The COCD Box method, so called as it was developed by the Centre for Development of Creative Thinking, can be used to establish the originality and feasibility of your concepts, enabling you to recognise which concepts should be abandoned, which...
In the Recognition stage you developed a set of design criteria to guide the development of your solution. This remains a vital record of the specifications that a successful innovation will likely need to fulfil. Use your design criteria to...
This activity will guide you in the use of informal methods to uncover information on potential solutions that isn't available through formal channels.
The innovation process acts as a map that will help you to identify where you are on your innovation journey, what milestones you need to reach, and what tools or approaches you can use to navigate the...
This activity will help you set parameters around the 'problem space' so that you can maintain focus and understand what is urgent and what is important.
If you have clearly identified your problem, then it is time to develop a problem statement. This is an articulation of your initial understanding of the problem.
The activities in this module capture your learning in a Challenge Brief containing a problem statement, an impact goal and design criteria for your solution.
This module provides tools and approaches to look beyond your problem’s symptoms to its causes and contributing factors. Tools and advice are provided to enable you to do this with both quick and rigorous approaches.
The activities in this module introduce a number of tools for identifying problems and opportunities, emphasising the need for opportunities to be matched with problems.
To invent something is to “create or design something that has not existed before” (Oxford Dictionary). Although invention is often associated with ‘lightbulb’ moments, it is more frequently the...