Team Idea mapping
Team Idea mapping, the essence and procedure steps
The team idea mapping method is based on association. It may improve collaboration and increase the quantity...
Individual brainstorming
Individual brainstorming and its types
Individual brainstorming is done independently on a solitary basis.
It typically includes such techniques as
free writing,
free speaking,
free word ...
Group passing technique
Group passing technique and its versions
The Group passing technique involves sitting in a circle or around a table and offering solutions in a fast...
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...
Gordon-Little variation
Progressive Revelation technique
Types of Brainstorming
This technique was suggested by William Gordon while he was working for the Arthur D. Little Invention Design Unit in...
The Buzz session
Buzz session as type of brainstorming
This method was developed by J.D. Phillips (1948).
A small group drawn from a larger group that discuss a specific...
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...
Trigger method
Trigger method as the type of brainstorming
Types of Brainstorming
The trigger method is often used in conjunction with classical brainstorming (Bujake, 1969).
This method is based...
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...
C. Jung’s “16 associations” test as a problem solving method
Exercise-test "16 associations"
1. Author and history
Carl Jung created and began to use the word association test in 1910-1916 to unravel the subconscious. He discovered...
Classical and modern creativity techniques
Matrix of the main creativity techniques
I. Three pillars of activating creativity
1. Classical Brainstorming (Alex Osborn).
A widely known method is where a group generates ideas...
“What if?” – A powerful creativity and possibility thinking technique
"What if?" - creativity, possibility thinking and problem solving technique
1. Authors: Edward de Bono, Paul Sloane
2. History
The "What If...?" technique is rooted in Thought...