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Applying the 21 Synectics Steps

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The need for thinking and problem-solving skills dominates our lives. Individuals must analyze problems in the workplace, at school, as a parent, and in many other daily situations. You have an opportunity to practice your problem-solving skills through this assignment.

Assignment: Select one problem from the following list or define your own problem.

  • Design a new textbook for a psychology class, science class, etc.
  • Invent a new telephone.
  • Design a new suitcase.
  • Design new clothes for soldier/teacher/cook/student/ etc.
  • Invent a new style for a video game.
  • Create a short story.
  • Design a new computer.
  • Invent a new way to protect computers from viruses.
  • Create a new type of credit card.
  • Work on solving a problem of your own choosing - a problem that is related to your major field of study.

Remember that you don’t need to create anything physically. You may use images or just descriptions of your ideas. What is important for this assignment is your ability to generate ideas.

  • Number your ideas 1 through 21.
  • Generate 21 ideas about solving it, using the 21 Synectics steps linked here.

Note: The 21 Synectics steps were developed by SynecticsWorld, inc.

Invention Labs & Workshops | Synecticsworld. (n.d.). Synecticsworld. Retrieved May 23, 2012, from http://synecticsworld.com/invention-labs-workshops...

Your completed assignment should be written primarily in first person and should be 500-750 words in length. If you use sources in your writing, be sure to identify them. If you use any direct language from a source, be sure to place those words in quotation marks.

Your assignment should adhere to the stated page length requirement for the week and use APA style formatting including a title page and reference section. You should use Times New Roman, 12pt. font, double-spaced lines, and one inch margins. A description of APA style and the APA template can be found in the Writing Center.

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Running Head: 21 SYNECTIC STEPS HU260 Week 5 Assignment: Applying the 21 Synectic Steps Click Here to Type Your Name… Grantham University 21 SYNECTIC STEPS 1 Applying the 21 Synectic Steps Directions: After reading this week’s materials, answer the following prompts in your own words. Click directly in the highlighted fields to type your answers. Write in first person, be creative, and explain your reasoning. You are using the 21 Synectic steps to trigger ideas about your problem or invention. Include images if they help. Don't fall prey to your preconceived ideas about your problem. You should not know how this solution turns out before you begin. By the time you get to the end, you should have some pretty amazing (outside the box) ideas. Things can fly, become invisible, or even travel through space and time. These crazy ideas are how many corporations develop innovative solutions. You may write this in a paragraph form or simply answer the questions below. Your work should be 500 -750 words. Please delete these directions before turning in your work. What problem or invention have you chosen to work on and why? Click here to type your answer…. 1. Subtract – What can you omit or take away from it? Click here to type your answer…. 2. Repeat – How can you echo, restate or duplicate it? Click here to type your answer…. 3. Combine – What else can you connect to it? Click here to type your answer…. 4. Add – How can you expand or augment it? Click here to type your answer…. 5. Transfer – How can it be relocated or dislocated? Click here to type your answer…. 6. Animate – How can you mobilize it? Click here to type your answer…. 7. Empathize – How can you or others relate to it? 21 SYNECTIC STEPS Click here to type your answer…. 8. Superimpose – How can you overlap or overlay to create a new it? Click here to type your answer…. 9. Substitute – What could you switch in or with it? Click here to type your answer…. 10. Change Scale – How can you change the size? Click here to type your answer…. 11. Fragment – How can you break or split it up? Click here to type your answer…. 12. Isolate – How can you crop or focus it? Click here to type your answer…. 13. Distort – How can you misshape it? Click here to type your answer…. 14. Contradict – How can you use reversal to change it? Click here to type your answer…. 15. Disguise – How can you hide or mask it into another frame of reference? Click here to type your answer…. 16. Parody – How can you make fun of it? i.e. comic, joke, irony Click here to type your answer…. 17. Prevaricate – How can you present this to be interpreted as something else? Click here to type your answer…. 18. Metamorphose – How can you change it? i.e., color, size, foundation Click here to type your answer…. 2 21 SYNECTIC STEPS 19. Hybridize – What would you get if you crossed this with that? Click here to type your answer…. 20. Mythologize – How can you transform this into an iconic figure? Click here to type your answer…. 21. Fantasize – How outlandish can this be? The sky’s the limit! Click here to type your answer…. 3 21 SYNECTIC STEPS 4 References Invention Labs & Workshops | Synecticsworld. (n.d.). Synecticsworld. Retrieved from http://synecticsworld.com/invention-labs-workshops/
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Applying the 21 Synectics Steps: Creating a Short Story

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APPLYING THE 21 SYNECTICS STEPS

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The world has greatly enhanced new and better methods of doing things. Problemsolving is real and organizations and individuals ought to equip themselves with sophisticated
tools that will enable them to come up with sound decisions. Synectics is a Greek word implying
fitting together of various elements. It is an approach towards creating problem-solving; facilitate
information storage, and maintaining high standards in information systems (Poison & Jeffries,
2014).
Story writing has many challenges. In this paper, the 21 steps have been outlined in
solving the problems in creating a short story.
1. Subtraction
At the first step, the author has to identify some of the things t...


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