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Welcome to our online training program
The goal is to teach you how to develop creative solutions to problems using your existing resources.
Lesson from Ukraine: the ability to come up with creative ways of using new & old technologies like Drones has had a differentiated impact in the field.
We want to prepare you for this future so that you can come up with creative solutions to problems in peacetime and wartime.
What you will learn
You will learn 4 processes on:
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Creative problem-solving: You will learn how to develop creative solutions to problems using your existing resources.
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Validating ideas: You will learn how to validate that an idea is worth pitching.
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Pitching ideas: You will learn how to best pitch ideas within the Army to maximise the likelihood of getting support.
The training is taught via tiny readings and videos that you can do on your phone. Readings on average take no more than 5 minutes to review and use, videos are 30 seconds on average.
The idea of the course is that you can pick and choose which techniques you want to use and dismiss those you don’t.
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Course Curriculum
- Generating novel ideas section overview
- Creative problem-solving process
- Technique: Subtract
- Exercise: Subtract (Laptop)
- Video: Subtract technique (0:43)
- Technique: Task Unification
- Exercise: Task Unification (Smartphone)
- Video: Task unification technique (0:43)
- Technique: Multiplication
- Exercise: Multiplication (Kettle)
- Exercise: Task Unification (Glasses)
- Exercise: Subtract (sunglasses)
- Technique: Division
- Exercise: Division (Pot)
- Video: Lotus blossom to improve the car (0:40)
- Exercise: Multiplication (water bottle)
- Exercise: Task Unification (Laptop)
- Exercise: Division (Sunglasses)
- Video: Lotus blossom to solve a problem (1:16)
- Exercise: Subtract (desk lamp)
- Ukraine AI Case Study
- Exercise: Multiplication (alarm clock)
- Exercise: Division (Water bottle)
- 30 Second Survey