A power point presentation defining Lateral Thinking

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4. Can You Solve this Puzzle?

5. Can You Solve this Puzzle?

6. So What is Lateral Thinking???
• Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward
de Bono, a Maltese
psychologist, physician, and writer in the year
1967
• de Bono defines Lateral Thinking as methods
of thinking concerned with changing
concepts and perception.

7. Lateral Thinking
many problems require a different
perspective to solve successfully
Edward de Bono

8. Lateral Thinking
When in a situation when your shoes are
not quite clean, put your sock on your
hand and apply a bit of spit and polish to
shoe with sock..!!

9. Types of Thinking Tools
• Break the
Status Quo
• Search for
New Ideas
Idea
Generating
Tools
Harvest
Tools
• Receive
more value
from Idea
Generation
Focus
Tools
Treatment
Tools
• Face the
Reality

10. Idea Generating Tools
1. Random Entry Idea Generating Tool
- The thinker chooses an object at random, or
a noun from a dictionary, and associates it
with the area they are thinking about.

11. Idea Generating Tools
2. Provocation Entry Idea Generating Tool
- The use any of the provocation techniques—
wishful
thinking, exaggeration, reversal, escape, disto
rtion, or arising. The thinker creates a list of
provocations and then uses the most
outlandish ones to move their thinking
forward to new ideas.

12. Idea Generating Tools
3. Movement Techniques
- The thinker develops provocation operations
by the following methods: extract a
principle, focus on the difference, moment to
moment, positive aspects, special
circumstances.

13. Idea Generating Tools
4. Challenge Idea Generating Tool

14. Idea Generating Tools
5. Concept Fan Idea Generating Tool
- Ideas carry out concepts. This tool
systematically expands the range and
number of concepts in order to end up with a
very broad range of ideas to consider.

15. Idea Generating Tools
6. Disproving
- Based on the idea that the majority is always
wrong, take anything that is obvious and
generally accepted as "goes without
saying", question it, take an opposite
view, and try to convincingly disprove it. This
technique is similar to de Bono's "Black Hat"
of the Six Thinking Hats, which looks at the
ways in which something will not work.

16. Lateral Thinking and Problem Solving
 Problem Solving

17. Lateral Thinking and Problem Solving
 Creative Problem Solving

18. Lateral Thinking and Problem Solving
 Creative Problem Identification

19. Lateral Thinking and Problem Solving
 Lateral Problem Solving

20. Six Thinking Hats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHl6X740OsU

21. Case Study: Motorola

22. More Puzzles!!!
What starts with an ‘E’ and
ends with an ‘E’ but usually
only contains one letter?
An Envelope

23. More Puzzles!!!
In which sport do
winners move
backwards and losers
move forwards?

24. More Puzzles!!!
You are running a race.
You overtake the second
person, what position
are you in?

25. Complements…!!