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Innovation Workout Real-time Brainstorming
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Purpose To let groups experience some of the problems when brainstorming needs to address complex and sophisticated problems that are changing in real time. Groups have difficulty analyzing problems in four ways: Difficulty managing conflicts over processes and methods Impatience with delays, because the decision making is real time Difficulty in finding patters, because of the distractions of dealing with others and their opinions Difficulty in establishing authority and responsibility for decision making, and the tendency to descend into the negative chaos of ‘groupthink’
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The Workout Divide into groups of four to seven In each team, each of the participants marks the backs of their hands with a number from 1 to 7 (if the team has fewer than seven participants, some may have to mark both hands). Lay three pieces of paper in front of each team. Participants stack their hands on one paper in order from "7" on the bottom to "1" on the top. This is the "start" position. Each team is to restack their hands in the exact same order (with "7" on the bottom) using only these moves: a. Move only one hand at a time. b. Move a hand onto another hand (or stack of hands) or onto an empty paper. c. Move only the top hand on a stack. d. Never move a hand on top of a lower numbered hand.
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For example "3" can never be placed on top of "1" or "2." "3" can be placed on top of "4" or "5" or “6" or "7” or and empty paper "5" cannot be placed on top of "1" or "2" or "3" or 4 "5" cannot be pulled out from under any number of hands; it can be moved only when it is on top.
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Debriefing Ask these questions What strategy did you use to be successful? How were differences of opinion about how to move handled in your team? Did you have a leader? How was he or she selected? When someone on your team thought he or she knew the solution or at least the next move, how did he or she behave? How did you respond to that? Did you ever feel like you were backtracking? How did that make you feel? (Frustrated, like we were wasting time, we had messed up, etc.) When do we backtrack to move forward in our organization? What implications does this have for real world group problem solving (and the management of people who have to solve problems)?
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