There's always value in creating the greatest impact from the resources most readily available to us in organizations (which is described with the impressive phrase: physical eolithism).
This is especially true when the people, financial, and other resources we need to get things done aren't what they used to be or that we would want them to be. Talking about this with a client the other day for an upcoming creative thinking and innovation workshop I’m presenting, I blurted out, “It’s all about doing new with less.”
If you feel as if you've wrung everything possible from what's available to you to produce creative and innovative programs, yet you still need to keep going or even do more, what are your creative thinking options for doing new with less?
Doing New with Less - Creative Thinking and Innovative Programs on a Shoestring
Here's a collection of Brainzooming resources to help you in doing new with less through being more strategic, simplifying things, and sprucing up experiences on the cheap:
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Your Current Creative Ideas
- Looking at Your Situation from a Different Creative Perspective
- Transform What You Do Now
- Creative Thinking with Leftover Ideas
- Varying the Audience Experience You Deliver
Coming Up with New Ideas
- Filling Up Your Creative Thinking Team with the Right Players
- Incorporate Some Kid Creativity
- Identifying Emerging Experts
- Reaching Out on Social Networking Platforms to Boost Creative Thinking
- Taking Advantage of Critical Thinkers
- Borrowing Others’ Creative Thinking that Is New to You
- New, Innovative Ideas by Asking, “What’s It Like?”
- Being a Nuisance to Your Enemies
Throwing Away What You’ve Done Before
- Discovering New Benefits You Deliver
- Walking Away from Where You Don’t Provide Value
- Doing Less of What You’re Most Well Known For
- Giving Up on Run of the Mill Creativity
Change Expectations
- Selling Your Creative Ideas More Effectively
- Changing Expectations About Perfection
- Addressing Expectations for Strategic Change
Shifting Roles Around
- Incorporating Crowdsourcing Effectively
- Finding New Potential Partners
- Creating Volunteer Jobs
- Building Stronger Cross-Community Relationships
New Ways to Implement
- Targeting Your Audiences More Effectively
- Making Your Communications More Strategic
- Making Strategic Messages: Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Story-filled (Affiliate Link)
- Constraining Possibilities to Achieve Better Results
- Create a New Name for Your Efforts
- Incorporate More Emotion into Your Events
- Customizing Your Guerrilla Marketing Tactics
- Making Quicker Decisions
Have fun diving into this list of creative thinking resources for improving your programs - even if you have to do it on a shoestring. - Mike Brown
