TY - BOOK AU - Proctor,Tony TI - Creative problem solving for managers: developing skills for decision making and innovation SN - 9780415551083 (hbk.) AV - HD30.29 .P763 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Problem solving KW - Decision making KW - Management N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-322) and indexes; 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 ER -