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Creative and Design Thinking
Led by Y. Bora Kaykayoğlu, the “Creativity & Human-Centeredness” service was delivered with Fırat Üniversitesi TTO through a 2-day “Idea Development with Creative Thinking Methods and Design Thinking Tools” training for young entrepreneurs in the “Tübitak 1512 – Entrepreneurship Phased Support Program,” using technical creative thinking and idea generation methods aligned with strategic objectives.
At a glance
- Project Focus
- Creativity and Product Development · Universities
- Project Lead
- TrainerY. Bora Kaykayoğlu
- Approaches Used
- Facilitation
- What Emerged
- Creative thinking practices tested on teams' own problems · Idea development and evaluation framework
- Sector
- Technopark / TTO
Inside the project
Focus
How can teams generate new product ideas amid routine work?
The Fırat Üniversitesi TTO project focused on addressing a training need through creative thinking practices. Participants worked within their own product and business contexts.
The account of this project was structured around the organization's own definition of its needs.
Creative capacity grows not through workshops but through small practices embedded in daily work.
Scope
We worked with young entrepreneurs in an entrepreneurship support program during a two-day training on technical creative thinking and idea generation aligned with strategic goals. We used creative thinking methods and design thinking tools to develop ideas.
Implementation
HOW WERE CREATIVE TECHNIQUES USED IN THIS PROJECT?
We used creativity techniques not as showmanship but as tools teams tested on their own problems. Each technique was applied to a real product or process problem.
The real resource in product development is not brilliant ideas but the discipline that keeps ideas alive.
The journey we designed
- 01EXPLOREA situation map was developed by considering the organization's real needs, current ways of working and external signals together.
- 02REFRAMEParticipants practiced creative problem solving and application through their own real work problems.
- 03BRING IT INTO THE ORGANIZATIONA follow-through plan was developed with teams to connect the methods learned to daily workflows.
Kaykayoğlu project insight
The most valuable ideas emerge from the closest attention to the most routine problems.
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