Monday April 30, 2012 2:00am
Goal: Finish a blog post by 2:30am; Yay, done at 2:30am (No visuals, but I
kept my promise to post a post. It is hard to stick it through... keep it up! )
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Topic: Idea Generation
Here is a quick link to what it means...Click here to go to the Wikipedia reference to Ideation (Idea Generation)
Here is a link to free small business development workshops:
Click here to go to Baruch Schedule Listing.
Paraphrasing what I learned from one of the Baruch workshops called "Idea Generation".
To sum up the process:
Step 1: Start with an assumption aka your point of view?
Step 2: Reverse that assumption
Step 3: What solutions and or ideas pops out?
The point is to have your brain plays double advocate. With any assumption, you can reverse it working both side of your brains causing conflicts and making you think of different alternatives, perspectives and ideas.
So let's try an example:
My assumption is that ambitious people need time management.
The reversal of this assumption is that lazy people don't need time management.
Then you ask yourself okay so what is the solution? What can be done about this?
and you repeat the two statements until an idea pops up....
For me I feel like there should be a quick way to track your time and be able to produce a snapshot of how your time was allocated. For example, if you want to divide your time for work, family, friends, and self. You can allocate your time to each category. ( I actually can elaborate more on this, but that will be another blog post - "It would be my ultimate personal time manager system." Still in developmental phase.)
If that doesn't work, create another assumption and keep repeating these steps until you have a list of different ideas. Then pick the best ideas and apply the core value proposition aka "study your competition."
After you study your competition, you can tweek your unique advantage.
That is it!
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