At some point, it's time to release that idea into the world, good or bad, successful or unsuccessful. After all, what's the use of an idea if it isn't going to be executed? Why would you open a murder investigation if your goal isn't to put the criminal ...

What happens when your search for the great idea leads to a dead end?  Sometimes you'll get stuck trying to think up a solution to a problem.  That's when you have to walk away from the problem for a while. If you've been reading the previous posts about creating ideas, you'll ...

Continuing the analogy of finding ideas to a murder mystery, I've already discussed the steps of defining the problem and getting the facts. The next step to getting great ideas is to simply gather as many ideas as you can. In our murder mystery, we would round up ...

In the Great Idea Murder Mystery, we're tracking steps that one would go through to create ideas and turn them into reality. The first part of the mystery involved defining the problem. This, the second part, will cover getting the facts. In a murder mystery, once you have found ...

I like to equate coming up with ideas with a great whodunit mystery. The idea is the "suspect", the successful idea is the "solved murder", and the problem the idea solves is the "victim". Obviously, there are no suspects to a murder without a victim. If no ...