Archive for April, 2008

How to deal with a dumb idea
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

As part of our Creative Block Busting programme, we spend time talking about how to look at new ideas. We emphasise that there are only plus points and practical implementation concerns to an idea. There is nothing called a dumb idea.
Of course, no one was willing to accept this. In fact, managers felt that [...]

“One man’s bug, is another man’s business”
Sunday, April 13th, 2008

We were working with a group of housewives. The task was to arrive at a new value proposition for a kitchen equipment. We were listening to the housewives talking about their dream kitchen.
As we were coming close to the session I asked “Tell me, what bugs you most about your kitchen?” I might as well [...]