TECHNIQUE 15 Creative Challenge

This technique is particularly helpful when the group is in danger of domination by certain participants, or when team members may hold back because of the group makeup. However, if you re looking for more outside-the-box ideas, other ideation techniques may be more powerful, such as Provocation and Movement (Technique 22) or Creative Challenge (Technique 15). 

If you don t end up with enough viable ideas, create another imaginary statement by replacing a different element and go through the steps again. Or try another idea generation approach such as Creative Challenge (Technique 15) or Random Stimulus (Technique 21). 

Choose a focus topic—a product, service, process, or business model for which you need ideas. Make a list of the current features, characteristics, and aspects of the focus topic. To create the list, you can use brainstorming, or an approach like Creative Challenge (Technique 15). 

Creative Challenge helps you investigate the necessity, validity, and uniqueness of the current solution or approach. As such, this technique can be extremely helpful during the idea-generation phase of your innovation project—and can give you the impetus you need to discard your current solutions in favor of ones that are more ideal. 

Creative Challenge is not a rapid-fire brainstorming technique. Rather, it leverages a different approach called E/RJA ... 

You can follow-up Functional Analysis (Technique 13) with Creative Challenge to improve insufficient functions or eliminate undesirable ones. 

Catalysis has lost a great leader. For over 60 years the creative genius of Paul Hugh Emmett challenged and stimulated the catalysis community worldwide. The techniques he developed and the mechanistic studies he directed have been vitally important in transforming catalysis from an empirical art into a highly sophisticated science. Loved and admired by all who knew him, Paul Emmett is remembered as a pioneer whose guidance will be sorely missed. 

The two purifications described here are as different as the two proteins involved. No two purifications are exactly alike, but the principles of purification, as stated at the outset, are quite similar. Fortunately, an almost endless variety of purification techniques exists. This variety is both helpful and challenging because a great deal of knowledge and creativity are required to exploit it. In addition to professional expertise, the two most important things required to make a purification possible are an unambiguous assay for the protein in question and a means of stabilizing the protein during purification. 

Supported metallocene catalysts are an important field of research for the polymer industry and shall be mentioned here only briefly. Single-site olefin polymerization catalysts have been extensively investigated and are now achieving wide acceptance in the polyolefin industry. In order to achieve commercial significance, these soluble metallocene catalysts have to be immobilized on a carrier. The challenges of supporting these catalysts have been addressed in many creative ways and this topic has been taken up in an excellent review by Carnahan et al. [87]. This paper mainly describes anchoring techniques to silica, but these concepts may also be applied for other purposes. 

In order to find unique, creative solutions to difficult challenges that were not resolved by past tried and true techniques, one must get away from the conventional state of mind that is often unimaginative, frustrating, repetitive, and negative. The nature of some problems tends to invite unimaginative suggestions and attempts only to use past approaches. 

It is possible to take certain simple loops and stack them into different tracks to create chords, as shown in Figure 3.32. This is a very interesting and creative method that allows you to create all sorts of major and minor chords. It is especially well suited to electronic or dance music, where strange and rich sounds are highly valued. This technique is limited in more conventional acoustic projects because of the artificial way the chords are created. While it can also be a challenging and time-consuming process to find loops suitable for this type of work and then to layer the events into dynamic chords, chording events can produce unique harmonics. To create chords from events ... 

From the specific examples cited, it should be clear that these techniques can provide detailed information on the structure of moderately sized peptides (or molecules of equivalent size). There are challenges with them to peptides with more than 20 amino acids, for example, from both the experimental and theoretical points of view. As this field is still relatively new, one can expect creative solutions to many of these obstacles to emerge from the laboratories currently applying these techniques. 

Low-income populations in developing nations frequently use community-based financing or insurance schemes, often with great creativity (Rutherford 1999). However, due to the covariant nature of catastrophes, community-based financing techniques are not well suited to respond to events that may affect the entire participating conununity at once. This has spawned an exploration into whether formal insurance tools can overcome this challenge for developing nations (Linnerooth-Bayer and Mechler 2009). 

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