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?”

1. Define the assumptions
2. Apply the Five Hats
3. 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

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