Inspiring Activity

Most meetings consist of listening to presentations and discussions held around a table – which is a process that has remained largely unaltered for at … Read more

Creativity Tools

Creativity iFrames are meeting templates which have been constructed to stimulate and challenge the minds of the group to take different perspectives on a situation, … Read more

SCAMPER

SCAMPER is a really useful tool (or more accurately, a checklist) for exploring creative possibilities and opportunities around a solution or situation.

TRIZ

TRIZ, a truly amazing resource for stimulating productive innovation, was developed from researching the entire patents database for the core inventive principles which underpinned innovation. The … Read more

Reversal

The creativity of the human mind is excellent at making progress back toward something it understands and fairly hopeless at making progress away from its … Read more

Reframing Matrix

The Reframing Matrix is a technique for looking at the problem from different perspectives (planning, product, people and potential, rather than the more abstract perspectives … Read more

Problem Restatement

Problem Restatement is a technique for looking at the problem from different perspectives (usually more abstract ones, rather than the stakeholder ones reflected in the … Read more

SWOT Analysis

SWOT analysis is a tool which enables groups or individuals gain a better understanding on the current situation in terms of its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities … Read more

Hopes & Concerns

Hopes & Concerns is a tool which enables groups to outline and share their positive and negative feelings about an event from the outset.

Six Thinking Hats

Six Thinking Hats is a useful tool for taking different perspectives on a situation. It was developed by Edward deBono, and despite its apparent simplicity it … Read more

Kipling List

The Kipling List is taken from a very short poem by Rudyard Kipling: “I had six serving men, they taught me all I knew, there … Read more

Impact/Ease Grid

The Impact/Ease grid is a four-box model (a 2×2 positioning chart) for plotting solutions (or ideas or strategies) to reflect the impact of taking them … Read more

Force-Field Analysis

The Force-Field Diagram is premised on the assumption that people and events behave (or fail to behave) as they do because of the balance of … Read more

Planning Chart

The Planning Chart is simply a grid, with either months, or numbers along the top, to represent periods of time into the future, and rows … Read more

iFrames to support meeting tools

iFrames are meeting templates; large workspaces which encourage simultaneous participation from everyone. They provide the means for everyone to engage: to contribute and ‘listen’ at … Read more