Creative problem solving for managers : developing skills for decision making and innovation /
Tony Proctor.
- 5th Edition.
- New York: Routledge, 2019.
- 374 pages
Revised edition of the author's Creative problem solving for managers, [2014]
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface to fourth edition -- Creativity and it importance in business -- Blocks to creativity -- Theories of creativity -- Problem solving and improvisation -- Factors influencing people's ability to undertake ideation -- Objective finding, fact finding and problem finding/definition -- Morphological analysis and related techniques -- Brainstorming and its variants -- Lateral thinking and associated methods -- Synectics -- Miscellaneous ideation techniques -- Evaluation -- Decision making -- Computer-assisted creative problem solving -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index.
9781138312388 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Personality and managerial performance; Decision making. Management.