Selecting ideas after an ideation session can be really dangerous because the risk of loosing the most creative ideas and get back to "safe" ideas is really high.
To avoid that trap, the COCD Box methodology, a methodology developed by the Center for Development of Creative Thinking enables to select 3 kinds of ideas:
Capture all the ideas by creating one card for each of them.
Note to the facilitator: you can replace this single step by a more sophisticated ideation process.
Selecting ideas after an ideation session can be really dangerous because the risk of loosing the most creative ideas and get back to "safe" ideas is really high.
This is why, we are going to use the COCD Box methodology, a methodology developed by the Center for Development of Creative Thinking that enables to select 3 kinds of ideas:
Ready? Move to the next step!
Note to the facilitator: in this template we give 30 points (10 per idea type) to the participants. You should customize that number based on the number of ideas and of participants.
Blue ideas are:
Please select your 10 blue ideas by giving one point to each of them.
Drag'n drop the Ideas with the most points into the Blue Idea zone.
Red ideas are:
Please select your 10 red ideas by giving one point to each of them.
Drag'n drop the Ideas with the most points into the Red Idea zone.
Yellow ideas are:
Please select your 10 yellow ideas by giving one point to each of them.
Drag'n drop the Ideas with the most points into the Yellow Idea zone.
Have a look at the final selection.
Discuss and capture that discussion into the cards comments.
Note to the facilitator: this is the end of the selection process, you can now use any methodology to explore and develop the selected ideas.