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.
Creative thinking cards from Idea Champions.
Hand-held fan-deck innovation tool – from SolutionPeople.
Creative problem method card deck – developed by Heinrich Altschuller (review by Chuck Frey at Innovation Tools).
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 iPhone application. (Click to open in iTunes).
Companion pack to the Creative Whack Pack (above) offers additional creative strategies.
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.
Mindmapping software (for PC and Mac).
