Dianne Rees's List: innovation tools

• Divergent thinking   is guided by four guidelines:
• • Deferred judgment emphasizes the need   to refrain from evaluation, criticism, or praise of ideas.  
  • To strive for quantity encourages participants   to think of as many possible ideas as possible.  
  • Freewheeling or striving for unusual   possibilities allows for unique and novel ideas to form.  
  • To seek combinations encourages the group   to build off the ideas of others.
• Divergent thinking by its very definition appears to require   the individual to search his/her own knowledge base beyond the currently   activated domain of mental content.
• Divergent thinking as referred   to by Parnes (1976) is not an end in itself but only a means to an end.
• Isaksen (1995) stated that the process   within the stages of CPS alternates between divergent and convergent thinking.
• Convergent thinking directs ones efforts toward the key opportunities   and challenges to be explored. In the Data-Finding Stage, divergent thinking   allows for a thorough understanding of the situation while convergent   thinking organizes the data to create a whole picture of the situation.
• Divergent thinking helps to identify a wide range of possible problem   statements that define pathways to solving the problem in the Problem-Finding   Stage. Convergent thinking then clarifies and brings attention to the   specific pathways for solving the problem.
• convergent   phase is not concerned with final decisions or closure, but rather the   collection of the most promising, inviting or intriguing ideas to the   client.
• Solution-Finding Stage, divergent thinking helps generate criteria   to effectively analyze the options.
• • implicit criteria to make decisions????? WTH?

  • Not sure what implicit decisions means
• Divergent   tools such as Brainstorming, Forced Connections and the Ladder of Abstraction   help generate many varied, unusual and novel ideas.

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