Ideas from Multiple PerspectiVes Good, Bad, Interesting (GBI) ‏

1. IDEA GENERATION & OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION PROJECT 1 CLASS 17 JULY 2008 Ideas from Multiple PerspectiVesGood, Bad, Interesting (GBI)‏

2. GBI • Encourages Mental Flexibility • Very important skills to be creative • Originates from Dr Edward De Bono's concept of lateral thinking • Devil's advocate (Advocatus Diaboli) role play • someone who takes a position, sometimes one he or she disagrees with, for the sake of argument. This process can be used to test the quality of the original argument and identify weaknesses in its structure. (wiki)‏

3. How to do this exercise? 1. Clearly state the Theme or Topic and make sure everyone understands 2. Think about what's good about it, what's bad about it, and what's interesting about it. 3. Ask each member to present his/her “G”, one at a time, in sequence (Team members can pass if they don’t have an idea)‏ 4. Go another round, this time to get the “B”, and later another round for the “I”

4. How to do this exercise? 5. Record all the ideas exactly as given. No judgements are made until the end of the session. 6. After all the ideas are listed, check for clarification by the team member 7. The group then examines each idea in turn, expanding them and perhaps combining and eliminating some

5. Example 1 THEME: CHARACTER ENCODING SYSTEM Good: Enable viewing of character/scripts for many languages Bad: Complicatedness and difficulties in standardizing Interesting: Create own encoding system to support own website

6. Example 2 THEME: ILLITERACY & POOR EDUCATION Good: Keeps manual labour force numbers adequately high Bad: People are ill-equipped to make sound decisions beyond narrow areas Interesting: Uneducated people are easier to control for power and profit.

7. Example 3 THEME: COMPUTER VIRUS Good: AntiVirus companies make big profits. Bad: Digital systems suffer. Interesting: The mechanism of virus, which are meant for living things, are adapted for machines

8. Technology Application After listing GBI, brainstorm to suggest on what technology(ies) would be appropriate to support every each of the G, B & I.

9. Conclusion • Most people react to a new idea by either liking or disliking it. They then use their intelligence to defend their decision because of their need to be right. The Good Bad Interesting exercise forces creative thinking to generate multiple perspectives on an idea. • It shows that ideas can be seen as good, as bad or as interesting, depending on the particular frame of mind you are coming from. Any idea can be looked at in a different way by reframing it. • The idea changes in the mind of a person depending on how they are looking at it. This is important to remember in all negotiations between people with opposing viewpoints. • The GBI creative thinking exercise enables you to understand other people much better. It will make you a more flexible thinker. • This exercise will also shape your mindset to possibly suggest any appropriate technology to suit different viewpoints.

10. Equipments & Tools • A4 paper- to write Theme • http://www.creativethinkingwith.com/Creative-Thinking-Exercises.html