Innovation Generator
Innovation Generator is an ideation warm-up exercise for divergent ideation: it helps participants open up more possible ideas before choosing a direction.
How to run it
- Begin by giving your players post-its and markers. Draw three columns on a large white board or poster and label them as follows:
- A. Customers’/Prospective Customers’ Problems
- Ask players to think of problems that customers within your market may have. After they write all their ideas on sticky notes and post them in the first column, discuss what the issues mean for your company.
- Finally, collaborate to develop new innovations by combining the inventions with their values from the second column.
- Focus on innovations that address the notes from column one. This will ensure that the exercise leaves you with useful information that responds to customers’ needs.
- . Begin by giving your players post-its and markers. Draw three columns on a large white board or poster and label them as follows:
- . Ask players to think of problems that customers within your market may have. After they write all their ideas on sticky notes and post them in the first column, discuss what the issues mean for your company.
- . Finally, collaborate to develop new innovations by combining the inventions with their values from the second column.
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Prompts to use +
Begin by giving your players post-its and markers. Draw three columns on a large white board or poster and label them as follows:
Ask players to think of problems that customers within your market may have. After they write all their ideas on sticky notes and post them in the first column, discuss what the issues mean for your company.
. Begin by giving your players post-its and markers. Draw three columns on a large white board or poster and label them as follows:
. Ask players to think of problems that customers within your market may have. After they write all their ideas on sticky notes and post them in the first column, discuss what the issues mean for your company.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Innovation Generator. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Begin by giving your players post-its and markers. Draw three columns on a large white board or poster and label them as follows:; Ask players to think of problems that customers within your market may have. After they write all their ideas on sticky notes and post them in the first column, discuss what the issues mean for your company.; . Begin by giving your players post-its and markers. Draw three columns on a large white board or poster and label them as follows:; . Ask players to think of problems that customers within your market may have. After they write all their ideas on sticky notes and post them in the first column, discuss what the issues mean for your company.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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