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Creative Problem-Solving Methods: Process, Crowdsourcing, and Team Ideation

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Summary

Creative problem solving helps entrepreneurs move from noticing an unmet need to exploring possible responses. This lesson introduces the five-step process and focuses on its first two steps: clarify and ideate.

Creativity is the development of original ideas to solve an issue. For entrepreneurs, creativity means using imagination to address a real need and find effective solutions, rather than accepting existing practices as the only options.

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What is creativity?
The development of original ideas to solve an issue.
What are the five steps of creative problem solving?
Clarify, ideate, develop, implement, and evaluate.
What is a ghost problem?
A problem that is unknown or poorly understood.
How can a fishbone diagram help clarify a problem?
It organizes and explores possible causes.
What is crowdsourcing?
Inviting a distributed group to contribute ideas or complete work.

Quiz questions

  1. What does crowdsourcing involve?Answer: Inviting a distributed group to contribute ideas or complete work.
  2. Which practice supports productive brainstorming?Answer: Generate many ideas before evaluating or rejecting them.
  3. What does storyboarding do?Answer: Shows stages of a process or solution in a graphic sequence.
  4. Why should an organization state ownership and usage terms for crowdsourced submissions?Answer: To clarify rewards and how submitted ideas may be used or owned.
  5. Why should an entrepreneur avoid assuming that the most popular crowdsourced idea is best?Answer: A group may converge on popular opinions that are not the strongest solution.

Based on Entrepreneurship by Michael Laverty, Chris Littel (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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