Wishful Thinking – creativity technique for breakthrough innovation
Wishful Thinking as a tool
for Creative Problem Solving
1. Author
Arthur Van Gundy (May 24, 1946 – May 5, 2009) was an American communication professor, psychologist,...
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 by discovering and suggesting similarities between a problem or focal object...
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 from...
How to solve a problem – checklist by G. Polya
Polya's checklist
Author: Hungarian mathematician George Polya (1887–1985), one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century.
History: In 1945 George Polya proposed the four-step...
The Phoenix checklist – Creative Thinking Technique
The Phoenix checklist as creative problem solving technique
Michael Michalko. Thinkertoys: Handbook of Business Creativity for the 90's.
Phoenix is a checklist of questions developed by the...
SCAMPER – Creative technique for ideation
SCAMPER –Creative tool for ideation
and problem solving
SCAMPER is an acronym from:
Substitute
Combine
Adapt
Modify
Put
Eliminate
Reverse
Author: Bob Eberle, education administrator
History: In 1953 Alex F. Osborn in his book...
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...
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...