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CPS STAGE: GENERATE IDEAS

Creative Problem Solving Model ABOUT THIS STAGE

When generating ideas, you use divergent thinking tools to think up many answers and alternatives for the question you selected in the previous step. (While divergent thinking is used throughout CPS, it is when generating ideas that it looks most familiar.) Then, you will use convergent thinking tools to select which ideas will be carried forward to be honed and crafted into workable solutions.

When generating ideas, use these guidelines:

  • Defer judgment
  • Strive for quantity
  • Seek wild and unusual
  • Build on other ideas

NOW WHAT

Here are some choices:

  • Click any part of the model above to examine that stage in more detail.
  • Continue the tour in a linear way by moving on to Craft Solutions.

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