Who is in your group?

1
Who is in your group?

• Conor Brennan
• Gary Meredith
• Chong Liu
• Xiao Han
• Liyi Wei

2
What was the topic you were discussing?

• Canceling Christmas

3
How was it in the canteen?

• Slightly more disruptive

4
How was it in the classroom?

• Easier to focus
• More pressure

5
What creativity techniques did you choose?

• PMI
• CAF -gt FIP
• Random words
• CNS -gt Pestle
• Attempted Six Hats for a 5mins

6
For each technique how did you decide to use that
one?

• PMI Decided because short a quick and easy to
  use
• After we created a summary
• CAF Thought might be useful to focus in the
  groups thinking when used with FIP
• Random Words We thought it would offer some new
  ideas, but it didnt use it successfully as

7
For each technique how did you decide to use that
one?

• Six Thinking Hats, we lost focus as its quite
  complicated and didnt lend itself to the short
  amount of time we had left at this point
• CNS (Pestle) Good summary or overview. Focused
  the group. Useful for the type of statement we
  had.

8
Which technique(s) proved most effective?

• PMI was most useful

9
Which technique(s) proved least effective?

• Random words / Key Words

10
What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you
come up with ?

• PMI Positives
• Less Stress
• Save Money
• More Work Days
• Less Shopping Rush
• Shops open more often
• Avoid annoying kids
• Earlier Exams

11
What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you
come up with ?

• PMI Minus
• People wouldnt get together
• No Gifts
• No Santa
• No Sales, No Double Pay
• No Break
• Less Sales, Less money gov receipts

12
What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you
come up with ?

• PMI Interesting
• Santa Retired
• New Years Bigger Better
• Possible replacement Holiday
• Festivals
• Less waste generated from presents

13
What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you
come up with ?

• CAF What would we do instead of Christmas?
• FIPed it
• Family
• Holiday and also Hobbies
• Do some college work
• Volunteer or charity work
• Create your own festival
• Plan your year
• Give yourself a big present
• Protest against Christmas being cancelled

14
What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you
come up with ?

• Random Words From winnie pooh the word was home
• Didnt work because never got beyond
  consolidating those words the few words we did
  get were
• Kitchen
• Family
• Tv
• Party

15
What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you
come up with ?

• Six thinking hats led us to doing a CNS/Pestle

16
What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you
come up with ?
Short Term Medium Term Long Term
P Political parities unpopular Change in Gov People get over it
E Less taxes, less spending Higher unemployment
S Less family Interaction Self-centred Organ donations drop
T Not as many gadgets, gimmicks Products more focused on real problems Less innovation, more deliberate purchases
L Less petty crime
E Less waste Less carbon, pollution Better World
17
What decision did you come to about the topic?

• Didnt have enough time.