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The Practice for Bold Thinking uses a number of proven and internationally recognised techniques for creative thinking:
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CoRT - a restraint on hasty and nonchalant thinking
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TRIZ - a technique for inventive problem solving
CoRT thinking tools
A restraint on hasty and nonchalant thinking
The CoRT Thinking Tools from the Cognitive Research programme were developed by Edward de Bono around 1970 to be able to teach thinking skills in schools. But their use has not been limited to schools for quite some time now. CoRT Thinking Tools consciously focus your attention on the different aspects of thinking.
They are instructions for thinking. They support the practical application, not the analysis, of thinking..
The CoRT thinking techniques are simple, but powerful. They can cause shifts in perception and decisions.
The Practice for Bold Thinking uses CoRT Thinking Tools to enable employees to anticipate influences from the surroundings earlier and with more success.
Lateral thinking
Make a resolute break with your traditional thinking patterns.
Lateral thinking is thinking sideways, at right angles to the straight forward thinking of logical reasoning. Out of the box thinking.
Our brain is a self-organising information processing system. in which information is ordered in patterns. Lateral thinking strives to circumvent these thinking patterns. There is nothing mystical about this, you can learn to do it – and it is fun! Lateral thinking enables you to consciously design ‘what could be’.
These techniques, which were created by Edward de Bono in 1980, are used in every company of world renown.
Lateral thinking techniques include: Creative hit list, Concept fan, Creative Task Sheet, Challenge, Provocation, Random Entry and Checklist Current Thinking.
The Practice for Bold Thinking uses lateral thinking techniques to steer innovative policy processes and for making organisations more innovative.
The six thinking hats
Make group thinking faster and more efficient..
The six thinking hats were developed by Edward de Bono in the eighties. The technique is used by executives in the largest companies in the world as well as by 4-year old toddlers. The value of the six thinking hats lies not simply in its individual application, but primarily in thinking ‘together’ in groups.
Brain workers think alternately using one of the six thinking methods, each of which is represented by a coloured hat. Instead of exchanging sequential arguments, the thinkers look simultaneously into different aspects of a situation.
This technique makes meetings last a lot shorter and they produce more results.
The Practice for Bold Thinking often uses the six thinking hats technique during the initial familiarisation with the client’s situation. They also use this technique when developing policy innovations and during idea workshops in which several tens of people participate simultaneously.
TRIZ
For innovation related to a new technical or business concept.
TRIZ originated around 1946 from the observation of Genrich Altshuller that patents have common characteristics related to the types of problem and their solutions. TRIZ is the Russian abbreviation for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.
It turns out that inventive solutions often solve contradictions in design requirements that are “perceived as natural”.
Many principles have been described over the past fifty years and systematic techniques have been developed for inventive problem solving. A TRIZ databank will help find solutions that can be used in many areas of business and technology.
TRIZ is currently being used successfully in many of the Fortune 500 companies.
The Practice for Bold Thinking uses TRIZ techniques to devise new products and overcome technical problems during product development.
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