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A new approach to ideation based on linkography combined with graph theory

Authors: Abdellatif Dkhil, Houcine Dammak, Marouane Mouatassim, Mickael Gardoni

Published in: International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) | Issue 2/2022

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Creativity is important in today’s fast changing world. Creative idea generation is essential to novel concept development and ultimately innovation. In several studies, it has been shown that the rate of idea generation decreases slowly during ideation session. In some cases, a state of impasse is noted. In the many proposed approaches, the ideas are usually inspired by the use of external resources to help ideators teams during the impasse state. The main objective of this paper is to improve and stimulate the ideas generation during ideation session by using previous proposed ideas in order to create new ones. To achieve this goal, we propose an approach composed of three steps. At first, we propose the use of Linkography method to identify the previous proposed ideas. The aim of the second and third steps is the use of the previous ideas in order to propose a new one. With a view to illustrate this contribution, a real case study is presented.

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Title: A new approach to ideation based on linkography combined with graph theory
Authors: Abdellatif Dkhil
Houcine Dammak
Marouane Mouatassim
Mickael Gardoni
Publication date: 10-03-2022
Publisher: Springer Paris
Published in: International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) / Issue 2/2022
Print ISSN: 1955-2513
Electronic ISSN: 1955-2505
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-022-00846-9

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