Ideation: Become an Idea Champion

Engage in brainwriting 6-3-5, a six-participant, three-ideas-in-five-minutes exercise facilitated by a moderator to generate about 108 ideas in 30 minutes for innovation, business, or writing.

Challenge assumptions to spark crazy ideas and innovations. List the assumptions, ask what-if questions, and answer from a new perspective.

Explore the Osborn checklist, a nine-question ideation tool by Alex Osborn that helps you adapt, modify, substitute, magnify, minimize, rearrange, reverse, combine, and explore other uses to develop new solutions.

Learn the lotus blossom technique to generate 48 ideas from a central problem using a 3x3 matrix of eight related blossoms, a structured mind map style for innovative solutions.

Use random input as a trigger to generate ideas with a lateral thinking tool; define the problem, then link random words to solutions like awareness and branding to boost revenue.

Use the wish process to broaden thinking and spark new ideas by writing I wish statements about products and services, like coffee flavors, low-cost clothing, or free transportation.

apply pcp, a convergent thinking tool using places, concerns, and potentials, to reduce a large idea pool to 3–4 and outline three pointers per idea for action.

Explore the COCD Box, a 2 to 2 matrix rating originality and feasibility, with blue, red, yellow, and colorless boxes, to categorize brainstormed ideas and guide Cebu City Box outcomes.

An idea advocate is assigned to a development-stage project to provide ongoing support and enthusiasm, present 3-6 shortlisted ideas to decision makers, and ensure standing among advocates through elimination rounds.

Apply the simple three-part test to rate an idea from 0 to 10 on new, useful, and feasible, and identify solutions that are novel and implementable.