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Introduction to Creator Studio
Getting a Fast Start with Creator Studio
The fast way to get started with Creator Studio is to take a few minutes to be introduced to its features and use. Then you will be much better prepared to enjoy the benefits of successful Creator Studio creative thinking sessions. At the end of the introduction you will be provided with a link where you can Try or Buy Creator Studio.
Overview of Creator Studio
Creator Studio™ software stimulates creative thinking on demand, radically transforming how individuals, businesses and organizations can quickly bring to bear the power of new thinking, new ideas and innovations to achieve the most challenging goals. The automated creativity tools of Creator Studio employ powerful creative thinking methods based on modern scientific discoveries into the creative thinking processes of the human mind. Creator Studio lets users apply these creative thinking tools systematically and deliberately, on demand, creating new ideas, new solutions and innovations.
Creative thinking, creative problem solving and innovation can be very challenging, time consuming and require a great deal of effort. Creator Studio software provides tools that reduce your workload and help you be more organized, efficient and productive at creating new ideas, new solutions and innovations. Creator Studio can also serve as a foundation and catalyst for building and growing a creative thinking culture throughout a company or organization.
Creator Studio is effective for individuals, small businesses, large corporations and organizations, and it may be applied to any goals, such as: Increase business growth; Develop marketing strategies; Develop sales strategies; Develop fund raising campaigns; Out think the competition; Build a creative thinking culture; Launch a continuous improvement program; Create new products and services; Improve existing products and services; Rapidly respond to dynamic business demands; Develop new business strategies; Reinvent businesses; Create innovative solutions to difficult problems; Create ideas, solve problems and innovate at the leading edge of what's possible; Plus a lot more.
Creativity Studios of Creator Studio
Creator Studio offers a variety of Creativity Studios. Each Studio is specialized for achieving a specific type of creative thinking task and composed of a select group of Creativity Tools. Creator Studio Includes the following Studios:
Achievement Studio
The Achievement Studio is used when there is a specific goal to be reached.
Block Buster Studio
The Block Buster Studio may be used to get creative thinking started when it seems to be blocked or impossible.
Blue Sky Studio
The Blue Sky Studio may be used to get creative thinking started. Or it may be used when there is not a specific goal to work toward.
Design Studio
The Design Studio may be used for a design that requires a creative approach.
Improvement Studio
The Improvement Studio may be used to improve something such as a product, process, service or system.
Invention Studio
The Invention Studio may be used to invent something new such as a product, process, service or system.
Opportunity Studio
The Opportunity Studio may be used to take advantage of a new opportunity or proposal that has been made available to you.
Problem Studio
The Problem Studio may be used to solve a problem that requires a creative solution.
Project Studio
The Project Studio may be used to employ creative thinking to find a better method for completing a project.
Task Studio
The Task Studio may be used to complete a task that requires a creative method.
Creativity Tools of Creator Studio
Creator Studio provides powerful, automated Creativity Tools that are specially designed to stimulate thinking and provoke ideas. The Creativity Studios include the following Creativity Tools and Components:
The Focus
The Focus is the subject of the creative effort. The Focus states the purpose or goal of the thinking.
Challenge Tool
The Challenge Tool uses the creative challenge to seek alternatives to the existing way of doing something.
Concept Tool
The Concept Tool is used to discover concepts, where put into action by the right ideas, may successfully achieve the goal stated in the Focus.
Concept Fan Tool
The Concept Fan Tool is used to reflect on the normal approach or method of doing something and to discover alternative concepts that may lead to doing the same thing in another way.
Escape Tool
The Escape Tool is used to escape from the traditional methods of doing something.
Random Word Tool
The Random Word Tool may be used to get thinking started in order to start a creativity session, to remove a thinking block when one is having difficulty thinking of any ideas and to create ideas from a fresh perspective.
Stepping Stone Tool
The Stepping Stone Tool is used to create radically new concepts and new approaches.
Sorting Tool
The Sorting Tool is used in making a preliminary evaluation of the ideas created during the creativity session and to provide some order to them.
Session Ideas List
The Session Ideas List is an integrated text editor used at the end of a creativity session to display and edit the ideas that were created during the session.
Focus Writing for Creator Studio
As previously discussed, the Focus is the subject of the creative effort. The Focus states the purpose or goal of the thinking. Below are some examples of how to write the Focus for a Creator Studio session. Please modify and expand on these examples as needed for use in your Creator Studio sessions:
Achievement Studio
How can we achieve our _ _ _ _ _ fund raising goal?
What can be done to achieve major market share with our _ _ _ _ _ product?
