Breakthrough Solutions

When trying to improve your work or work processes, have you ever had trouble trying to identify fresh ideas, more innovative approaches or truly breakthrough solutions? If so, have you often wondered where these new ideas that lead to lasting solutions come from?

Here are five different approaches to identifying new ideas and solutions:

1. Studying the work, which often produces new ideas and solutions
2. Classic brainstorming and the 6-3-5 method, which can produce a large quantity of ideas quickly
3. Humor, random association and other techniques that improve the originality and quality of ideas
4. Tools such as the Six Thinking Hats and Heuristic Discovery, which systematically change one’s perspective to open-up new possibilities for solving problems
5. Imagineering perfection, which helps you surface possibilities to leap past incremental improvements

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