Creative Questions

When you are stuck in solving a problem, here are some questions, suggested by Michael LeBoeuf in Imagineering (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980) that you might ask your team to spark ideas... 

• What can be added? 
• What if this were exaggerated? 
• What else can this be used for? 
• What is being wasted that can be put to use? 
• What else is like this?  What else can be adapted? 
• Is there something I can duplicate? 
• How can this be done better and more cheaply? 
• How can this be made more appealing? 
• What can be substituted? 
• What should be subtracted? 
• Can it be done faster? 
• What ideas can be combined? 
• How can this be condensed? 
• How else can this be arranged? 
• What is the opposite of this? 
• What if nothing is done?

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