TY - BOOK AU - Proctor,Tony TI - Creative problem solving for managers: developing skills for decision making and innovation SN - 0415345421 (pbk.) AV - HD30.29 .P76 2005 U1 - 658.403 22 PY - 2005/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Problem solving KW - Management N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004020264.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2004020264-d.html ER -