Creative problem solving for managers : developing skills for decision making and innovation - Proctor, Tony (New York: Routledge, 2019)
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.
Revised edition of the author's Creative problem solving for managers, [2014]
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Personality and managerial performance; Decision making; Management