For those who missed the course, the next date is August 31, 2007, in Utrecht, Netherlands. The number of participants is limited, therefore it is important to register in time.
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Success of Creative Imagination Development
Last Friday (April 27) I started a new series of training workshops by running a public course on Systematic Creative Imagination Development. It was the first public course of such kind given in English (at least to my knowledge) and it seems like it was a serious success: the audience was extremely enthusiastic during the course, and I received many exciting follow-ups. Although the course was based on the ideas Genrich Altshuller originally developed for Creative Imagination Development courses, it was considerably "updated" to incorporate elements of "power thinking", and the exercises were oriented at real tasks rather than a "free flight" imagination. For instance, a final exercise was to develop a scenario of a creative advertisement for a real business presented by each group of participants. The exercise included all what the participants learned during the day: principles of power thinking, associative search, elimination of contradictions, multi-screen system thinking, creative design principles. Although most of audience was not much familiar with TRIZ before the course, I was surprised how seemingly difficult concepts of "structured" creative thinking were quickly accepted and applied.
For those who missed the course, the next date is August 31, 2007, in Utrecht, Netherlands. The number of participants is limited, therefore it is important to register in time.
For those who missed the course, the next date is August 31, 2007, in Utrecht, Netherlands. The number of participants is limited, therefore it is important to register in time.
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Can you share any of the developed ideas?
If you mean the ideas of creative solutions developed during the training workshop, they were developed for real companies of the participants. If I have their permission, I will post them.
Well, the course was public, so the confidentiality should not have been an issue.
You are right, the course was public, although for a limited audience. And still, I feel responsible to first discuss with the authors of the ideas to see if they are interested in putting their ideas online for broad audience. This is sooner a moral obligation rather than juridical. It is often a case when similar public training workshops result in some interesting business or patentable technological ideas produced by participants; thus we assume their "moral copyright" and do not disclose such ideas to general public before an author of the idea personally agrees with such disclosure.
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