The BETTER Guide to Getting Good Ideas
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The document discusses key strategies for improving idea generation in organizations, emphasizing that ideation is a skill that can be learned. It suggests that crafting good questions is crucial for generating ideas and that time and collaboration enhance the ideation process. Additionally, it highlights that brainstorming is more effective for refining ideas than for generating them and that learning from implemented ideas boosts future creativity.
The BETTER Guide to Getting Good Ideas
- 3. but the PROBLEM is...
- 5. BUT HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS
- 6. ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE HIGH PERFORMING IDEA MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS SEE...
- 7. 4X EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION MORE IDEAS PER EMPLOYEE IDEAS TRANSLATE INTO S
- 9. so how do you get better ideas?
- 10. Here are the 5 things you need to know about getting good ideas
- 11. EVERYONE CAN learn TO COME UP WITH GOOD IDEAS 1
- 12. IDEATION IS A SKILL THAT CAN BE LEARNED AND IMPROVED. LIKE KUNGFU 1
- 13. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MATURITY MATRIX FOR IDEATION PROGRAMS soapboxhq.com/blog/maturity-model-idea-management Extra Learning: 1
- 14. SPEND MORE TIME coming up with the question THAN ANSWERING IT 2 111 210 39
- 15. HIGH PERFORMING IDEA MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS NEED A CONSTANT FLOW OF GOOD IDEAS
- 16. “IF I WERE TO SPEND AN HOUR IN WHICH TO DO A PROBLEM WHICH MY LIFE DEPENDED, I WOULD SPEND 40 MINUTES STUDYING IT, 15 MINUTES REVIEWING IT AND 5 MINUTES SOLVING IT” ALBERT EINSTEIN
- 17. WHY DOES the question MATTER SO MUCH? 2
- 18. HUMANS ARE BAD AT FREE ASSOCIATION. HAVING A question PROVIDES CONTEXT, CLUES AND SUGGESTIONS TO HELP THE FLOW OF IDEAS. 2
- 19. PUT SCREENSHOT HERE eBookMORE ON CREATING GOOD QUESTIONS IN THE GOAL SETTING GUIDE FOR IDEA PROGRAMS EBOOK Extra Learning: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience) studied how nobel laureates and other creative people achieved their breakthroughs and discovered something interesting. Once they asked themselves the right question, their ideas flowed rapidly. 2
- 21. EUREKA MOMENTS ARE VERY RARE ACCORDING TO STEVEN JOHNSON (AUTHOR OF WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM). THE ideation process IS A COMBINATION OF REFLECTION TIME AND CONNECTING WITH OTHERS TO SHARE IDEAS. 3
- 22. 3 FOR EXAMPLE, SIR JAMES DYSON SPENT OVER 5 YEARS AND CREATED 5,000 PROTOTYPES TO MAKE THE VACCUUM
- 23. Steven Johnson wrote a book about the natural history of innovation. In it, he discusses how the ideation process is actually a combination of reflection time and connecting with others to share ideas. Watch his TED talk on where good ideas come from. MORE ON SIR JAMES DYSON AND THE INVENTION OF THE BAGLESS VACUUM Extra Learning: www.inc.com/ilan-mochari/vacuum-innovation.html
- 24. WE LEARN FROM OTHER GOOD IDEAS 4
- 25. RESEARCH SHOWS THAT WITH EVERY IDEA THAT WE SEE IMPLEMENTED, THE LIKELIHOOD THAT OUR FUTURE IDEAS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED ALSO GOES UP. 4
- 26. ON THE OTHER HAND, WE DON’T LEARN FROM FAILED IDEAS OR IDEAS THAT DON’T GET IMPLEMENTED. 4
- 28. BRAINSTORMING IS NOT A GOOD SOURCE OF IDEAS (UNLESS IT’S USED PROPERLY) 5
- 29. BRAINSTORMING DOES NOT INCREASE THE QUANTITY OF IDEAS. THE SAME NUMBER OF PEOPLE COMING UP WITH IDEAS INDIVIDUALLY WILL ALWAYS PRODUCE MORE IDEAS 5
- 30. BRAINSTORMING IS A GREAT WAY TO HELP THE LATER STAGES OF IDEATION TO COMBINE IDEAS INTO THEMES THAT LEAD TO EVEN BETTER IDEAS 5
- 31. MORE ON BEST PRACTICES FOR BRAINSTORMING Extra Learning:
- 32. LET’S BOIL DOWN WHAT WE’VE LEARNED ABOUT GETTING GOOD IDEAS:
- 33. LET’S BOIL DOWN WHAT WE’VE LEARNED ABOUT GETTING GOOD IDEAS: Ideation is like learning kungfu - you need to practice and improve the skill to get better ideas A good question will help ideas flow by providing context and cues Good ideas need time and feedback from others We come up with better ideas by seeing other implemented ideas Use brainstorming to fuse ideas together rather than source ideas 1 2 3 4
- 34. LET’S BOIL DOWN WHAT WE’VE LEARNED ABOUT GETTING GOOD IDEAS: Ideation is like learning kungfu - you need to practice and improve the skill to get better ideas A good question will help ideas flow by providing context and cues Good ideas need time and feedback from others We come up with better ideas by seeing other implemented ideas Use brainstorming to fuse ideas together rather than source ideas 1 2 3 4
- 35. LET’S BOIL DOWN WHAT WE’VE LEARNED ABOUT GETTING GOOD IDEAS: Ideation is like learning kungfu - you need to practice and improve the skill to get better ideas A good question will help ideas flow by providing context and cues Good ideas need time and feedback from others We come up with better ideas by seeing other implemented ideas Use brainstorming to fuse ideas together rather than source ideas 1 2 3 4 5
- 36. LET’S BOIL DOWN WHAT WE’VE LEARNED ABOUT GETTING GOOD IDEAS: Ideation is like learning kungfu - you need to practice and improve the skill to get better ideas A good question will help ideas flow by providing context and cues Good ideas need time and feedback from others We come up with better ideas by seeing other implemented ideas Use brainstorming to fuse ideas together rather than source ideas 1 2 3 4 5
- 37. Ideation is like learning kungfu - you need to practice and improve the skill to get better ideas A good question will help ideas flow by providing context and cues Good ideas need time and feedback from others We come up with better ideas by seeing other implemented ideas Use brainstorming to fuse ideas together rather than source ideas LET’S BOIL DOWN WHAT WE’VE LEARNED ABOUT GETTING GOOD IDEAS: 1 2 3 4 5
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