Proctor, Tony. <br/><br/>
Creative problem solving for managers :  developing skills for decision making and innovation / 
Tony Proctor. 
 - 3rd ed. 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  2010. 
 - xvii, 330 p. :  ill. ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-322) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Creativity and its importance in business -- Blocks to creativity -- Theories of creativity and the creative problem solving process -- Objective finding, fact finding and problem finding/definition -- Morphological analysis and related techniques -- Brainstorming and its variants -- Lateral thinking and associated methods -- Synectics -- Paradigm-breaking techniques and some miscellaneous ideation methods -- Evaluation -- Implementing ideas -- Computer-assisted creative problem solving. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415551083 (hbk.) 0415551080 (hbk.) 9780415551106 (pbk.) :  $60.00 0415551102 (pbk.) 9780203859827 (ebook) 0203859820 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009031032 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Problem solving.<br/>Decision making.<br/>Management.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD30.29  / .P763 2010