Disruptive Concepts Creative thinking workshops

Implementing innovations is a long and difficult process. In order to succeed you have to invent something that no one has ever come up with.

In Disruptive Concepts we know how to teach you how to think in a way that no one else would ever

even think about.

Reasonable

We offer you workshops based on

lateral thinking

and 6 thinking hats concepts

of Edward de Bono which are used, among

others, by Exxon, Shell and IBM.

Proposition

Lateral thinking and 6 thinking hats techniques can help you with:

• Identification of competitive advantages sources

• Implementation of innovative solutions in the

organization.

• Launching new products and services

• Entering new markets

• Processes optimization

• Implementation of major changes in the organization

Potential use cases

Benefits

Using Lateral thinking and 6 thinking hats techniques ensures:

• Generation of at least 100 ideas of how to achieve a goal defined at the beginning of a workshop

• Involvement of 5 to 10 of your team members and optionally external experts

• Stimulation of your team members’ creativity

• Motivating the participants to work together rather

than against each other

• Interesting form of integration (workshop can be

adjusted to the needs of a bigger integration event).

What do workshops look like?

6-thinking-hats-based problem solving process is a process of thinking on 6 different levels:

1. Gathering facts and information about the problem. 2. Finding creative solutions. 3. Emotionally evaluating proposed solutions (without

giving logical reasons). 4. Providing reasonable advantages of proposed

solutions. 5. Providing reasonable weaknesses of proposed

solutions. 6. Keeping balance between all above-listed levels of

thinking.

6 thinking hats

Lateral thinking method provides an unconventional problem approach. To achieve

such an approach, following techniques are used:

• Using random information to initiate a brainstorm. • Extending the goal set. • Pushing provocative ideas. • Questioning assumptions.

Lateral thinking – finding creative solutions

Workshops are conducted in a form of a structured brainstorm.

The optimal set of brainstorm participants consists of:

• Representatives of different levels and department in the organization.

• External experts are a big plus (we can invite them). • External participants unrelated to the workshop’s

topic are a big plus (we can invite them too).

Participants selection

Example of our workshop

Goal: What actions in the field of marketing and sales

processes optimization should be undertaken by the

company in order to become the market leader by the end of

2013?

Results: 100 ideas for improving marketing and sales

processes in order to make the company the market leader.

Success case

If you are interested in our workshops, please contact us. Paweł Szwarcbach Project Manager +48 606 694 206 pawel.szwarcbach@disruptive-concepts.com

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