Technopreneur Awareness Program: Your Business Your Life Day 1, Part 3

Day 1 Part 3

Tools & Techniques:

Discipline in using the Techniques:

• Focus Oriented. - should focus on the problem.
  

• Time oriented (time frame) - Allocate time for ideas generation.
  

• Flow. -let the idea flow spontaneously. -Suspending / disabling our conscious mind.
  

• More important... HAVE FUN!!

Tools For Generating Creative Idea..
- Brainstorming
- Analogy
- Random association
- Reversing
- How did they do that?
- Redefine a situation
- Imitation
- etc..

* For more tools, see 'The Creativity Toolkit: Provoking Creativity in Individuals and Organisations', Mc Graw Hill, 1998.

TOOL 1: Brainstorming
- The most popular technique to get as many ideas as possible from a group of people in a short time.
- Developed by Alex Osborn in 1940s
- The slogan is 'the crazier, the better'
* " The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas " - Linus Pauling.

TIPS:
" If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it " - Albert Einstein.
" Every really new idea looks crazy at first " - Alfred N. Whitehead.
- Outstanding -> crazy idea, think crazy.
- Untuk bina empire, kita kena buat something outstanding & dont follow others.
- Have to break the pattern.
- You have to be very brave to face the world.
- Dont worry of critics.
- Smiles with rejection.

Mind Mapping:
Advantages of using Mind Mapping:
- Breaking the word-oriented left-brain tendencies.

- Activates the whole brain.

Left	Right
details	whole picture
linear	simultaneous
words	picture/image

- Clear your mind from mental clutter.
- Focus on the subject.
- Allow to develop detailed or organization of subject.
- Show connections between isolated pieces of info.
- Gives a clear picture both details & big picture.
- Gives a graphic presentation & can identify gaps in information.
- Allow to group and regroup the concepts and ideas.

TOOL 2: Analogy ( Perumpamaan )

* Mark Brunel made the London tube system a technical possibility by learning a revolutionary tunneling technique from the wood worm..

- Let the ideas flow freely.
- Look at problem in a more relaxed/open way.
- Broadens the focus of attention to problem.
= by looking at attributes of 'something else' and apply to the situation or object discussed
= looking at problem in a different way.
= Disabling or suspending our conventional thinking style.