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SYNECTICS?, INC.
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Forty-two year old international consulting firm
dedicated to helping clients develop innovative
solutions.
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Primary Areas of Focus

• Vision and Strategy Planning
• New Product Development
• Business Process Innovation
• Develop Organizational Capability for Systemic
  Creativity
• Issue Specific Programs Where Fresh Thinking and
• Collaboration are Important

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Individual and Small Group Creativity
Knowledge and Skills in Task Domain
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Individual and Small Group Creativity
Knowledge and Skills in Task Domain
Motivation to Do the Task
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Skills in Creative Problem Solving
Knowledge and Skills in Task Domain













Motivation to Do the Task
Individual and Small Group Creativity
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Resources in the Task Domain
Organizational Innovation
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Organizational Innovation
Resources in the Task Domain
Motivation to Innovate
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Skills in Innovation Management
Resources in the Task Domain













Motivation to Innovate
Organizational Innovation
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Process Diamond
Task Headline
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Process Diamond
Task Headline
Exploratory
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Process Diamond
Task Headline
Springboards
Exploratory
Ideas Wishes Images Metaphors
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Process Diamond
Task Headline
Springboards
Connections which convert facts, feelings,
opinions, goals, ideas, images and issues into
invitations to further problem-solving
Exploratory
Ideas Wishes Images Metaphors
I wish or How to
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High
Level of Speculative Thinking in Original Idea
Low
Old
New
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Level of Speculative Thinking in Original Idea
Current Reality
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SYNECTICS - Coined Word from Greek Roots SYN
Bringing Together ECTICS Diverse Elements
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Level of Speculative Thinking in Original Idea
Diversity
Current Reality
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IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT. Walt
Disney
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Wishing
Level of Speculative Thinking in Original Idea
Diversity
Current Reality
Low
Old
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The metaphor is probably the most fertile
power possessed by men. Ortega Y Gassett
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Analogy/ Metaphor
Wishing
Level of Speculative Thinking in Original Idea
Diversity
Current Reality
Low
Old
New
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If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there
is no hope for it. Albert Einstein
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Absurdity
Analogy/ Metaphor
Wishing
Level of Speculative Thinking in Original Idea
Diversity
Current Reality
Low
Old
New
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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing
as everyone else and thinking something
different. Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Irrelevance
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Absurdity
Analogy/ Metaphor
Wishing
Level of Speculative Thinking in Original Idea
Diversity
Current Reality
Low
Old
New
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Task
EXPLORATORY
SELECT
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Selection
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Attractiveness
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Newness
Attractiveness
Feasibility
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Newness
Attractiveness
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Newness
Attractiveness
Feasibility
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Newness
Attractiveness
Feasibility
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Newness
Attractiveness
Feasibility
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Newness
Attractiveness
Feasibility
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Newness
Attractiveness
Feasibility
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Newness
Attractiveness
Feasibility
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Process Diamond
Task Headline
Springboards
Exploratory
Selection



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Meeting Roles and Responsibilities - Common Form
Chairperson
Participant
Participant
Participant
Participant
Participant
Participant
Participant
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Meeting Roles and Responsibilities - Optimal
Chairperson

• Designs process plan
• Manages time and flow
• Makes certain ideas get heard and
  recorded
• Builds and protects climate

• Defines meeting objectives
• Calls the meeting
• Invites the resources
• Decides what we work on
• Leads implementation

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Meeting Roles and Responsibilities
Resource Role
Resource
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