• Initial conditions• Boundary Conditions• Indirect Experience• Direct Experience
How do we go out of the box?
Divergent Information
What we knowWhat we
haven’t Yet thought about
Long thinking…..
Look For Alternatives and not the correct answers
What is the value of our idea?
It is as if we landed on a new planet
We kill ieds
•We don’t feel entitled to be inventors.•If the idea is correct somebody else would
have thought about it.
Killing
Ideas
Match the new idea with initial focus
Let our idea solve another problem
When is it a good idea to think out of the box?
•Allow irrelevance•Mix and Match•Use metaphors
Thinking out of the box about
• We need to know how to get out of the box, where to go and how to come back into the box.• Outside the box is risky but it is a necessity to our dignity since we all possess the same information.•Encourage divergent information and be ready to commit mistakes.• Serendipity happens all the time we need to have eyes to see that.