Cherry Split
Group facilitation methods: Analysis, Idea Generating
Identification
Cherry Split is an attribute listing type of techneque which takes an existing product or system, breaks it into parts, identifies various ways of achieving each part, and then recombines these to identify new forms of the product or system.
1. State the challenge - in two words
2. Split the challenge into two separate attributes
3. Split each attribute into two further attributes
4. continue splitting each attribute into 2 more attributes, until you have enough to work with.
5. look at each attribute at a time and try thinking of ways to change or improve it.
6. re-assemble the attributes
Howto
1. State the challenge - in two words
2. Split the challenge into two separate attributes
3. Split each attribute into two further attributes
4. continue splitting each attribute into 2 more attributes, until you have enough to work with.
5. look at each attribute at a time and try thinking of ways to change or improve it.
6. re-assemble the attributes
Background
Cherry Split is an attribute listing type of techneque developed in the early 1930's.
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