This article explores a creativity technique known as the kipper tie. A prime example is when you are given a short notice to deliver a presentation on your recent project or activity that you have been involved in. In this case, you can use a creative tool to prepare yourself quickly.
Sometimes you may find a need to quickly brainstorm an idea. However, you may not have enough time to thoroughly addresses it and use all the creativity tools at your disposal. A prime example is when you are given a short notice to deliver a presentation on your recent project or activity that you have been involved in. In this case, you can use a creative tool to prepare yourself quickly. This article explores a creativity technique known as the kipper tie.
The kipper tie technique is a mixture of convergent and divergent thinking that allows you to explore topics in different directions. It is also useful for decision making and creative thinking. The following are the steps you need to go through to apply the kipper tie technique:
1. Identify your main goal or problem. You need to know what you want to achieve, the message you want to deliver or the problem you want to solve before you can take steps to do it.
2. Brainstorm all angles. Now explore all areas around the topic. Your intention is to maximise your search within the available time. Use appropriate creativity tools as necessary.
3. Filter down to one or a few specific topics. Brainstorming produces lots of ideas. In this step, you need to filter out those that are irrelevant and choose a few promising approaches that have good potential as use them final candidates.
4. Brainstorm specific topics. Now that you have identified these topics, expand on them specifically by brainstorming on them as much as you can.
As you can see this method first encourages you to expand on topics, then focuses on specific topics and then expands on those specific topics again. This suggests why it is called a kipper tie as the shape of your search is similar to the outline of a kipper tie.
Use in Search
You can use this technique for creative search as well.
1. Type in your key search phrases into a search engine.
2. Open appropriate links based on this search, but don’t read them yet.
3. Explore various alternative key search phrases. You can use automatic suggestions based on your own phrase or simply think of new search phrases.
4. Open the links for these search phrases as well.
5. Now explore all the links you have opened. Get rid of those that are not interesting and keep those that have potential. Try to reduce your choices to a few options that are most promising.
6. Now compile new search phrases based on these options to search specifically for more links.
7. As before, open the links for these new phrases and when they are all open, carry on with your research to explore them further.
This technique is extremely efficient when carrying out research. It naturally stops you to get carried away by the first few articles you come across and allows you to systematically explore the areas under consideration.
Software Tools
The kipper tie technique is so powerful that recently Microsoft Research released a new product that allows you to apply this technique to sets of data. Microsoft Pivot lets you to explore datasets by zooming in on specific field queries and then zoom back to explore horizontally based on what you have found. You can repeat this zooming in and zooming out process to better understand the data, its anomalies and features much like the kipper tie.
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