Finding Hidden Ideas By Using Five Hats
Segment 1: Five Hats Method To Finding Hidden Ideas
- Get out of the rut of how you look/evaluate/organize your ideas
- Use the “Five Hats” approach
- Alphabetical
- Time
- Location
- Continuum
- Category
- Look for …
- Non-obvious patterns
- Strange combinations of ideas appearing next to each other
Segment 2: Killer Question Of The Week
“What are the assumptions under which my industry operates?”
- Define the assumptions
- Apply the Five Hats
- Come up with 5 new ideas for each of the Five Hats
Segment 3: Closing Thought
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything” George Lois
