Testing Specific Skills

Creativity and Innovation

3.1 – Generate ideas independently. Task 1

3.2 – Generate new ideas by sharing, disseminating, and building on collaborative creative thinking.

3.3 – Make connections between different information in order to support outcomes.

3.4 – Use creative thinking to analyse information and ideas.

Task 3

Task 5

Task 1

Task 5

Task 3

Task 5

3.5 – Consider the feasibility in implementing ideas and outcomes. Task 2/3 (loosely)

3.6 – Apply objective decision-making techniques to justify selection of the most appropriate idea, including the views of others where appropriate.

3.8 – Develop innovative communications that are appropriate to the audience.

Criteria

Task 2

Task 6

You have been given the opportunity to lease one of these units but need to have a feasible business idea. There are conditions with leasing a unit. Your ideas must:

• be connected to Wales

• offer something different to other similar businesses that you are aware of

• have set up costs that do not exceed £5000.

Tasks

1. Come up with at least four business ideas. Describe the ideas and how they fulfil each criteria. Collaborate with others to gather feedback on your ideas.

What techniques could I use to come up with ideas?

How can I gather feedback?

2. Use appropriate decision-making techniques to select and justify your preferred idea and consider the feasibility of your business proposal.

What decision-making techniques could prove useful? For example, SODAS, SWOT.

3. Develop your proposal by coming up with a business name, a layout design and description for the unit. Share your name, layout design and description with another member of your class. Respond to feedback and make changes.

4. Talk to other members of your class. Find out about their selected proposal for one of the units and tell them about yours. Once you have spoken to at least five other people, select one person to pair up with to complete Tasks 5 and 6.

5. As a pair, discuss how you could innovatively merge your ideas together so that customers may shop and spend money at both units. Use collaborative creative thinking to build on ideas and analyse opportunities. Could you offer discounts, promotions, joint events or combine what you are selling? For example, the bookshop could host events such as reading books to an audience or offer drinks and snacks whilst people are getting their hair cut at the barber shop.