TY  - BOOK
AU  - Proctor,Tony
TI  - Creative problem solving for managers: developing skills for decision making and innovation 
SN  - 9781138312388 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 658.4 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Personality and managerial performance;
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Management
N1  - 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
ER  -