Instant Creativity: Simple Techniques to Ignite Innovation & Problem Solving

✍ Scribed by Brian Clegg, Paul Birch

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

INSTANT CREATIVITY: SIMPLE TECHNIQUES TO IGNITE INNOVATION & PROBLEM SOLVING provides an action kit of exercises designed to enhance creativity. From identifying common problems and approaches to generating ideas to learning how to tap into creative energy, some seventy techniques are outlined, with feedback and variations throughout. An excellent tool for uncovering not only personal but business creativity, INSTANT CREATIVITY is a top pick for both general interest and business libraries alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
Creativity or bust......Page 8
What’s the hurry?......Page 9
What is it?......Page 12
What stops it?......Page 13
Why techniques?......Page 14
Associations to ideas......Page 15
The longer view......Page 17
Questions and answers......Page 18
Choosing a technique......Page 19
The Instant Creativity structure......Page 20
What’s the question?......Page 22
4.1 Compass......Page 23
4.2 Obstacle map......Page 25
4.3 The level chain......Page 27
4.4 Aerial survey......Page 29
4.5 Destination......Page 31
4.6 Do nothing......Page 33
4.7 Shorts......Page 35
4.8 Adventure......Page 37
4.9 Outside in......Page 39
4.10 Up and down......Page 41
4.11 Time slices......Page 43
4.12 Thesaurus......Page 45
4.13 Crystal ball......Page 47
4.14 Web wandering......Page 49
4.15 Excellence......Page 51
4.16 Army of a thousand......Page 53
4.17 Solve a different problem......Page 55
4.18 Restatement......Page 57
4.19 Mud slinging......Page 59
4.20 Questions race......Page 61
4.21 Whiteboard......Page 63
What’s the answer?......Page 66
5.1 Challenging assumptions......Page 67
5.2 Distortion......Page 69
5.3 Reversal......Page 71
5.4 Fantasy......Page 73
5.5 Someone else’s view......Page 75
5.6 Metaphor......Page 77
5.7 Random word......Page 79
5.8 Random picture......Page 81
5.9 Found objects......Page 83
5.10 Nonsense sentence......Page 85
5.11 On this day......Page 87
5.12 Cool site......Page 89
5.13 Headlines......Page 91
5.14 Quotations......Page 93
5.15 Squirrel box......Page 95
5.16 Set it to music......Page 97
5.17 Da Vinci scribbles......Page 99
5.18 Inside view......Page 101
5.19 Shades......Page 103
5.20 Problem perfect......Page 105
5.21 Frontiers......Page 107
5.22 Attributes......Page 109
5.23 Kid’s play......Page 111
5.24 Components......Page 113
5.25 Substitute......Page 115
5.26 It’s a steal......Page 117
5.27 Behind it......Page 119
5.28 Draw it......Page 121
5.29 Touch me, feel me......Page 123
5.30 Evil genius......Page 125
5.31 The game......Page 127
5.32 It’s silly......Page 129
5.33 Been there before......Page 131
5.34 Abattoir of sacred cows......Page 133
5.35 Size matters......Page 135
5.36 Lose the baggage......Page 137
5.37 Auntie gravity......Page 139
5.38 Long division......Page 141
5.39 It’s only natural......Page 143
5.40 Location......Page 145
5.41 TV listings......Page 147
5.42 Cacophony......Page 149
5.43 Morphology......Page 151
5.44 Talking pictures......Page 153
5.45 Two words......Page 155
5.46 Psychiatrist’s couch......Page 157
5.47 Mix and match......Page 159
5.48 Lost in translation......Page 161
5.49 They’re winning......Page 163
5.50 The £100 bid......Page 165
5.51 SWOT......Page 167
5.52 Option evaluation......Page 169
5.53 Signposts......Page 171
5.54 Hazard markers......Page 173
Reading up......Page 176
E-creativity......Page 178
The Random Selector......Page 182
Techniques in timing order......Page 183
Techniques in expertise order......Page 184
Techniques in direction setting order......Page 185
Techniques in idea generation order......Page 186
Techniques in problem solving order......Page 187
Techniques in fun order......Page 188
5.5 Someone else’s view......Page 190
5.7 Random word and 5.45 Two words......Page 191
5.10 Nonsense sentence......Page 192
5.19 Shades......Page 193