Creative Problem Solving for Managers

✍ Scribed by Tony Proctor

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This updated text provides a lively introduction to the essential skills of creative problem solving. Using extensive case-studies and examples from a wide range of business situations, it explores a wide range of problem-solving theories and techniques, illustrating how these can be used to solve a range of management problems. Thoroughly revised and redesigned, this new edition retains the accessible and imaginative approach to problem solving skills of the first edition. Contents include: blocks to creativity and how to overcome them key techniques including lateral thinking, morphological analysis and synectics computer-assisted problem solving increased coverage of group problem solving techniques and paradigm shift. As creativity is increasingly recognized as a key skill for successful managers, this book will be welcomed as a comprehensive introduction for students and practising managers alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 11
Preface......Page 15
Creativity and its importance in business......Page 18
Blocks to creativity......Page 39
Theories of creativity and the creative problem solving process......Page 58
Objective finding, fact finding and problem finding/definition......Page 86
Morphological analysis and related techniques......Page 111
Brainstorming and its variants......Page 131
Lateral thinking and associated methods......Page 149
Synectics......Page 173
Miscellaneous ideation......Page 193
Evaluation......Page 223
Implementing ideas......Page 246
Computer assisted creative problem solving......Page 265
Case example of the creative problem solving process......Page 283
Additional cases......Page 292
Notes on cases and problems......Page 309
Publications......Page 313
Bibliography......Page 315
Author index......Page 321
Subject index......Page 324