Creative Problem Solving with Jan Buijis
- What’s the problem?
- What’s your idea?
- How are you going to pull it off?
Nothing could be simpler. The ‘Buffalo System’ of creative problem solving adds a bit more, in business, not prone to responding intuitively to situations unless you’re the owner of the place, a good deal more ferreting around is required:
- Mess
- Data
- Problem
- Idea
- Solution
- Acceptance
When I ran a creative problem solving workshop for the second Tutor Marked Assignment of the OU MBA Module B822 it ran like this:
I might have typed it out like a Running Order for a TV show.
Here I was able to remind myself to ‘diverge’ and ‘converge’, to push people to expand their minds, to break away from initial concepts and ideas … and then to draw them back to some kind of focus.
