Slide 1: Edward de Bono’s Lateral Thinking Random Word list soap
mouse
cloud
hair
ice-cream
rocket
tax
bed
wheel
frog
farm
computer
jazz
hat
credit card
church
shop
hamburger
book
scales coal
camel
diary
lawyer
cigarette
toy
snow
parachute
door
tap
hurricane
watch
balloon
party
shoe
root
knife
smoke
president
button eagle
taxi
soup
prison
shark
diamond
gun
train
picture
beer
kitchen
nose
elephant
wine
rose
saw
hospital
camera
banana
snail
Slide 2: Information Feelings Caution Benefits Creativity Managing the thinking What information do we have?
What are the objectives?
What information do we need?
How do we acquire the needed information? I once read an article where...
That reminds me of an episode where...
It is my impression that...
What if we tried to...? That is a bad idea because...
Drilling in the reservoir is problematic because...
The risk of going forward on this is too high because...
The implementation will be difficult because... It would be a good idea to...
The project is running well but it could run even better if...
The idea certainly has qualities in the area of...
The potentials of this idea are so great that we should attempt to... The basics of this venture are similar to...
This is comparable to...
There is a likeness between this platform and...
The synergies between what your saying and what he is saying is... This has been thoroughly covered. Next item is...
Will the yellow hat please elaborate on the subject...?
What is the documentation for the idea that...?
We need to involve these stakeholders to ensure that... Brain Writing
Objective: To generate as many ideas as possible.
Rules: It’s quantity not quality that counts.
In groups: Each person has a sheet of paper. Everybody writes down two good ideas/solutions. Once it’s done you pass the paper to the person next to you. Again write two good ideas and pass on the sheet. Continue like this for a set amount of time.
Lateral Thinking
In normal thinking, each step that we take is fiemly based on the preceding step (vertical thinking). When we arrive at a solution, the validity of that solution is proved by the validity of every proceding step.
Lateral thinking gets us out of the normal way and we create somthing new.
Methods for lateral thinking:
Provocation :: Random Word :: Pressure – 90 ideas in 10 minutes :: Steal from a previous idea on the list