Thinkertoys - The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers

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Thinkertoys - The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers
Circular No.: 06-0421
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27 and 28 June 2006
Every big business begins
with a brilliant idea
practical, proven and
powerful idea-generating tools taught to
managers and executives at…
AT&T, Avery Dennison, DuPont, Exxon, Ford
Motor Company, General Electric, General
Motors, Gillette, GlaxoSmithKline, Hallmark,
Kellogg’s, Kodak, Liz Claiborne, Microsoft,
USA Today, Wal-Mart and Xerox
The Guru
LMIacademy
Innovative Learning Solutions
Michael Michalko is one of the most highly acclaimed creativity experts in the world and author of the best sellers Thinkertoys
(A Handbook of Business Creativity), ThinkPak (A Brainstorming Card Deck), and Cracking Creativity
(The Secrets Of Creative Genius).
As an officer in the U.S. Army, Michael organized a team of NATO intelligence specialists and international academics in Frankfurt, Germany, to research, collect, and categorize all known inventive-thinking methods. His team applied the methods to
various NATO military, political, and social problems and produced a variety of breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to
new and old problems. After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques.
Michael later applied these creative-thinking techniques to problems in the corporate world with outstanding successes.
Thinkertoys will change
the way you think
Wall Street Journal
Objectives
To develop one’s ability to develop innovative
products and services in the banking industry
Target Audience
Executives and senior management in the banking
and financial industry
Program Outline
Speaker
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
· Find ideas by reversing conventional assumptions
· Get new ideas by examining the attributes of a problem
· Map your thoughts to spark new ideas and see new
relationship
· Manipulate what exists into something totally different
· Graph a challenge’s positive and negative forces and
then maximize the positives and minimize the
negatives
· Identify and box the parameters of a challenge to
quickly produce thousands of new ideas
· Find new ideas and creative strategies using a grid /
matrix to organize complex masses of information
· Diagram obstacles and then use them to reach
your goal
· Use a checklist of problem-solving questions to
produce new ideas
· Create a key-word index and mix and match the key
words in a matrix to produce new ideas
· Force a connection between two dissimilar concepts to
create a new idea
· Produce ideas and insights by creating a relationship
between your challenge and the words and thoughts of
the world’s great thinkers
· Generate ideas by forcing a connection between
common attributes and your challenge
Mr Kelvin Fung, Executive
Director, LMI Academy. He has personally
trained and coached more than 10,000
supervisors and managers in the
Asia Pacific region. Mr Fung is
Asia’s first Thinkertoys Master
Trainer.
Program Details
Language
Date
Time
Duration
Venue
Closing date for
application
Enquiry
Cantonese (supplemented with English material)
27-28 June 2006
9:30am - 5:00pm
2 days
3/F Guangdong Investment Tower,
148 Connaught Road Central, H.K.
(Sheung Wan MTR Station Exit C)
1 week before course commences
Ms Emily Wong at 2153 7879
Ms Joanne Lee at 2153 7890
Fee
Member
Non-member
Early Bird*
Regular
HKD$ 2,800
HKD$ 4,000
HKD$ 4,000
HKD$ 4,500
* Registration on or before 1 June 2006
Registration Form
(as on I.D. Card)
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Membership no.:
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Terms and Conditions
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All fees paid are non-refundable.
Participants who have settled payments will receive course confirmation by e-mail 7 days prior to the course date.
In case of over-subscription, priority will be given to those who have settled the course fees.
We reserve the right to cancel, modify and/or postpone the course.
All courses will be held as scheduled if Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above/Black Rainstorm Warning is lowered 3 hours before the course's start time.
Address : 3/F Guangdong Investment Tower, 148 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong
Tel : 2815 1552
Fax : 2544 9946
Email : hkib@hkib.org
Web-site : www.hkib.org
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