making a difference, making things different

1. Minds at Work presents making a difference, making things different October 2004

2. what would I change? what can I change? what would work?

3. what would I change? what I teach? how I teach? who I teach? who teaches who? when I teach? where I teach? why I teach?

4. seeing what might be Minds atWork

5. "It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one." Alex Osborne modify? substitute? combine? magnify? minify? rearrange? reverse? eliminate? repurpose? adapt?

6. combine? What else is like this? Could we mix other products/services in? What else would you use at the same time? How would it crossbreed with other ideas?

7. modify? What could alter or redesign? Update the technology? Rethink the adjoining bits? Any old assumptions we could lose?

8. magnify? What would it be like if it was huge? What if we just enlarged one bit? Increase number, strength, range, capacity? How could we magnify the market?

9. adopt? Can we pinch something from another idea? Could we copy other processes? Could we swipe the technology? Who else is doing this?

10. minify? What if it was tiny? Could we shrink one bit? Reduce the cost, effort, weight? Is there a smaller, richer market?

11. What could we use instead? Try different materials? Try different markets? Try different components? substitute?

12. How would it fit somewhere else? Can it become part of another thing? How would it work on the beach? In traffic? In orbit? Underwater? adapt?

13. rearrange? How many ways could we reconfigure it? Can we restructure the process? Can we rebuild the marketplace? What isn’t doing it’s best where it is?

14. repurpose? Forget what it was made for, what can it do? Would it be in a fire? In a flood? At a party? What would an alien do with it?

15. What if we did the exact opposite? Would it work backwards? Inside out, upside down? Let’s zig when the market zags! reverse?

16. eliminate? What could we lose? What’s weighing this idea down? What would it be without this component? What would we do without it?

17. "It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one." Alex Osborne modify? substitute? combine? magnify? minify? rearrange? reverse? eliminate? repurpose? adapt?

18. craziness time

19. 30 INTERESTING! craziness been done what are you, NUTS? 1 time

20. wave wave second lull craziness first lull wave time

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22. picking the winners Minds atWork

23. How many choices? 3+ • Multiple decision making WALLET TIE? HOUSE BEEPER? SELF CLEANING GLASSES? THE MULTI-FONT PEN? GROW-SHOE? COFFEE PATCH?

24. How many choices? 3+ • Multiple decision making PRICELESS 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 WALLET TIE? HOUSE BEEPER? SELF CLEANING GLASSES? THE MULTI-FONT PEN? GROW-SHOE? COFFEE PATCH? VALUE WORTHLESS

25. PRICELESS 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 BLOODY BRILLIANT IDEA GREAT IDEA NOT SO GREAT IDEA VALUE WEAK IDEA PISS WEAK IDEA WORTHLESS

26. BLOODY BRILLIANT IDEA GREAT IDEA NOT SO GREAT IDEA WEAK IDEA PISS WEAK IDEA EFFORT NO SWEAT NO WAY

27. TIME? RESOURCES? TECHNOLOGY? POLITICS? EFFORT NO SWEAT NO WAY

28. BLOODY BRILLIANT BUT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE IDEA PRICELESS V10 E10 GREAT IDEA NOT SO GREAT IDEA VALUE WEAK IDEA PISS WEAK IDEA WORTHLESS EFFORT NO SWEAT NO WAY

29. BLOODY BRILLIANT BUT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE IDEA PRICELESS V10 E10 V9 E3 GREAT EASY IDEA NOT SO GREAT IDEA VALUE WEAK IDEA PISS WEAK IDEA WORTHLESS EFFORT NO SWEAT NO WAY

30. BLOODY BRILLIANT BUT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE IDEA PRICELESS V10 E10 V9 E3 GREAT EASY IDEA NOT SO GREAT REALLY HARD IDEA V6 E8 VALUE WEAK IDEA PISS WEAK IDEA WORTHLESS EFFORT NO SWEAT NO WAY

31. How many choices? 3+ • Multiple decision making DO IT NOW WORK UP TO IT VALUE TOTAL WASTE OF TIME DELEGATE OR DUMP EFFORT

32. How many choices? 3+ • Multiple decision making Can we get STARTED? Can we make it EASIER? VALUE Can we make it more VALUABLE? Should we even BOTHER? EFFORT

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