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Title: Idea Generation


1
Idea Generation
  • How to come up with ideas for your LCVP
    Enterprise Activity
  • Dorothy Lavery Deborah Dunne

2
General Principles
  • Rule nothing out, nothing in
  • No idea is a bad idea
  • A good idea is not necessarily a new idea
  • Be creative
  • Think outside the box
  • Make it fun

3
Techniques for generating ideas
  • Brainstorming
  • Mind maps
  • Worst idea
  • Visualisation
  • An old product
  • Discussion

4
Sources of inspiration
  • Look at what others have done successfully
  • Look at whats done in other countries eg an
    idea from your holidays
  • Dragons Den
  • Websites
  • Recycle an old product
  • Modify or improve a product
  • Find a gap in the market
  • Use a skill
  • An interest or hobby

5
Now its your turn to work!!
  • We are going to divide you into groups and set
    you a task
  • Using one of four techniques, your group must
    come up with as many ideas as possible

6
Brainstorm
  • Limit time (4-6 minutes)
  • Appoint someone to record ideas
  • Rule nothing out
  • Think outside the box!
  • TASK Take a SKILL you have or a NEED in your
    school or community and brainstorm ideas

7
Mind Map
  • TASK Make a list of products or services you
    could develop based on your hobby
  • Football or Basketball

8
Object
  • TASK Make a list of products you could make
    from an old

9
Worst idea
  • TASK Take the worst idea for a product or
    service and see how you could adapt it to
    make it viable
  • A chocolate teapot A glass hammer
  • A square wheel Sell ice to the Eskimos
  • Edible dog lead Camouflaged golf balls

10
Brainstorm
  • Need in your school/community
  • Educational resources
  • Breakfast club
  • Lunches
  • Breakfast in Bed
  • Gardening
  • Washing cars
  • Skill
  • Photography
  • Web design
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Art
  • Cookery
  • Woodwork

11
Mind Map
12
Mind Map
13
Mind Map
14
From an old pair of Jeans
  • Shorts
  • Hot Pants
  • Bags
  • Hand Bags
  • School Bag
  • Week end Bag
  • Make up Bag
  • Purse
  • Wallet
  • Pencil Case
  • Dolls Clothes
  • Wall Organiser
  • Waist Coat
  • Bikini
  • Picture Frames
  • Hair Scrunchies
  • Passport Wallet
  • Table Mats
  • Tea Pot Cosy

15
Worst idea Glass Hammer
  • Paper weight
  • Ornament
  • Jewellery
  • Retirement gift
  • Booby prize
  • Money box
  • Ashtray
  • Vase
  • Egg cup
  • Name plate
  • Photo frame
  • Garden ornament

16
LCVP National Conference 2009
  • All Conference presentations can be accessed on
  • www.lcvptpn.net
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