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Lateral thinking: 2. Labels are not collectors but signposts. They are not fixed

During lateral thinking labels don’t have to clearly be one thing or another, they can be flexible. The phablet is a reasonable recent example of how existing terms and definitions can constrain on your thinking.
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Lateral thinking: 1. Lateral thinking is about increasing the breadth of options

There’s a lot of mention of lateral thinking without a whole lot of knowledge about the what and the why of it. Very often it seems that it’s just brainstorming. Here’s a short set of some of the fundamentals of lateral thinking. In this one the point really is that lateral thinking doesn’t solve things by itself, but you need both lateral and vertical thinking at different times. And they are very hard to do together because they are quite different mindsets. As I understand it, Lateral thinking is from Edward de Bono.
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Set an anchor

Set an anchor

Pulling along the bottom forces the flukes on the anchor to dig in. I think anchors are quite clever really.
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Express - Test - Cycle

A rapid design approach based on doing the minimum you can to create a testable prototype fast. Testing. Learning. Iterating. Rather than, say, taking longer and trying to design it all right first time.
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T-shaped people

T-shaped people need breadth and depth

Breadth of experience, knowledge and sectors and world-class skills in one discipline. As you can imagine, this would set you up pretty well. IDEO famously seek out t-shaped people
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