The Tools
Some of the most effective tools to assist you with your entire problem solving… from problem identification, through leading a project and implementation.
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Do you have lots to do, but don’t know what do first? Get yourself in order with the Idea Sandbox: Prioritizer. FREE web-based tool!
Also available for the iPhone at:
Our very own FREE web-based sandbox of ideas. It is chock-full of thought starters and brainstorming tools specifically crafted to help you uncover your needed solution.
Idea Sandbox: Decision Making Tool
Our Excel-based decision making template helps you make the best quality decisions. Allows you to pose a question, and offer several potential solutions. Then, you rank each potential solution against each other. Instructions and sample provided. (Excel Spreadsheet, 23kb)
Technically a drawing/diagramming application for the Mac. It is the only tool I use to create mindmaps and diagrams for clients and on the Idea Sandbox site/blog.
My favorite mindmap application for the map. Simple. Clean. Fast. Easy. Also available for the iPhone.
Hand-held fan-deck innovation tool – from SolutionPeople. Work through the series of cards to ask and answer probing questions.
64 Creative Strategies to provoke and inspire your thinking. Created by best-selling author Roger von Oech and adapted from his book A Whack on the Side of the Head.
Now available as an awesome iPhone application. (Click to open in iTunes).
Companion pack to the Creative Whack Pack (above) offers additional creative strategies.
Creative thinking cards from Idea Champions.
Creative problem method card deck – developed by Heinrich Altschuller (review by Chuck Frey at Innovation Tools).
Mindmapping software (for PC and Mac).
