update: booi innovations creative problem solving with matchsticks
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BOOI Innovations would like to share with you this updated exercise on creative problem solving which is a part of its Creativity & Innovation Awareness seminar. During this seminar most people can create 3 to 5 solutions; you will now receive 20 solutions! Creativity is about eliminating your pattern thinking and self-imposed restrictions. But it is also about identifying knowledge gaps you have as “you do not know what you do not know!” Have a look & share! Do you want to know more: Feel free to contact BOOI Innovations @ www.booi-innovations.comTRANSCRIPT
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How to look differently to a single problem
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About BOOI Innovations
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About creativity
• [Creativity is the] ability to produce something new through imaginative skill, whether a new solution to a problem, a new method or device, or a new artistic object or form. The term generally refers to a richness of ideas and originality of thinking.
Adapted from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creativity
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“discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else
and thinking something different”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 1893-1996Nobel prize winner
Physician
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“nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one we
have”
Emile Chartier, 1868-1951French Philosopher
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“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away”
Linus Pauling 1901-1994Two time Nobel prize winner
Theoretical chemist and biologist
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“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”
Albert Einstein 1879-1955Nobel prize winner
Physicist
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Matchstick problem
• The following slides will show 20 solutions to this matchstick problem
• The only rule: Make a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
• This is an exercise from our Creativity & Innovation Awareness seminar
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STOP: First try yourself!
• It is always easier to take a quick peek on what others already have done
• Remember that innovation is a continuous process, not a one-time goal or a single destination
• The more you do it the better you get at it.• Do not worry about failing; if you fail that
means you are learning (FAIL is actually the acronym for: First Attempt In Learning)
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 1: The negative number solution
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 2: The Roman number solution
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 3: The break-a-match solution (match needs to be broken!)
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 4: The second Roman number solution (match needs to be broken!)
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 5: The unequal solution
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 6: The 'bigger then' solution
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 7: The positive or same-symbol-has-different-meaning solution
ANDor
PLUS
POSITIVEor
BIGGER THAN ZERO
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Solution 8: The vector solution (match needs to be broken in 4 pieces!); Imagination required for the commas.
, , ,X YX Y X Y X 1
Y
1
-1
-1
Make a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
11( ) 1
2( )- = 0-1( )
11( ) 2
1( )- -10( )= Is also possible!
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Solution 9: Decimal solution (match needs to be broken in 3 pieces!)
Make a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
11 - 11,1 = - 0,1
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Solution 10: The alphabet solution (match needs to be broken in 2 pieces!)
Make a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
14 - 13 = 1
n = 14th letter of the alphabetm =13th letter of the alphabet
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 11: The binary / decimal solution (match needs to be broken 3 pieces!)
0 0 = 00 1 = 11 0 = 21 1 = 3
3 + 3 = 6
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 12: The binary / alphabet solution (match needs to be broken 2 pieces!)
0 0 = 00 1 = 11 0 = 21 1 = 3
3 + 3 = F
F is 6th letter of the alphabet
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 13: Correct for a binary based solution
This statement is false for Roman numericals and for the decimal, hexadecimal and octalsystems. However, for the binary system this 'unequal' statement is true!
3 ≠ 7 - 10 0 0 = 00 0 1 = 10 1 0 = 20 1 1 = 3
1 0 0 = 41 0 1 = 51 1 0 = 61 1 1 = 7
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 14: The superpose solution: Note that the match heads up means the opposite of match heads down!
Examples of this calculation method:0or
nothing
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Solution 15: The second superpose solution: Note that the match heads up means the opposite of match heads down!
Examples of this calculation method:0or
nothing
0or
nothing
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Solution 16: Another alphabet solution (match needs to be broken 3 pieces!)
2 + 2 = d
d= 4th letter of the alphabet
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Solution 17: A multiplication solution (match needs to be broken 4 pieces!) Match head becomes multiplication point!
2 + 1 x 1 = 3
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 18: An other multiplication solution (match needs to be broken 4 pieces!) Match head becomes multiplication point!
1 + 1 x 2 = 3
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More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!
Solution 19: A division solution (match needs to be broken 3 pieces!)
2 / 3 ≠ 1
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Solution 20: A division solution (match needs to be broken 3 pieces!)
2 / 3 = Positive
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Additional info• During our Creativity & Innovation Awareness seminar
most people can create 3 to 5 solutions. This because they are stuck in their own pattern thinking and adhere to assumptions and rules they impose upon themselves without any reason
• Creativity is all about eliminating your own pattern thinking and self-imposed restrictions. But it is also about realizing knowledge gaps you have as: “you do not know what you do not know!”
• There are even more solutions!
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Additional info• If you really have been paying attention to the provided
solutions you probably have recognized that there is a systematic structure behind the created solutions.
• Have you been able to recognize it?
• Generating new, more & better ideas for your business development efforts requires the same systematic approach
• One of BOOI Innovations' services is to support you in this specific area of idea creation
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free to contact us. Ron [email protected]+358 (0)50 501 63 29