Problem Solving & Decision Making This is not a math class
Running Head: 21 SYNECTIC STEPS
HU260 Week 5 Assignment: Applying the 21 Synectic Steps
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Grantham University
Applying the 21 Synectic Steps
Directions: After reading this week’s materials, answer the following prompts in your own words. Click directly in the highlighted fields to type your answers. Write in first person, be creative, and explain your reasoning.
You are using the 21 Synectic steps to trigger ideas about your problem or invention. Include images if they help. Don't fall prey to your preconceived ideas about your problem. You should not know how this solution turns out before you begin. By the time you get to the end, you should have some pretty amazing (outside the box) ideas. Things can fly, become invisible, or even travel through space and time. These crazy ideas are how many corporations develop innovative solutions.
You may write this in a paragraph form or simply answer the questions below. Your work should be 500 -750 words. Please delete these directions before turning in your work.
What problem or invention have you chosen to work on and why?
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Subtract – What can you omit or take away from it?
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Repeat – How can you echo, restate or duplicate it?
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Combine – What else can you connect to it?
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Add – How can you expand or augment it?
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Transfer – How can it be relocated or dislocated?
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Animate – How can you mobilize it?
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Empathize – How can you or others relate to it?
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Superimpose – How can you overlap or overlay to create a new it?
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Substitute – What could you switch in or with it?
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Change Scale – How can you change the size?
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Fragment – How can you break or split it up?
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Isolate – How can you crop or focus it?
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Distort – How can you misshape it?
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Contradict – How can you use reversal to change it?
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Disguise – How can you hide or mask it into another frame of reference?
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Parody – How can you make fun of it? i.e. comic, joke, irony
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Prevaricate – How can you present this to be interpreted as something else?
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Metamorphose – How can you change it? i.e., color, size, foundation
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Hybridize – What would you get if you crossed this with that?
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Mythologize – How can you transform this into an iconic figure?
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Fantasize – How outlandish can this be? The sky’s the limit!
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References
Invention Labs & Workshops | Synecticsworld. (n.d.). Synecticsworld. Retrieved from http://synecticsworld.com/invention-labs-workshops/
