Techniques For Generating Business Ideas For Ideapreneurs

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Unit Purpose and Aims

The purpose of this unit is to;

This unit will equip the student with a range of tools to help them generate business ideas for  potential spin off businesses and services.

Learning Outcomes

Learners will;

1. Understand a range of approaches used by businesses for generating ideas.

Learners can;

1.1  Identify a business problem and the causes

1.2 Demonstrate evidence of focussed thought to solve that problem

1.3. Explore parallel ideas and solutions

1.4. Demonstrate evidence of continual thinking/note taking

1.5 Describe at least 3 different approaches used by businesses to solve their problems.

2. Understand the role of continual idea generation in business

2.1 Describe how to integrate idea generation into business operations.

2.2 Describe how to  feed the results of idea generation to the rest of the business.

 

Learning Tools, Resources & Links

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Alex Bogusky, Rob Schuham and John Bielenberg present COMMON

Worth watching through the 1h presentation as they explain how they founded this idea, business, or however else you want to call it. Should provide some good insights into how you can come up with useful ideas.

Where Good Ideas Come From.

The importance of sharing ideas with other people. Steven Johnson discusses coming up with creative ideas through connecting, borrowing and combining ideas and how technology is playing its part in helping us accumulate original ideas.