Ideate

Welcome to stage three. This is where we get creative and come up with lots of new ideas.

This is going to be your favourite step in the process if you’re an ideas person. It's all about thinking creatively, taking inspiration from lots of sources and creating something new.

Watch the video to hear more about the principles behind great idea generation and the kind of tools you can find in this section.

Golden Questions

Tools and Templates

1 - Ideation Tips

Guidance on planning your workshop

2a - Individual brilliance

Early idea generation

2b - Brainstorm Cards

Early idea generation exercise

2c - Quickfire Eights

Early idea generation exercise

2d - Fundraising Model Cards

Early ideation, building ideas

2e - Beg, borrow, steal (early ideation and refinement tool)

Early idea generation activity

2f - Combine and build

Early to mid ideation, expanding idea pool

2g - World Cafe

Early ideation, taps into the collective group wisdom

2h - What if

Early idea generation exercise

3a - Build it Break it Fix it

Later ideation exercise

3b - SCAMPER

Later ideation exercise, stretching your initial ideas

3c - Six Thinking Hats

Later ideation exercise, stretching your initial ideas

4 - Idea Evaluator/ Prioritisation matrix

Choosing which ideas to progress

Between ideation steps - Writing Propositions

Recording initial ideas, and documenting refined ideas