After you have rolled the dice, you might think of the following types of ideas:
• Gourmet soup with secret ingredients (2–3–3)
• Soup to eat after exercising (like Gatorade®) (4–5–3)
• Soup cans with pictures of famous mothers (5–1–5)
• Achicken soup can with a Sterno® container built into the bottom (6–5–4)
• Soup cans with prizes inside (1–6–4)
Word Diamond
Background
Hot new ideas shine and sparkle with radiant brilliance. They illuminate their surroundings and blind lesser ideas. Everyone wants a shiny, multifaceted new idea, but you can’t always get what you want. Sometimes you have to settle for a so-so idea.
The Word Diamond technique won’t ensure that all your ideas will sparkle. It will, however, provide you with another systematic approach to idea generation. And it’s a breeze to implement.
This technique originally was developed by VanGundy (1983) as a simple combination procedure using elements of a problem statement. Thus, it is similar to Bi-Wordal [22]. Instead of using alternative word meanings, however, Word Diamond generates ideas by combining words in the problem statement in different ways.
Taken From : Pfeiffer 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity
