Topic 7 – Lateral Thinking
“What is lateral thinking? … PO: Provocative Orientation … PMI: Plus, Minus, Interesting … APC: Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices … APC in process and design … Stepping Stone method: Getting outlandish … Discussion of stop & thinks Wrap-Up”
Summaries
- Topic 7 - Lateral Thinking > What is lateral thinking? > What is lateral thinking?
- Topic 7 - Lateral Thinking > Discussion of stop & thinks > Discussion of stop & thinks
- Topic 7 - Lateral Thinking > Topic 7 Wrap-Up > Concept Review
Topic 7 – Lateral Thinking > What is lateral thinking? > What is lateral thinking?
- Today we’ll take an even weirder leap into a set of methods for changing the way we perceive and think called lateral thinking.
- What is lateral thinking? Lateral thinking is a set of methods devised by Edward de Bono to provide a means for moving across patterns of thinking.
- Consider it to be a method for leaping outside of normative problem solving, more through intuition than logic.
- Lateral thinking avoids judgment about what is right or wrong and even about what makes sense.
- De Bono devised a number of tools for lateral thinking, four of which we’ll visit today:
- Provocative orientation;
- PMI, plus, minus, interesting;
- APC, alternatives, possibilities, choices;
- The stepping stone method.
Topic 7 – Lateral Thinking > Discussion of stop & thinks > Discussion of stop & thinks
- Case study of Better Place using the tools of lateral thinking and and misuse of the stepping stone method.
Topic 7 – Lateral Thinking > Topic 7 Wrap-Up > Concept Review
- Strange as they may seem, these tools can generate useful ideas.
- APC asks us to never stop searching for additional alternatives.
- The stepping stone method asks us to use fantasy in constructing reality.
