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Inventive Questions

Customers of Innovations

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Below are some examples of (1) metaphoric and (2) practical solutions

 

Magic Tool

Metaphoric Solution

Practical Solution

Balloon

Elevate your product / your company above the competition

  Surprise To Win 

  Create greater value Innovations; Develop a new-to-the-world product  

  Invent more effective differentiation and creative marketing strategies

Take a helicopter view

  Work on your business  

  Build synergies and balance your business system

  Invent new growth strategies 

Set a stretch goal

  Create and articulate an inspiring vision and strategic intent 

  Launch a crusade

Travel to a new place

Discover new opportunities 

  Create a new market niche 

  Develop a Blue-Ocean strategy

 

Flashlight

Find new ways of doing things

  Challenge assumptions; ask 'Why? What if?' questions

Discover customer needs; obtain market insight or competitor intelligence

  Make trend spotting practices a habit

  Create early warning teams

Find new partners

  Define what is required to be superb, but is outside your capabilities

  Look for the desired core competencies and great synergy potential

Find the problem

  Use the 5-Why process

Find an innovation solution to a problem

  Brainstorm; take different perceptual positions; discover opportunities

Make rules more visible

  Promote corporate values / guiding principles / idea evaluation guidelines

 

Headset

Communicate with employees

  Create a more effective suggestion system  >>>

  Communicate the knowledge and information that people need

  Facilitate cross-pollination of ideas

Communicate with customers

  Listen to customers; obtain customer feedback

  Partner with customers for development of new solutions

Communicate with external experts

  Exchange knowledge and ideas with a diverse group of experts and innovators

  Inspire criticism to discover improvement opportunities

 

Fishing Rod

Experiment with different baits to find out what works best

Hire away a key player of a competitor;

"Catch" investors / partners

Beta-test a new product

Experiment with various marketing approaches and techniques

Ask learning SWOT questions

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Knife

 

 

 

Brood

 

 

 

Rope

 

 

 

Hammer

 

 

 

Trophy

 

 

 

Money