Block Buster Studio
Where do we begin with this challenge?
How can our employees be motivated to participate in the _ _ _ _ _ program?
Blue Sky Studio
What are some great ideas for new _ _ _ _ _ products?
Think of ideas for a new clothing line for _ _ _ _ _.
Design Studio
For design of the _ _ _ _ _ what are some good ideas for taking advantage of the natural lighting available?
How can the _ _ _ _ _ be designed to make optimum use of the space available?
How can we redesign our _ _ _ _ _ to utilize renewable energy resources and remain cost effective with competing alternatives?
Improvement Studio
How can our customer service be improved?
What can be done to improve our _ _ _ _ _ ?
How can the _ _ _ _ _ be improved?
Invention Studio
Invent a new way to _ _ _ _ _ .
Invent a new way to solve the problem of _ _ _ _ _ .
Invent a new way to make _ _ _ _ _ easier.
Opportunity Studio
How can we take advantage of the new opportunity offered to us today?
How can we help our customers benefit from the recently approved _ _ _ _ _ regulations?
Problem Studio
What can be done to solve the _ _ _ _ _ problem?
How can the _ _ _ _ _ problem be corrected?
How can we eliminate our _ _ _ _ _ bottle neck?
Project Studio
How can we complete the _ _ _ _ _ project ahead of schedule?
What can be done to stay within budget on the _ _ _ _ _ project?
Task Studio
How can I finish the _ _ _ _ _ task this week?
What would be a great slogan for our _ _ _ _ _ program?
Think of new ideas for promoting the _ _ _ _ _ campaign this year.
Using Creator Studio
Individual Use
To begin a creativity session, simply select one of the specialized Creativity Studios and type in the situation you want to focus your creative thinking on. Creator Studio will guide you through your creativity session step by step, as you interact with the Creativity Tools, creating new ideas, solving problems and innovating to achieve your desired goal.
At the end of the session, your ideas will be displayed in Creator Studio's integrated text editor for your review and editing. You can save your work on your computer's hard drive or server, share a printed copy in meetings and use your favorite email application to send a copy to your coworkers.
Team Use
A team can use Creator Studio to combine and enhance their efforts to create new ideas, innovate and solve problems for the projects they work on using the following method:
· Hold a meeting (local, teleconference or virtual conference) where the team leader and or the team members decide on the creative thinking tasks for the team to focus on.
· Select one or more creative thinking task to assign to each team member or assign all of the tasks to the entire team.
· After the meeting each team member can do one or more Creator Studio sessions on each of the creative thinking tasks they were assigned.
· Schedule an idea review meeting where the results of the team's Creator Studio sessions will be discussed.
· Team members may also use Creator Studio when dealing with other challenging creative thinking issues that arise in the course of their daily work.
· At the scheduled idea review meeting the team members can share the results of their individual Creator Studio sessions.
· The team can discuss the ideas and decide which ideas are ready to put into action in their current form, which ideas need further development, how to develop the ideas further and how to put the ideas into practice.
· If desired the team can hold a traditional brainstorming session on some or all of the ideas from the individual Creator Studio sessions to create even more ideas.
· Repeat the evaluation and implementation process for the new ideas from the brainstorming session.
· Any new creative thinking tasks that are identified during the meeting may be assigned to individual team members or to the entire team to do Creator Studio sessions on, with the results of these new sessions to be shared at the next meeting.
· As the meeting progresses an action plan should be developed with tasks and goals assigned to the team members.
Obtaining The Best Results with Creator Studio
For obtaining the best results with Creator Studio, we recommend a thorough review of the help files before starting your first creativity session. This will allow you to become familiar with the creative thinking methods employed by Creator Studio and how the creativity tools and other components operate. You can access the help files by clicking Help on the menu bar, then click Help Topics, then select Menus, Studios or Components. You can also access the help files at any time during a creativity session by pressing the F1 key on your keyboard. Also to make the best use of Creator Studio and its Provocative thinking methods a person needs a positive open minded attitude toward creative thinking. An attitude that applies the following convictions.
When doing creative thinking I will:
· Postpone evaluating and passing judgment on my ideas until a later time.
· Create ideas and record them, whatever they may be.
· Recognize my ideas as possible solutions or stepping stones to possible solutions.
· Recognize that any solution I think of may be just one among many possible solutions.
· Shift my perspective repeatedly to create new ideas and explore alternative possible solutions.
This positive open minded attitude frees the mind to create ideas and explore ideas without the burden of being practical at the same time. The time for evaluating and judging ideas, and for being practical is after the creative thinking has been done.
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