TTT fun factor: Solve everything… within 17 hours!
Our ThinkTankThursday LinkedIn Group is growing fast! 100 members in only two weeks shows there’s a need to simplify innovation. Thanks to the great initiatives of our members (like below) we will fill that gap!
Take for example Roger Richardson who challenges you to come up with your problems. He will generate innovative ideas (with an ease, like it’s water out of a tap!)
What problem did you observe today?
Observation is the key. While doing todays activity identify some thing that took to long to accomplish. Watch all around. Many times we ignore problems since we know a way to work around them. Those problems are waiting for a solution. What did you see?
(Roger Richardson)
Today, besides some serious brainstorming, an interesting discussion elaborated on how to prevent your teabag paper to drop into the hot water. Very important discussion…
Erik Vos started this brainstorm by sharing his ‘frustration’:
Hey Roger, I totally support your apprach. Identifying a problem is the start of a solution. I love problems and see them as challenges. Its intersting too think about innovations and to helping people with their problems and support processes. I have a tiny little problem every day. The teabagpart which has to hang out of the teacup is dropping into my teacup. Paper in hot water. It doenst belong there. Why havent they thought about a small vertical open space where you can put the thread of the teabag?
A whole discussion existed, thanks to input from Roger Richardson, Joris Scheepers, Rui Costa, and others.
The (final) result?
Roger and Others! My proposed solution for the teacup problem: Could the solution be on an “external element” that is not part of the initial equation? please check my proposed solution at this my clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qN1OQ8l6zQ - we should see something were others see nothing -
p.s. I’m sure that the big hands of Erik can even handle this approach…
Rui Costa even uploaded his solution to Youtube (+special thanks to all of us!):
We believe the fun factor is also important during innovation. It challenges you to think outside your frame of reference!
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