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Cards and Stimulators: click on the product to order Personal Pattern Overlay™ is a powerful tool to help you find new ideas and creative solutions to problems. 1. A PPO cube is a dodecahedron - a twelve sided geometric figure about 2" tall. On each of the 12 faces is a colored spot. To set up your PPO cube, you will take a pen and write on each spot the name of something you know a lot about. It may be a hobby, your profession, a sport you play or even a country to which you've traveled. PPO shows you how to take your own patterns, knowledge and life experiences as an analogy database to overlay on your problem to trigger new ideas and solutions! 2. Next, you will take the problem or project you are working on and define it in detail. Make sure you understand the problem and don't get clouded by symptoms or emotions. 3. Then,  roll the cube and look at the topic that rolls up. Begin to look at relationships between the problem and the topic which came up on the cube. Click here to get your copy for $19.95   The Innovative Whack Pack Looking for creative inspiration? Try consulting the Innovative Whack Pack. This worthy companion to the Creative Whack Pack will fire your imagination! Each card in the deck packs a two-sided creative punch. One side has a provocative insight about innovation from Heraclitus, the world’s first creativity teacher. These 2,500 year old ideas - such as "You can’t step into the same river twice," "Everything flows," "That which opposes produces a benefit," and "Dogs bark at what they don’t understand" -will give you a fresh perspective. The other side contains a creativity strategy inspired by each insight. Roger von Oech enriches these strategies with amusing anecdotes and intriguing questions that will "whack" you out of old thought patterns. The result is a treasury of sixty creativity strategies that include: Appreciate Turbulence, Ask A Fool, See the Obvious, Beware of Hubris, and Reverse Assumptions. Play with the deck on a regular basis. Not only will it provoke original thoughts, it will also become a wise companion whose guidance you will welcome! "The Innovative and Creative Whack Packs are the indispensable salt and pepper of the creative thinker's daily diet." Free the Genie Cards 55 Ways to Get Unstuck, Out of the Lamp (and Create the Results You Want) Free the Genie is a set of 55 creative thinking cards for open-minded people committed to bringing something new and extraordinary into their lives, their businesses, and the world. Think of the deck, if you like, as a personal genie — a powerful, 24/7 assistant whose sole mission in life is to help you realize yours. If you're stuck, the cards will get you unstuck. If you're already unstuck, the cards will take you to a higher ground — the place where creativity, inspiration, breakthrough ideas, and genuine commitment are waiting to be tapped The Whack Pack is made up of 64 cards all with a different strategies for creative thinking. Some provide techniques to generate new ideas. Some lend decision-making advice. And some give you the "kick" you need to get your ideas into action.   The ThinkPak: A Brainstorming Card Deck. Includes 56 idea-stimulating cards with words to provoke new thoughts. This is a very practical tool for use in brainstorming sessions. "To create a new idea, product, service, process, break-through or whatever else you need, just take a subject and change it into something else. The nine principal ways of changing a subject, that the Thinkpak is based on, are: Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Magnify, Modify, Put to other use, Eliminate, Rearrange, and Reverse." Comes with a booklet. The IdeaFACTORYis for sparking brilliant ideas, and unblocking creativity. It contains 50 miniature objects and symbols carefully selected to inspire creativity and generate ideas. It is based on a creativity technique called random stimulation, which is when you pick a random object to inspire ideas towards your project. Comes with instructions and 5 additional games. $20 including shipping and handling The most fun you'll ever have thinking." Dr. Brian Storm Innovation Kit Here's your one-stop shopping for everything you need (but forgot to ask for) in order to jump start innovation. Stop talking about all your great ideas and start realizing them. Each Innovation Kit includes: One deck of 55 Free the Genie cards Five Creative Thinking Guidebooks One 10 Commandments of Innovating poster One Grow Your Business card One What's the Big Idea? ticket book Software: click on the product to order   For MS-DOS Computers The Idea Generator Plus Brainstorm at 90 M.P.H. Perhaps you're planning a new advertising campaign or trying to cut expenses...developing marketing plans or contemplating a career change. In fact, if there is any problem you need to solve, you need The Idea Generator, easy-to-use brainstorming software, which pushes you to examine a problem from new angles and points of view. The Idea Generator boosts creative thinking and planning skills by dividing the problem solving process into three logical parts: Problem Statement. Define the problem and related objectives to ensure each brainstorming session has a tight focus.   Idea Generation. Choose from seven thought-provoking techniques to create problem solving ideas, such as: Other Perspectives, Metaphors for the Situation and Reverse Your Goals.   Evaluation. Rank ideas vs. objectives, and consider long- and short-term costs and benefits of new ideas. Print a Summary Report and list your new ideas, ranked for further consideration and analysis.  Or print the report to a text file and use a word processor to turn your ideas into marketing plans, new products or that best selling novel! The Idea Generator enhances the most powerful "expert system" ever devised -- your own mind!   System Requirements · IBM PC or HP100/200LX Palmtop · DOS 2.0 or higher · 256 K Memory · Available in French -- en Français Was $107 NOW! $50 including shipping and handling     IdeaBank Enterprise Software to Spark Breakthrough Thinking IdeaBank provides an integrated, technology-enabled idea generation and management system that will enable your organization to dramatically increase the quality and quantity of innovative new product ideas generated by its workforce. This 24/7 innovation-sparking system makes the process of generating, developing, collecting, and evaluating new ideas much more dependable than current practice. We estimate that the introduction of our Idea Management system will significantly increase the number of new ideas generated, developed, and implemented throughout your organization. Although only a small number of ideas will ever become big revenue producers, by creating a place for ideas to be developed and collected, the sheer number of new product introductions deposited will soon soar into the hundreds. This will give senior leadership a much greater chance of finding those few that will succeed.