20 May 2010, Posted by Cris Buckley in Create a Blueprint, 5 Comments. Tagged creative thinking, entrepreneur, ideas, starting your own business

How to Make Your Best Ideas Better

Photo by Willie Lunchmeat

As we’re working to create a business blueprint, we’ll take our best ideas from brainstorming a business idea and develop them to make them better.

First, we’ll narrow down our ideas to just a handful that we think are the best…the ones that excite us most.

If some of them can be combined to form a single idea, do that.

Now we’ll use the PPCO tool to develop them and improve them!

Positives
Potentials
Concerns
Overcoming concerns

For each of your best ideas, make a list of what the positives, potentials and concerns are for you.

For concerns, write them starting with a sentence that begins, “In what ways might I…?” That way, you’re framing your concerns in a positive way into solvable problems. Include worries and fears.

Then, for each concern, make a list of how you could overcome that concern!

Note: I’m drawing from the Creative Problem Solving process laid out by Gregg Fraley in his book, Jack’s Notebook.

This is the ninth post in the Create a Blueprint For Your Business series.

Next: Putting Your Ideas Into ACTION!

Are you feeling more confident? Excited to start taking action? Let me hear what you’re thinking!

Related posts:

1. Mixing in Creative Thinking
2. Laying the Groundwork for Your Business Idea
3. New Angles on Your Business Idea
4. 6 Steps to Brainstorming a Business Idea
5. Create a Blueprint for Your Business