A good way to develop your creative thinking is to ask "what is the concept behind that idea/approach" and then see how you could do it.

I couldn't help think about the thinking or concept behind the name of Microsoft's search engine 'Bing'

Bing is a Short Sharp 'Ping' sound of only one sylable which is the antithesis of Google - which has long 'ooo' sound, rich and two sylables

Say them out loud - you couldn't get more different sounds.

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A good way to develop your creative thinking is to ask "what is the concept behind that idea/approach" and then see how you else could do it.

I couldn't help think about the thinking or concept behind the name of Microsoft's search engine 'Bing'

Bing is a Short Sharp 'Ping' sound of only one sylable which is the antithesis of Google - which has long 'ooo' sound, rich and two sylables

Say them out loud - you couldn't get more different sounds.

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Four Essential Elements of creativity

Creativity is something that you can turn on at will – just like a light switch.

All you need are the four essential elements of Creativity - Focus, People, Tools and Time

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Alan Black has agreed to be a guest blogger on the creativity group - Read his post on the history of S.C.A.M.P.E.R

Robert F. Eberle was an educational administrator in Edwardsville, IL. He wrote about creativity for

children and teachers. His most famous creative thinking resource book for creativity instructors is

SCAMPER, which is still widely used and available.

A Leader at CPSI for over 30 years Bob was influential in the integration of creativity principles to Read more