Lotus Blossom Technique
Lotus Blossom - a creative technique for generating new ideas
1. Authors
Thomas Eliot, Yasuo Matsumura, Michael Michalko
2. History
This method was first applied by Thomas Eliot...
Lateral thinking technique – effective tool for creative problem solving
Lateral thinking technique as insight, innovation and creativity
1. Author
Edward de Bono (born May 19, 1933, Malta), was a British psychologist, writer, physician, inventor, expert...
Morphological analysis
Morphological analysis as a creative
problem-solving technique
Morphology (from Ancient Greek morphḗ "form"; and lógos "study") - the study of the structure, shapes or forms...
Gamification: Enhancing Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills
Gamification in business, education and real-life
Gamification is a creative method that involves incorporating game-like elements, game principles and mechanisms into non-game situations, making all...
Freewriting – Subconscious creative technique
Freewriting
1. Authors: Louise Dunlap, Peter Elbow, Natalie Goldberg and Mark Levy
2. History
Such writers as Nikolai Gogol, William Yates, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Anatole...
Free Association – creative technique
Free Association as a creative problem-solving method
1. History
The free association method or associative experiment was first used by Francis Galton and Wilhelm Wundt in...
Role Playing as a Creative Problem Solving Technique
Role Playing
1. Authors
Rick Griggs, Michael Michalko.
2. History
Role Playing as a group brainstorming method invented during the 1980s by business guru Rick Griggs. Later Michael...
Electronic or online brainstorming
Online brainstorming (Brainlining)
Types of Brainstorming
Author: Peter Lloyd
1. Description
Electronic brainstorming or simply Online brainstorming (Brainlining) is the modern version of brainstorming. The word brainlining is...
Design Thinking – New Way of Vision and Creative Problem-solving
Design Thinking a Modern Mindset And Powerful Creativity Technique
Design Thinking is a creative problem-solving method and creativity technique that is used by individuals and...
The Kipling method (5W1H)
The Five W’s and One H Method
1. Author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 –1936), English short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
2. History
The method gets its name from...
The Six Thinking Hats as a tool for creativity and innovation
The Six Thinking Hats for creative problem solving
1. Author
Edward de Bono (born May 19, 1933, Malta), was a British psychologist and writer, physician and...
Method of focal objects
Method of focal objects (MFO)
1. Authors
American scientist Charles Whiting (1958), predecessor – German psychologist Friedrich Kunze “Method of catalog” (1926), follower Edward de Bono...