While some may take this to be one of the most basics forms of idea generation, it is important to notice that it is also one of the most crucial ones. Working together to arrive at new solutions and conclusions is one of the earliest forms of critical thinking seen in humans. Our ability to bring in together different points of view as well as different thought processes and being able to communicate them across to others is invaluable. This is the exact purpose of this strategy, to gather not just one but many minds and interchange ideas and concepts. Through this process there are many brains working towards a solution and not just one.
For the execution of this creative thinking strategy I gathered my roommates during breakfast and they agreed to help me come up with ideas and solutions. I will be using the "Idea Pool" technique which features a center stack of index cards with everyone's ideas mixed in the middle. We then proceeded to brainstorm and every time we seemed to be running out of ideas we grabbed an index card and read our friends' ideas and kept on going. For the sake of this blog and proper documentation I will write some of the ideas that were written in the stack of index cards.
Index Card Ideas:
- Partner up with Social organizations
- Cater school events
- Have people dressed as burritos at the football game (my idea)
- Advertise in local TV and radio
- Go preach in Turlington
Results:
Out of these wacky, but yet innovative ideas, together we came to the conclusion that what might really work here is to really get involved in student life. Whereas it be football games, catering events or even running around campus in a burrito, students are a key demographic in a college town.
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