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), British psychologist and writer, physician and inventor, expert...
Metaphor technique for creative problem solving
Metaphor technique
1. Description
Metaphor technique consists in creating new possibilities, means and solutions the by discovering and suggestion similarities between a problem or focal...
Analogy technique as a tool for creative problem solving
Analogy technique
1. Authors: W. Gordon (1961), E. de Bono (1970).
2. History
W. Gordon began to use analogy as an effective method for creative problem...
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...
Five Why – interrogative technique
Five Why Method
1. Author: Sakichi Toyoda (1867 –1930), Japanese inventor and industrialist, who is referred to as the "King of Japanese Inventors".
2. History: The technique...
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...
SCAMPER – Creative technique for ideation
SCAMPER –Creative tool for ideation
and problem solving
(It is an acronym from Substitute Combine Adapt Modify Put Eliminate Reverse)
Author : Bob Eberle, education administrator
History:...
Electronic or online brainstorming
Online brainstorming (Brainlining)
Author: Peter Lloyd
1. Description
Electronic brainstorming or simply Online brainstorming (Brainlining) is the modern version of brainstorming. The word brainlining is combined with...
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...
Morphological analysis
Morphology (from Ancient Greek morphḗ "form"; and lógos "study") - study of the structure, shapes or forms of animate and inanimate objects (crystal, words, artifacts,...
The Best Creativity Techniques
Creative problem solving and
creativity techniques
I. Three pillars of activating creativity
1. Classical Brainstorming (Alex Osborn).
2. Synectics (William Gordon).
3. Morphological Analysis (Fritz Zwicky).
II. The classic methods...
Synectics
Synectics: Essence, Principles and Stages
Etimology: The term Synectics was derived from the Greek words syn –meaning “ bringing together” and ectikos meaning “diversity”, so...