101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques by Higgins

101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques Contents

Chapter I INNOVATE OR EVAPORATE 

1. INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY
2. THE “FOUR P’S” OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
3. THE FOUR TYPES OF INNOVATION
4. REFERENCES

Chapter 2 THE CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING PROCESS

1. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING 
2. BUILDING CREATIVITY INTO PROBLEM-SOLVING
3. 101 CPSTECHNIQUES
4. REFERENCES 

Chapter 3 CREATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR ANALYZING THE ENVIRONMENT, RECOGNIZING & IDENTIFYING PROBLEMS, AND MAKING ASSUMPTIONS 

1. TECHNIQUES FOR ANALYZING THE ENVIRONMENT
2. TECHNIQUES FOR RECOGNIZING PROBLEMS 
3. TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING PROBLEMS 
4. TECHNIQUES FOR MAKING ASSUMPTIONS
5. ANALYZING THE ENVIRONMENT, RECOGNIZING AND IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM and MAKING ASSUMPTIONS

Chapter 4 INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES FOR GENERATING CREATIVE ALTERNATIVES

Chapter 5 GROUP TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING ALTERNATIVES 

1. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF GROUP DECISION MAKING
2. GROUP PROCESSES FOR GENERATING CREATIVE ALTERNATIVES

Chapter 6 CREATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR CHOOSING AMONG THE ALTERNATIVES, IMPLEMENTATION, AND CONTROL

1. CHOOSING AMONG ALTERNATIVES
2. IMPLEMENTATION
3. ADDITIONAL ADVICE ON IMPLEMENTATION
4. CONTROL

Chapter 7 USING THE TECHNIQUES 

USING YOUR INTUITION 

1. USING THE TECHNIQUES

Preface to 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques

Enterprise and their managers, skilled employees, crew leaders and different workers are confronted with a number of challenges as they method the twenty-first century.

Change is happening at an accelerating fee. The variety of opponents is growing dramatically. Enterprise is globalizing. New know-how is being launched at a speedy tempo. The workforce is more and more numerous.

There’s a shortage of sure assets, together with extremely expert staff. There’s a transformation occurring from an industrial to a knowledge-based society. Financial and market situations are more and more unstable, particularly on a worldwide foundation.

Constituents are extra demanding. And eventually, your complete enterprise atmosphere is changing into extra complicated. To satisfy these challenges and the alternatives they create, companies are embracing artistic drawback fixing and innovation as by no means earlier than.

To realize efficient and environment friendly ranges of artistic drawback fixing and innovation which ends, a company should enhance the creativity of its workgroups and people, and it should create the proper of organizational tradition which is able to flip that creativity into innovation.

One of many key methods by which people and teams can enhance their creativity is thru studying creativity processes, methods that make the most of innate intuitive and inventive talents, methods that channel these talents to create new or enhanced services or products, or create simpler and environment friendly organizational processes.

This ebook describes the fundamental artistic drawback fixing (CPS) mannequin after which describes 101 methods for unleashing particular person and group creativity. These methods comply with the CPS mannequin.

Managers, professionals, crew leaders, and another worker enthusiastic about bettering his or her job efficiency or that of the workgroup, or for that matter, your complete firm, will discover this ebook helpful. This ebook is instantly useable in-company coaching applications.

Organizational creativity coaching applications have grown quickly in current months, and this ebook is designed to satisfy the wants of such applications.

101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques: The Handbook of New Ideas for Business PDF

Author(s): James M. Higgins

Publisher: New Management Pub. Co., Year: 1994

ISBN: 1883629004,9781883629007

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