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Creative problem solving for managers : developing skills for decision making and innovation / Tony Proctor.

By: Proctor, TonyMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, c2005Edition: 2nd edDescription: xvi, 291 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0415345421 (pbk.); 9780415345422 (pbk.)Subject(s): Problem solving | ManagementDDC classification: 658.403 LOC classification: HD30.29 | .P76 2005Online resources: Table of contents | Publisher description
Contents:
Creativity and its importance in business -- Blocks to creativity -- Theories of creativity and the creative problem solving process -- Objective finding, fact finding and problems finding/definition -- Morphological analysis and related techniques -- Brainstorming and its variants -- Lateral thinking and associated methods -- Synectics -- Paradigm-breaking techniques and some miscellaneous ideation methods -- Evaluation -- Implementing ideas -- Computer-assisted creative problem solving.
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Includes bibliographical references [p. 277-283] and index.

Creativity and its importance in business -- Blocks to creativity -- Theories of creativity and the creative problem solving process -- Objective finding, fact finding and problems finding/definition -- Morphological analysis and related techniques -- Brainstorming and its variants -- Lateral thinking and associated methods -- Synectics -- Paradigm-breaking techniques and some miscellaneous ideation methods -- Evaluation -- Implementing ideas -- Computer-assisted creative problem solving.

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