in new ways. Whether that new idea is of immediate value is not a concern at this stage. It is the generation of new ideas which matters at this stage of the problem solving process. It is then up to you to decide if the idea is of value to you. Once you have come up with the new idea, the next hard bit is to make it workable and useable to solve your problem. This is where the computer is not so good and your brain has to do most of the work in putting the idea into the right context. The computer can give you standard prompts for you to analyse the idea, but it is your skill in developing the new idea into a solution for your specific problem. This makes the best use out of both you and your computer. The computer provides the stimulus for you and you turn the stimulus into a solution. The process then becomes: You provide the understanding of the problem and use a Stimulus idea from your personal computer (PC) to develop a new idea. This idea can either be immediately useful or you can use the idea as a bridge between the stimulus and the final workable idea. The idea which is the merging between the stimulus and the problem concept is called the Bridging Idea because it is a bridge between the problem and the final solution. It is a concept that is developed by the merging of