IDEATION BASED ON SYNECTICS AND LOTUS BLOSSOM METHOD

Fold a page twice horizontally and twice vertically to end up with in $9$ equal$-$size boxes $($see illustration below$)$

In the centre, write your problem definition, or the core idea you want to explore. FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT SAY WE HAVE

$$What opportunities exist to improve productivity and engagement in remote workforce setting in Institutions?$$

Write one solution idea $($must be seemingly unrelated elements$-$synectics$)$ in each of the $8$ remaining boxes $$ that$$s your petals. Do not

elaborate. Just go and throw all the ideas you can, down to the eighth and last box. If you have more than eight ideas, remove one or

merge two.

Each one of those $8$ ideas is going to become the centre of the next set of lotus flowers $$ another eight pages! Now$$s the time to dig

deeper and uncover $8$ ideas for each petal $($this time relate with the core idea$-$What opportunities exist to improve road online learning

and engagement in remote setting in University setting?$.$ That$$s $64$ ideas for that one initial problem.

Filtering$-$ With the lotus blossom displayed on a wall. Read out the core $8$ ideas and ask the team to call out any that wouldn$$t align

with the project, product or company$$s vision, goals or value proposition... Generating that many ideas usually means waste and average

$$ if not terrible ones.

Highlighting, Value mapping $$ Prioritisation

IN A SEPARATE SHEET$-$If you plan to action those ideas, you may want to prioritise them. Students can just map top $3-4$ for each

quadrant.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENT$-$ One excel file with two sheet $($one ideation and one value mapping$)$