Tools for creating ideas

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Here are tools for creating ideas, either individually or with other people. 1. Absence Thinking: Think about what is not there. 2. Art streaming: Keep creating until you get through the blocks. 3. Assumption Busting: Surfacing and challenging unconscious assumptions. 4. Attribute Listing: Listing attributes of objects and then challenging them. 5. Brainstorming: The classic creative method for groups. 6. Braindrawing: Good for reticent groups. 7. Brainmapping: Combining brainwriting and mind-mapping. 8. Brainwriting: Group doodling for non-verbal stimulation. 9. Breakdown: Careful decomposition to explore the whole system. 10. Challenge: Challenge any part of the problem. 11. Crawford Slip Method: Getting ideas from a large audience. 12. A Day In The Life Of...: Building creative tension from contextualized situations. 13. Delphi Method: Explore ideas or gain consensus with remote group. 14. Doodling: Let your subconscious do the drawing. 15. Essence: Looking elsewhere whilst retaining essential qualities. 16. Forced Conflict: Using conflict to stimulate the subconscious. 17. Guided Imagery: Letting your subconscious give you a message. 18. How-How Diagram: Break down problem by asking 'how'. 19. How to: Frame statements as 'How to' to trigger focused thinking. 20. Incubation: Letting the subconscious do the work. 21. The Kipling method (5W1H): Ask simple questions for great answers. 22. Lateral thinking: Thinking sideways to create new ideas. 23. Lotus Blossom: Unfold the flower of extended ideas. 24. Chunking: Go up and then down elsewhere. 25. Mind-mapping: Hierarchical breakdown and exploration. 26. Modeling: For the artist in everyone. 27. Morphological Analysis: Forcing combinations of attribute values. 28. Nominal Group Technique: Getting ideas with minimal personal interaction. 29. Pause: Think more deeply for a minute. 30. Post-Up: Brainstorming with Post-It Notes. 31. Provocation: Shake up the session by going off-piste. 32. PSI: Problem + Stimulus = Idea! 33. Random Words: Using a random word as a stimulus. 34. Rightbraining: Combine incomplete doodles around the problem. 35. Role-play: Become other people. Let them solve the problem. 36. Remembrance: Remembering solutions not yet discovered. 37. Reversal: Looking at the problem backwards. 38. Reverse Brainstorming: Seek first to prevent your problem from happening. 39. Rubber-ducking: Get someone else to listen to your talk. 40. SCAMPER: Using action verbs as stimuli. 41. Six Thinking Hats: Think comfortably in different ways about the problem. 42. Storyboarding: Creating a visual story to explore or explain. 43. Take a break: When creativity is fading. 44. Talk streaming: Just talk and talk and talk until you unblock. 45. TRIZ Contradiction Analysis: Use methods already used in many patents. 46. Unfolding: Gradually unfolding the real problem from the outside. 47. Value Engineering: Deep analysis to understand and innovate in areas of key value. 48. Visioning: Creating a motivating view of the future. 49. Wishing: State ideas as wishes to expand thinking. 50. Write streaming: Write and write and write until you unblock.