Tuesday 8 April 2008

The Big Idea

If you haven’t had your stroke of genius, learn how to brainstorm. Creative thinking techniques, such as using random words or pictures to prompt new ideas, are at www.brainstorming.co.uk and the Creative Block tool at www.spaceforideas.uk.com similarly tries to prompt you into thinking more laterally.

Still stuck? Springwise.com describes itself as “brain food for entrepreneurial minds”. This is an idea-spotting network, with 8,000 contributors in 70 countries who report promising ideas they have noticed. Among the latest: fan-sponsored bands and sightseeing for joggers.

If you are still floundering, at www.halfbakery.com people post ideas that they won’t get round to using themselves. Great fun, and it might trigger that eureka moment.

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