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Creative Challenge Spiral

From a creative challenge to a virtuous innovation spiral

 

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The bigger the challenge you address, the bigger your awakening. Stretch your imagination and efforts, and they will stretch your capabilities and achievements beyond imagination.

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Vadim Kotelnikov

No challenge, no victory. Problems emerge to help you get stronger, not weaker. Treat every challenge or problem as a chance to develop your capabilities as a creative problem solver and opportunity finder.

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Looking deeper for a solution is intelligence; looking wider is creativity; looking higher is enlightenment.

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 Exciting Challenges as Stretchers, Boosters and Eye-Openers
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Challenge as a Stretch Tool
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A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
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Intellectual means involving a person's ability to think and to understand ideas and information.
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Exciting Challenge
If something is exciting, it makes you feel very happy or enthusiastic.
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How to create and assign a challenge
How Innompic challenges are created and assigned
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To throw down a challenge
If you throw down a challenge to someone, you do something new or unexpected in a bold or forceful manner that will probably cause them to reply or react equally strongly.

Innogurus / Innocoaches throw down a challenge to the players / learners / contestants
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Address a challenge
If you address a problem or task or if you address yourself to it, you try to understand it or deal with it.

Tackle a challenge
If you tackle a difficult problem or task, you deal with it in a very determined or efficient way.
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Intellectual Challenge as a Booster of Creativity and Inventiveness
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Challenge-based Education
Build skills

Innompic Games is a creative challenge competition. It is a creation show composed of a set of both team-based and individial constructive competition contests open to entrepreneurial innovators from all over the world who will compete in the development and the presentation of creative solutions to exciting challenges assigned by event leaders.
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The task is to develop and present attfully a creative solution for a challenge assigned by organisers in the follofing categories:

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Challenges as a growth booster
> stretch
> energize
> creativity under the gun

Addressing a Challenge as Fun Exercise
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Challenges can create a movement
Challenges are able to do something that other campaings are not able to accomplish in such a short period. Challenges excite and turn people to inspired partners.
Example: Innompic Planet of Loving Creators.
Challenges stretching capabilities of contestants create the Innompic All-Win culture of United Innovators and the atmosphere of the Innompic Planet of Loving Creators.
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CREATIVE CHALLENGE SPIRAL
2 Why? 1 What If? - for IG contests
3 Why? 3 What If? SPIN - for real-life inventions
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The Creative Challenge Technique

The creative challenge technique helps you to discover problems you don’t even know exist by helping you question the world around you. You uncover hidden problems by actively asking ‘why are things the way they are?’ Newly discovered problems can be used as seeds for possible solutions, or in the case of a business, a new and exciting product or service.
The Creative Challenge was originally developed by Dr. Edward de Bono, however I’ve rearranged, combined and reworded things a bit and come up with a three-step process that I feel is a bit cleaner.

The steps

The steps to utilizing the Creative Challenge are as follows:

1. Pick an existing solution and analyze it: Focus on an object or existing solution of interest and simply ask ‘why does this exist?’ There are so many things around us that we just take for granted, but every man-made creation is there for a reason.
As an example, take something as routine as a picture frame. If you ask ‘why do we have a picture frame?’ you may arrive at something like, ‘so the edges are protected and won’t curl up’.

2. Determine what problem is being solved: Reverse the question to part 1 to discover the problem the existing solution solves
Picture frame example: To discover the hidden problem, simply reverse the answer: “The edges of pictures will get damaged and curl up if hung directly on the wall.’

3. Develop solutions: Determine an alternate way of solving the discovered problem.
Think out of the box, ask 'What If?' questions to invent a creative solution - consciously of subconaciously - and spend some more time refining them.
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Example: 10 KITT
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Fast Communication Tool

Existing idea A: White board
Why 1.
Why do we use the white board?
- To communicate visually.
Why 2.
Why do we want to communicate visually?
- Because visual information is digested faster.
What I?
What if we use metaphoric tool to communicate ideas as metaphors are digested
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Invention Tool
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Why 1.
Why TRIZ inventive thinking technique is used by many large firms?
- Because it helps address engineering challenges inventively.
Why 2.
Why TRIZ is not used by non-professionals?
- Because it is too difficult to learn and is too narrowly focused on engineering tasks only.
What If?
- What if we use an easy-to-master universal set of metaphoric inventive thinking tools that would allow people to address all types of tasks and challenges in both life and business?
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Invention of INNOBALL
Anticipation skills (subconscious)
Think far beyond Plan B in diverse directions
To expand horizons and achieve far more
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Invention of e-Coach
- to help people awaken their inner genius
- expand horizons by opening doors to new directions of intellectual expliration
- creative chaos environment
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Invention of Innompic Games