Tools of Creative Innovation
Cosplay
If you have ever been stuck in your own thinking, maybe you should try thinking like someone else. This tool helps you escape your own thought patterns and open up to new possibilities through a different character, alive or dead, real or fictional, to bring out innovation through creativity.
Bring A Brick
Bring A Brick, also known as Yes, And is a fantastic way to create big, audacious ideas to lead to amazing innovation. The trick is to support each other and let go of the need to be right.
Songwriter
This 2-minute video describes a creative innovation tool to help you find the right words to describe a problem. You select your favorite song, and in under 5 minutes re-write it to describe your innovation challenge. Sometimes the wrong words are the best ones!
Attributes
This tool forces you to get out of your own head with some different thinking. By applying the wrong attributes to your problem, you can find better ways to move forward.
Already Invented Elsewhere
This tool simplifies the problem down to a very basic level. Then it searches for where that most basic issue has already been solved. It allows for faster innovation and inspiration in ideation.
The 5 C’s
This quick video introduces the 5 C's of communication to help everyone relate to each other in an easier manner. Calm, Caring, Clear, Concise, and Consistent.
Break It!
Think of an area where your intuition feels conflict. Write down every rule that you can think of that allows that conflict to stand as it is today. Now, select one rule and break it by asking, what if. Just like Netflix asks, what if late fees weren’t a thing. You will find that other rules start to break as you do that. Generate ideas and make sure that you are writing them down.