Critical thinking for sustainable business solutions
By External Provider
About this course
This course will help you to discover how to flip your logical thinking and reasoning mind to enable you to generate a wide range of innovative ideas. Using techniques such as the SCAMPER (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put, Eliminate, Reverse) method to assist in generating ideas, you will assess when to apply the different thinking modes appropriately in the ideation process. You’ll apply critical reflective thinking to avoid personal biases and unintended consequences when you develop potential solutions. You will also analyse proto-concepts critically to ensure their suitability and the likelihood of positive impact. Via text-based resources and task books, you’ll gain comprehensive understanding and benefit from in-depth reference points as you formulate your ideas and plans.
What you will learn
- Understand how the creative ideation process functions to generate a broad range of relevant outcomes to your challenge domain and systems map.
- Converge on a selection of the most impactful ideas to take forward for implementation and (in)validation.