What is this for?
Always having trouble making group decisions concerning the selection of ideas? The “idea shopping cart template” helps you:
- To ensure a sufficient variety of ideas.
- To facilitate all participants’ individual selection processes.
Step-by-step guide.
Step 1
Download this PDF and print it on an A3 sheet of paper. You can also draw the diagram on a sheet of paper if you can’t print.
Step 2
Tell everyone to walk around the room (all posters with ideas should be hanging on the walls), read through the ideas and indicate the ones they like with dot-votes.
Pro-tip: Encourage discussions but avoid that people spend 10 minutes discussing 1 idea.
Step 3
Hand out the idea shopping card. Explain that everyone should fill in the top half of the template by selecting and copying (not taking them off the wall) 6 ideas:
- An original idea
- An idea for in 5-10 years
- An implement now idea
- An idea addressing a new market
- An idea about a new offering
- An idea you just really like
Pro-tip: Change the 6 criteria based upon your goals.
Step 4
Ask people to sit down and turn their 6 ideas into a top 3.
Pro-tip: Explain that they don’t have to copy ideas literally they can build upon existing ideas and tweak them.
Idea shopping cart
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