Separate Opening From Closing
Use divergent and convergent phases to protect idea range before selection.
The creative move is not "no judgment." It is "right judgment, right time." When teams collapse opening and closing, the safest people dominate. The risk analyst sounds practical. The senior stakeholder sounds decisive. The junior person with the strange but useful angle learns to wait. The result is not better judgment; it is a smaller idea set. Use the Double Diamond as a timing tool. Discovery and development expand the set. Definition and delivery narrow it. The language can be simple: for the next eight minutes, we are opening. No feasibility debate yet. Then, for the next seven minutes, we…
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