Technique Library

Functional Groupings:

• Full process
• Exploring
• Defining
• Gathering
• Generating
• Grouping
• Screening
• Prioritising
• Planning

1. Advantages, limits, unique qualities
2. Analysis of interactive decision areas (AIDA)
3. Alternative scenarios
4. Analogies
5. Anonymous voting
6. Assumption surfacing
7. Attribute listing (and variants)
8. Boundary examination
9. Boundary relaxation
10. Brain sketching
11. Brainwriting 635
12. Brainwriting game
13. Brainwriting pool
14. Browsing
15. Bug listing
16. Bullet proofing
17. Bunches of bananas
18. Card story-boards
19. Cartoon story-board
20. CATWOE
21. Casual mapping
22. Charrette
23. Clarification
24. Classical brainstorming
25. Clichés, proverbs and maxims
26. Collective notebook (CNB)
27. Comparison tables
28. Component detailing
29. Consensus mapping
30. Constrained brainwriting
31. Controlling imagery
32. Crawford slip writing
33. Creative problem solving (CPS)
34. Criteria for idea-finding potential
35. Critical path diagrams
36. Decision seminar
37. Delphi
38. Dialectical approaches
39. Dimensional analysis
40. Drawing
41. Essay writing
42. Estimate — discuss — estimate
43. Exaggeration (magnify or minify)
44. Excursions
45. Factors in 'selling' ideas
46. Fishbone diagram
47. Five Ws and H
48. Flow charts for action planning
49. Focus groups
50. Focusing
51. Force-field analysis
52. Force-fit game
53. Free association
54. 'Fresh eye' and networking
55. Gallery method
56. Gap analysis
57. Goal orientation
58. Greetings cards
59. Help, hinder
60. Heuristic ideation technique (HIT)
61. Highlighting
62. Idea advocate
63. Imagery for answering questions
64. Imagery manipulation
65. Implementation checklists
66. Improved nominal group technique
67. Interpretive structural modelling
68. Keeping a dream diary
69. Kepner Tregoe
70. KJ-method
71. Laddering
72. Less competitive methods of voting
73. Listing
74. Listing pros and cons
75. Metaplan information market
76. Mind-mapping
77. Morphological analysis
78. Multiple redefinition
79. Negative brainstorming
80. Nominal group technique (NGT)
81. Nominal-interacting technique
82. Notebook
83. Observer and merged viewpoints
84. Other people's definitions
85. Other people's viewpoints
86. Osborn's checklist
87. Paired comparison
88. Panel consensus
89. Paraphrasing keywords
90. Personal balance-sheet
91. Phases of integrated problem solving (PIPS)
92. Phillips 66 ('buzz' sessions)
93. Pictures as idea triggers
94. Pin cards
95. Pluses, potentials and concerns
96. Potential-problem analysis (PPA)
97. Preliminary questions
98. Problem-centered leadership (PCL)
99. Problem inventory analysis (PIA)
100. Progressive hurdles
101. Progressive revelation
102. Q-sort
103. Quality circles
104. Random Stimuli of various kinds
105. Receptivity to ideas
106. Reframing values
107. Relational words
108. Relaxation
109. Reversals
110. Rolestorming
111. Sculptures
112. Search conference
113. Semantic intuition
114. Sequential-attributes matrix
115. Simple rating methods
116. Snowball technique
117. Strategic options development and analysis (SODA)
118. Soft system method
119. Stakeholder analysis
120. Sticking dots
121. Stimulus analysis
122. Story writing
123. Strategic assumption testing
124. Strategic choice approach
125. Strategic management process
126. Successive element integration
127. Super Group^®
128. Super Heroes
129. Synectics
130. Systematised direct induction
131. Technology monitoring
132. Think tanks
133. Transactional planning
134. Trigger method
135. Using 'crazy' ideas
136. Using experts
137. Value brainstorming
138. Value engineering
139. Visual brainstorming
140. Visualising a goal
141. Who are you?
142. 'Why?'. etc — repeatable questions
143. Wishing
144. Working with dreams and images