Anti- Solution Brainstorming in an unusual way
Problem Solving Technique Prepared by Sachin Kale – 24
Anti-Solution •
Anti solution is also like brainstorming technique but is conducted in an unusual manner.
• This technique tries to get team to think oppositely to what you want to achieve and to push the
boundaries of that thinking so that people see things differently.
Anti-Solution •
It is similar to a devils advocate approach and an approach of the evil twin.
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In this way the team sees the opposite of what is trying to be achieved and in many ways enhances the teams
view of the actual solution that is trying to be achieved.
Anti-Solution The steps to start Anti-Solution technique are : 1. Take your actual objective and determine the exact opposite. 2. Brainstorm how to achieve this opposite objective. 3. Look at all the ideas generated on how to achieve the
opposite objective and then examine each of these in the context of what it means for your actual objective.
Anti-Solution 4) From this analysis look to what the negative objective suggests for a positive contribution to the actual solution you want to achieve.
5) Record all these ideas and transfer them to the positive
section of the plan being developed for the actual objective.
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