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...
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...
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...
Air cliché
Basic Types of Brainstorming: Air cliché techniques
Author: Arthur Van Gundy
This technique is the combination of a fun atmosphere, a structured brainstorming procedure, and brainwriting....
“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...
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...
Brainwriting pool (BP)
Brainwriting pool
This variation of brainstorming was developed by the Battlle Institute of Frankfurt, Germany. The brainwriting pool is an idea-generating tool in which new...
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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The classic cluster brainstorming method
Bubble Method
This technique helps to reveal many different aspects of the topic.
Procedure Steps:
1. Write the topic or word in the in the center of...
Stop-and-go Brainstorming
Stop-and-go Brainstorming technique
Types of Brainstorming
The brainstorming session is divided up into segments.
Ideas are generated for three to five minutes and then the group is...
How to make your life better already today
32 Microshifts You Can Start Doing Today To Be A Different Person By 2022
By Brianna Wiest
Chances are, every time you’ve tried to make a...
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...