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I want to
generate new ideas
by
thinking
differently
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FAST IDEA GENERATOR LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT
INSPIRED BY
Nesta (2013) Fast Idea Generator

FAIRLY SIMPLE, SELF ADMINISTERED TOOL

needs relatively less time

PRACTICAL TOOLS TO TRIGGER & SUPPORT SOCIAL INNOVATION Development Impact & You
PRACTICAL TOOLS TO TRIGGER & SUPPORT SOCIAL INNOVATION Development Impact & You
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FAST IDEA GENERATOR

What is it & why

should
I do it?

This tool allows a team to generate ideas by looking at a problem or

opportunity from a range of perspectives. This helps to not only
come up with new ideas for potential solutions, but also to
strengthen a current proposition of offering, as it challenges it from
different approaches. Comprised of 7 approaches, or challenges,
you can choose the ones that seem most applicable to take the
topic at hand further, thus using the tool as a stimulating start to a
discussion.

The Fast Idea Generator helps to frame ideas, problems or

opportunities in relation to different scenarios. It stretches the
thinking around a concept in different directions, providing a
stimulating discussion that will further strengthen the concept. To
use the tool effectively, the starting point (problem, opportunity,
concept idea or existing proposition) should be clearly laid out.
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In resource-poor hospitals, patients almost always need the What if patients would not have to rely on the presence of
direct assistance of health workers. their healthcare providers?

A manual bag valve mask is often used when a patient’s What if these manual bag valve masks were automatic?
breathing needs assistance. This is manually squeezed by a
healthcare personnel.

Small hospitals are not appropriated with enough ventilators. What if ventilators are inexpensive enough to be accessible
to all hospitals, and other medical and healthcare facilities.

Manual bag valve masks used for adults are different from What if there was a single machine with the same function as
the ones being used for children and infants. This is because the manual BVM that can be used to assist the respiration of
adults, children, and infants have different respiration rates. adult, young and infant patients.

Ventilators operate either through a DC or AC power supply. What if ventilators could be operated through both an AC,
and DC power source such as rechargeable batteries for it to
be useful even in areas with limited power supply?

Nurses attend to patients especially when patients need What if nurses could take some time off their long hours of
intensive care. works without denying care to patients?

Mechanical engineering and medicine are not often What if mechanical engineering principles were applied
associated with each other. create a medical device that can sustain or save lives?

A mechanical bag valve mask (BVM), or what is more What if a pneumatic mechanism were introduced to the BVM
commonly known as an AMBU bag, is manually operated by to make it automatic through both DC and AC power supply?
healthcare personnel.

Technologically sophisticated ventilators that assist the What if ventilators were inexpensive, energy-efficient,
breathing of patients with respiratory illnesses are expensive lightweight, and portable?
and cannot be transported easily.