Divergence --------> Transformation -------> Convergence
Step 3. Pattern
Pattern is the 3rd step in the novate Innovation Process and is where you recognize and match similarities, commonalities or dis-similarities creating new solution structures or behaviors. You are taking abstract parameters and putting them into categories that match or cognitively align to create good or bad system features or values. Patterns can exist in a linear or a non-linear form creating ideas, cycles or solution forms and boundaries. They can be rearranged, turned upside down and viewed backward. Extraction, scaling or segmentation are all aspects of patterning modes of thinking. To create a pattern may require you to break things apart and reassemble those differently creating sub-patterns. A pattern can exist in shape, size, color, function or behavior.