So you are having some difficulty coming up with a presentation on the IT opportunities for your organization? It may be time for some ping-pong thinking. What's that you ask?
When I had a consulting business with my brother and partner, we would often brainstorm such questions. But it was more than that. There was it was a sense of accelerating --accelerating ideas, building on each other. That's where we came upon the notion of "Ping-Pong" thinking. That bouncing off of each other, back and forth, like the Ping-Pong ball or the tennis ball in the tennis match, was a way to arrive at the solution. And to talk through the problems. It was almost like a chain reaction --like the atoms Ping-Ponging off of each other and before you knew it, you've got something nuclear, you've got a major light bulb that blossoms out of it. I think that type of creative interaction, that type of bouncing off of each other in that way in the world of ideas, served us well.
So when you have a problem to solve or assignment to deliver, find another smart person and start tossing out ideas. If they start bouncing them back fast and furious, you've found the right person. |