Semifinals

• Analytical: thinking about breaking a problem into details or looking at a problem in a common way to produce idea in improving or innovating products.
• Search: it involves linking personal experiences that are significant to the existing problem.
• Relationship: seeking to establishing a link between concepts that are not usually connected.
• Development: this employs the modification of existing concepts to make improved choices potentials.
• Interpersonal: you need to have interaction with different groups to generate ideas.
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

  A) Self-actualization

  B) Esteem

  C) Love and

  D) Belongingness

  E) Safety

  F) Basic Needs

  
• Research: the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
• Generative Research: type of research where new opportunities are identified and the needs are discovered.
• Evaluative Research: type of research that where feedback on experiments are collected and these are applied in repetitive ways in order to progress; used to assess the success of a solution that has already been addressed in some way.
• Validating Research: aka Traditional Market Research; is purposely for understanding what is presently happening; it focuses more on taking an assessment of the overall market for a product or service.
• Interviews: important tool to identify and empathize customers needs from ideas and opportunities.
• Open-ended Questions: can be used to discover opportunities, outlooks, and causes; answerable by an essay.
• Close-ended Questions: are likely to center on facts and answering the questions "what, where, when"; answerable by yes or no.
• Types of Effective Interview Questions

  • Explorative
  • Affective
  • Reflective
  • Probing
  • Analytical
  • Clarifying
• Types of Research

  • Generative Research
  • Evaluative Research
  • Validating Research
• How to start with ideas?

  • Analytical
  • Search
  • Relationship
  • Development
  • Interpersonal