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Title: Lateral Thinking


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Lateral Thinking
  • Developed originally by
  • Edward de Bono see Blackboard articles

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Lateral Thinking .
  • -used to look at things from a new perspective
  • Awareness
  • Alternatives
  • Provocative methods

3
Awareness
  • is concerned with assessing current ideas,
    redefining and clarifying them. They can be
    examined from the five perspectives of-
  • 1) Dominant idea
  • 2) Tethering factors
  • 3) Polarising tendencies
  • 4) Boundaries
  • 5) Assumptions
  • Assumption smashing
  • Assumption reversal

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Alternatives
  • is concerned with searching for as many
    different ways of looking at the problem as
    possible. Different perspectives include-
  • Avoidance devices
  • Rotation of attention
  • Change of entry point
  • Quota of alternatives
  • Concept changing and challenging
  • Key word omission
  • Fractionation and bridging divisions

5
Provocative methods
  • are ideation techniques-
  • Random stimulus
  • Intermediate impossible
  • Reversals
  • Distortion and exaggeration
  • Exposure (force fit)

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Provocative methods - continued
  • Cross-fertilisation
  • Problem-switching
  • Po
  • Metaphorical thinking
  • Analogy
  • Discontinuity
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