Introduction

• General
  • Introduction
  • Definition

Topics

• Resources
• General

• Techniques
  • The bigger view
  • Change your character
  • Challenge current thinking
  • Confine the problem
  • Change the scene
  • Combining known ideas
  • Reverse thinking
  • Circumvent the issue
  • Lateral thinking
  • Logical approach
  • Aim for less
  • Multiple tools

• General principles
• Personnel and the meeting
• Prepare properly
• The meeting process
• The brainstorm process
• Simple example
• Managing the meeting process
• Assessing ideas
• Implementing ideas

A great deal of problems / issues require the management of resources to solve them.
They are the personnel required to consider ideas for possible solutions as well as the funds and equipment to implement and maintain it.
Many industries manage resources in order to achieve the company goals.

These can be divided into key areas.

Capital

• A company can alter the amount of money it has to run the business.
• It can raise additional funds in a variety of ways if necessary.
• Money can be managed.

Physical

Buildings, machinery, land and other equipment can be purchased or sold as required.

Human resources

People can be recruited, trained, moved between positions, promoted and motivated.

Information

Information is now available from a multitude of sources and can be presented in many formats.
It can be obtained with greater ease to support any potential solutions.

Time

Time is the one resource that we can not manipulate to gain more of it.
Excepting of course the simple example of sleeping less; and the less likely event of travelling to somewhere at near the speed of light to slow down time. The latter has the poor side effect of increasing your mass quite a bit.