Mind Mapping for creativity and innovation
Mind Mapping techniques for creative
problem solving
1. Author
Tony Buzan (2 June 1942 – 13 April 2019) was a British writer, researcher and educational...
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...
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...
Reversal (Inversion) as a creative problem solving technique
Reversal (Inversion) as a heuristic method to stimulate creativity
1. Authors
Carl Jacobi, Alex Osborn, Bob Eberle, John R. Dixon, Charles Thompson, Edward de Bono, Anatoliy...
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...
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...
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...
Classical and modern creativity techniques
Matrix of the main creativity techniques
I. Three pillars of activating creativity
1. Classical Brainstorming (Alex Osborn).
2. Synectics (William Gordon).
3. Morphological Analysis (Fritz Zwicky).
1. Classical brainstorming
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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...
The Gallery method
Gallery method as the brainstorming technique
The Gallery method is the technique developed by the Battelle Institute and improved by Van Gundy, 1981 and others.
In...
Round-Robin and Roundtable brainstorming
Round-Robin brainstorming, the verbal and written versions
Spencer Kagan (1992) popularized the use of the terms Roundrobin (to refer to an spoken turn-taking strategy) and...
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...