Years ago a professor at Stanford devised a check list of nine questions that can be applied to any problem. Used as a self- quiz, the questions spur imagination. They are:
- Is there a new way to do it?
- Can you borrow or adapt?
- Can you give it a new twist?
- Do you merely need more of the same?
- Less of the same?
- Is there a substitute?
- Can the parts be rearranged?
- What if we do just the opposite?
- Can ideas be combined?
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