DISQUS

Eric D. Brown - Technology, Strategy, People & Projects: Creative Thinking or Lateral Thinking?

  • Rotkapchen · 9 months ago
    Blew right over the most significant: Design Thinking -- leveraging deductive, inductive, abductive.

    I recently identified a related distinction, paring interpretation (connecting the dots) with interpolation (crossing the chasms -- finding the unlikely associations).

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  • ericbrown · 9 months ago
    Paula - Thanks for stopping by.

    Design Thinking is a great concept...thanks for sharing.
  • Janette Toral · 9 months ago
    Hi Eric. Great post here. I agree with you that creative persons should tap and explore as many thinking styles and not limit themselves to one method, such as lateral thinking. In the case of Edward De Bono, based on what I've tried so far, he suggested a lot of ways to go about this where lateral thinking is just one of them.

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  • ericbrown · 9 months ago
    Hi Janette - Thanks for stopping by.

    I haven't read any of De Bono's stuff but I plan to. I'm extremely interested in this subject but also try to keep a realistic view on things as well.

    Do you recommend any other books or authors on the subject?
  • Rotkapchen · 9 months ago
    As a general point of reference, I keep all of my online references for Design Thinking here: http://delicious.com/iknovate/DesignThinking

    You'll also see some Visual Thinking references sprinkled in. This is a key mechanism for creating critical artifacts of agreements in the process, e.g. a 'map' of what 'we' all currently agree to -- which is in constant flux. It serves as an 'explicit' placeholder so all can consider and comment.

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  • Val Sanford · 9 months ago
    Thanks. Great article. As a product manager, I am always struggling against my own, and the teams, thanking about our products and markets. Getting out of our own way is hard, but necessary.

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