Looking for some new thinking to use during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 this year? Here are 9 resources to play with to spark your creative thinking engines. Remember the criteria for creativity: novel, useful, surprising ideas, decisions and/or actions.
Have others to recommend? Please list them in the comments section.
- IdeaChampions Free the Genie free trial. It’s an online area to be directed through solving a challenge in stages.
- Roger von Oech’s creative Whack on the Side of the Head. Click on the upper left corner of his webpage for a view his daily idea stimulus cards.
- Eyewire – Creativity card simple thought stirrers. Downloadable, you can make your own cards from their pdf to carry around.
- New & Improved has 15 online, downloadable Gator Breaks – ways to overcome knee-jerk negative reactions to ideas.
- Creativity Toolbox by Peter Lloyd gives online help to anyone who is stumped in a number of areas: brainstorming, mind mapping, name generating. Lots of fun here, even a quote generator!
- Like playing with words? Here’s a random word, phrase, sentence and paragraph generator. Lots of potential here. Click any of the words below the website name: watchout4snakes.
- More into visual that verbal? Here’s a site where you can create your own Picasso Head.
- Looking for or have practical/business ideas? Check out Idea A Day for practical suggestions and insights.
- New trends in thinking and business based on social, technological, environmental, economic and political shifts can be found at the World Future Society website.
