Sunday, September 2, 2007

Web Site Designed to Supply Creative Solutions

The web site would have restricted submission categories for scientists, engineers, technicians, and the general public. In terms of supplying solutions, however, all categories would be accessible to anyone who visited the web site.

Before supplying solutions, each "problem solver" visiting the web site would be tested and given a provisional score in reference to his or her conative profile. Then pairs of problem solvers would be created to bring together sets of desirable strengths. For example, each person with a low QuickStart rating would be paired with someone with a high QuickStart rating. (QuickStart is the conative is trait that is heavily connected with creativity.)

Next, each pair would be presented with a list of suggested problems that particularly suited them. For example, a pair with a strong Implementor would be presented with a list of suggested mechanical problems. (Implementor is the conative trait that is most connected with the physical world three dimensions, athletes, and mechanics, etc.) Each pair could also work off the suggested list if desired.

There could be different strategies for posting solutions. They could be posted publicly and be public property (obviously none of the problems themselves could be considered proprietary information under this model). Alternately, the solutions could be posted privately to the people who posed the problems, possibly with some kind of payment involved. I suppose the payment system would up being similar to eBay, with people rating the people presenting problems for how reliable they were in being fair in paying for valid solutions. In some ways, I like the model of publicly posted solutions better. Makes the site more interesting. Or there might be both options, public or private. I suppose conceivably, solutions might be submitted privately to a trusted third-party that would give an evaluation of the solution to the problem-poser. Based on the solution evaluation, the problem poser would decide whether or not to pay the fee for the solution proposed by the problem solver .

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