they can actually benefitThe experience for the good and come back often happened to you in hope the same thing. This is great because it creates an entirely new market-based offering, is the master!
Thinking Parallel: This is a technique that uses a simple trick to get your mind focused on the problem of the time in one. It uses six different "hats" or line to think that you use in a time when your thoughts in a laser problem-solving. The hats are:
Blue Hat - This is when you useThe beginning and end of a session and is intended to facilitate and plan our brainstorming. This hat is used to ensure that any cap should remain the task in the same direction, towards the ultimate success of the problem.
White Hat - usually used to start the installation process in the background looking for unknown information and tools required. It is a neutral fact and data collection.
Red Hat - This hat is used to vent the emotionsThe feelings and intuition about the problem without the need for justification. This is to ensure that our basic values and feelings heard that correct decisions can be made later. In the end, all decisions about the good and bad feelings are based opposite.
Green Hat - This hat is used in combination with the black hat. It is used for ideas, alternatives and options to create and reinforce each generation idea by changing all the ideas.
Black Hat - This hat is playing the devil's advocate andis used to refer to warnings and critical thinking. It is used to converge to produce things in a logical and random selection of ideas through the green hat. Weaknesses of an idea, are considered at this time.
Yellow Hat - This hat is the opposite of black hat and is not looking for positive ideas about the ideas advanced random. Should logically positive and constructive.
DATT - direct attention Thinking Tools: These are a list of 10 different instrumentsUsed to increase a person's perception and concentration, their thinking, improve their skills to be defined. This must be issues with the objectives, core values, consequences, goals and opinions of others, priorities and issues to be considered resolved. No serious problem should, without first, these problems are resolved. See how it would be 10 different tools to explain, I do not make this contribution in a job and just leaves you with the basic education heso you know where and when you would use it, and if you want to learn more.
analogue techniques: This technique consists in transforming the strange things in old acquaintances. The idea is an analogy with the problem and refer them to some past problem or a situation that could turn create. There are three different ideas of this technology, which are:
Direct analogy - This is the comparison with one thing and anotherrequires users to discuss their experiences and knowledge for something like that. EX: Take the value of premium gasoline for your car's performance and its connection with the use of vitamins for the health of your body. Premium gas is a vitamin performance of the car to a body to health.
Personal analogy - is outside the sensitive identification of some of the car. EX: groped a plumber can view the equipment and piping within a system and imagine the water flowing through them and try, Find out where there is a lock. He could ask: "When I located one block from food, where I would be better would be sitting for a long time?"
conflict tablet - find tight coupling of words that are almost paradoxical. The words, the struggle between them. readiness unintentional confusion balanced disruptions related: EX

release mechanisms: These are the words that abstract problem to help stimulate the mind to find the right solution to A. These include such itemsFor example:

Stealing words: the removal of parts of the evidence, collapse, or less do what they can be eliminated or reduced, can not be broken the rules, how can it be simplified?
In addition to words, to expand or scale, expand, advance, enlarge
words of transfer, moving to a new situation to adapt, move and rotate, translate, or to glorify, and implement
Empathize words to sympathize with a situation or an argument put in his place, relate to them emotionally and subjectively
In other words, animation;overlapping; scale case, replace, isolate, distort, disguise, contradict, hybridize, symbolize, fantasize to repeat, in combination

Mixing divergence and convergence: this is a very simple concept, based on a simple trade-off between the thought and the thought generative selective. The creative problem-solving methods based on this kind of thinking, but here are some specific ways to do.

Differing guidelines:
Later Judgement - Reset all the judgments of ideas forThey have generated enough ideas or reach your point of reference or quota.
Strive for quantity - generating as many ideas as possible, increase the chances of hitting on a real idea of quality that exceeds all limits known for its success.
Seek "savage" - think of crazy ideas, irrational and emotional link to something truly innovative
Seek combinations - Change forum, add, change, or the construction of an option previously created

ConvergentGuidelines: the court in the affirmative - to search for the strengths of an idea before, it's like a bad idea, or you do not see or impossible.
Be deliberate - Give each option a fair chance, the ideas so as not to have overlooked the potential that can be easily overlooked.
Seek New - Bring your solutions to new and unique, before moving on to minor changes to old ideas.
Target Testing - Stressing the importance of remembering the most important goals and objectivesbe punctual and do not waste track.
Concept Fan: The fan is a wonderful end to a great start and rapid solutions to a problem. Taking into account the desired result and working backwards towards the beginning of the problem. Consider this one of those maze puzzle in the newspaper. It is not always the easiest (and possibly a hoax) to start at the end and walk towards the beginning? This technique uses the idea. Let's meet to address the problem of a cityLack of water. Think of the statements that you can go to solve this problem. Could be solved: the reduction of water consumption, increase the supply or failure of water. Then take each of these directions and fans in a wider range of possibilities, the concepts of greater opportunities. Under the direction of reducing the consumption of water that could come up with these terms: increasing water use efficiency, less educated discourage water waste, water use,the problem. We could even go beyond Fanning every concept in concrete ideas. With the use of water quench idea we could come up with: the use of water meters, water charges, loads increased consumption of water, only water at certain times, a harmless odor into the water to limit the use of gardens , pool, etc. publish the names of heavy users, threatening to ration water. managed by the decomposition of each concept in a simple and easy ideas, we can expand our scope of the problemand create a variety of possible ideas.

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