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Creative Problem Solving for Managers

Tony Proctor

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1. Creativity and its importance in business 2. Blocks to creativity 3. Theories of creativity and the creative problem solving process 4. Problem definition 5. Morphological analysis and related approaches 6. Brainstorming and its variants 7. Lateral thinking and associated methods 8. Synectics 9. Miscellaneous ideation 10. Evaluation 11. Implementing ideas 12. Computer assisted creative problem solving Appendices

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Key concepts: Creative problem-solving, Computer science, Management science, Psychology, Engineering, Creativity, Social psychology