Question
Describe the ways to generate ideas.
OR
Describe the various structured approaches adopted to generate ideas.

OR
Explain any four main sources of ideas.

Answer

The different structured approaches adopted to generate ideas are:
  1. Environment Scanning: It means the screening of a large amounts of information to detect emerging changes or trends. Information is scanned from news magazines, reviews, government and consumer publications, trade publications, commercials, etc. Lot of effort is put in but in the end it is energy well spent.
  2. Creativity and Creative Problem Solving: Creativity is the ability to combine ideas in a unique way or to make unusual associations between the ideas. It involves cross thinking by seeing new angles, connections and approaches. The role of creativity and creative problem solving for generating ideas is that a number of specific creative approaches can be used. For example attribute listing, free association, etc.
  3. Brainstorming: Here a group of persons sit together and generate a number of business ideas by innovating alternative ways of meeting the needs and solving problems. A number of ideas are discussed and finally a concrete idea is the end result.
  4. Focus Groups: In this way if generating idea the groups of individuals provide information about proposed commodity (good or service) in a structured setting. Here a moderator focuses the group discussion or issues are being examined. Such group car ide an excellent way to generate new ideas and to screen proposed ideas and concepts.
  5. Market Research: This is a method of gathering information about products/ services that already exist in the market. Demand supply position for a particular product or service is studied in the market and based on it new ideas for products and services are obtained.

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