WEEK 7: Stepping Stone & What If Technique

Stepping Stone:
(Source: Lecture notes)

• involves taking advantage of other people's initial ideas or from one’s own ideas when trying to solve a problem.
• Ideas that are often discarded due to reasons which either they won't work, or because they are illogical.
• The concept of the stepping stone method is first to record these ‘crazy’ ideas, and than turn it into ideas that is workable and feasible.

What If Technique:
(Source: Lecture Notes)

• also known as escape method, is a provocative technique and can lead to spectacular new ideas and approaches to problems.
• Escape method encourages the doer in asking “what if” question as a way of looking for potential problems and opportunities.
• “what if” question might not lead to a practical idea, however the more often it is being practiced, the more productive it will become.