Gordon/Little Group Technique Concept
Gordon/Little Group Technique has as goals to help a certain group to formulate innovative ideas and to introduce new approaches to a problem through the structuring of the ideas generation phase in the problems resolution and through the incentive to creativity in the groups who have blocked. Gordon/Little Group Technique is especially useful in situations in which is difficult to face problems with a new approach in the way that helps the group to observe the problems under new angles and helps to detach the most common thought processes, converting into proposals and creative solutions.
Implementation way (steps to follow)
- Should be made a formal statement of the problem, in a way as clear and specific possible;
- The problem statement should be analyzed as a way to identify the tasks or generic problems that form it. Will then be written a very general statement of the problem that dissociates it from its context;
- Follows the delivery of the general problem statement to the work group, requesting them to create classes of general solutions;
- The problem should after be defined in a more specific way, repeating the discussion and creation of solutions;
- At last, the problem is places in its most specific way. Should be analyzed and generated new ideas but guided by the general analysis presented in the previous phases.
With this technique, after the group analyses the problem generically and not familiar, independently of the original context, the leader introduces more strict and concrete definitions of the problem, allowing the group to return to the original specific problem and its daily context. However, having solved it on a more generic level, the group should now be able to face alternative and less obvious approaches.
