About the presentation: This presentation will help you realize how to turn their idea into action through active business planning and applying basic project management skills. The presentation will also guide those considering entrepreneurship through a core mission and vision establishment exercise to help further define their venture. You will learn about the following: Project Work Stream Chart, Initial Mission and Vision Statement, and Synergy between their product and their intended clientele/audience. A *MUST* for entrepreneurs who are in the ideation stage of their venture, who want to know how to organize their idea to help bring it into action, or who are looking to learn basic project management skills that they can apply to their venture.

1. Ideation to Action
7 Secrets to Your Action Plan
ODALC Series 2010 Presented by AJ Thomas

3. Ideation
to get ideas
early on in a project or to solve a tricky
Brainstorming leads to:
Optimism | Sense of Opportunity | Energetic | Innovative

4. 7 Secrets to Your Action Plan
Sharpen The Focus
Articulated Description of Problem
Clear Strategy
Target
example -
Playful Rules
Healthy debate | Go for Quantity | Encourage wild Ideas | Be visual

5. 3. Number your ideas for motivation and for clarity

6. 4. Build and Jump keeping the power curve alive.
BUILD ex.
what are some other ways to
JUMP ex.

7. 5. The Space Remembers exhibit ideas for all group members to see.
Even the low-tech presentation of ideas:
- provides a focal point for the group
- aids in spatial memory

8. 6. Stretch Your M ental M uscles
When to burn some time
doing some form of
group warm-up
When the group has not
worked together before
When most of the group
frequently
When the group seems
distracted by pressing but
unrelated issues

9. Fast paced word game simply to
clear the mind
OR
Do some content-related homework

10. 7. Get Physical
Good brainstorms are extremely visual
Sketching | Mind mapping | Diagrams | Stick figures

11. The Best Brainstormers Often Get Physical
Move beyond two dimensions and push for three
Bring in competitive products
Promising
Solutions from other fields |
technologies that could be
applied | Have materials on hand to build crude
models of a concept | Bodystorming where current behavior/usage
patterns are acted out to see how they might be
altered | Have a 30/60/90 day action plan

13. Your ideas are swimmers in the lanes

14. When you have your lanes defined
your swimmers can then kick off
into action. Much like a race to the
finish.

15. Sticky Factors
Openly Ideate
Establish a Brainstorm Map
Plan Your Swimming Pool
Assign Your Swimmers
Blow The Whistle
YOUR PLAN IS NOW IN ACTION!

16. Thank You!
AJ Thomas
aj@entreworldwide.com
@thegenyblogger