Creative problem solving for managers

developing skills for decision-making and innovation

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Creative problem solving for managers

developing skills for decision-making and innovation

2nd ed.
  • 6 Want to read

This text provides an essential introduction to the ideas and skills of creative problem solving. It shows how and why people are blocked in their thinking, how this impairs the creative problem solving process, and how creative problem solving techniques can help overcome these difficulties. Theories of creative thinking are critically examined and used to justify the variety of techniques which can be used to find insights into difficult management problems.Contents include: paradigm shift and the need for creative thinking in management blocks to creativity and how to overcome them defining and redefining problems Extensive explanations and illustrations of the methods and techniques of the creative problem solving process - Lateral Thinking, Morphological Analysis and Synectics evaluating ideas - qualitative and quantitative approaches implementing and managing ideas.Using case-studies and case histories, together with extensive diagrams, examples and thought-provoking questions, this textbook provides the most up-to-date and extensive approach to this important topic.

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
291

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Creative problem solving for managers: developing skills for decision making and innovation
2010, Routledge
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Cover of: Creative problem solving for managers
Creative problem solving for managers: developing skills for decision-making and innovation
2005, Routledge
in English - 2nd ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
658.4/03
Library of Congress
HD30.29 .P763 2005, HD30.29.P763 2005, HD30.29 .P763 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
291

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3296410M
ISBN 10
0415345413, 0415345421
LCCN
2004020264, 2013020152
OCLC/WorldCat
56367774
LibraryThing
582113
Goodreads
3827141
4380639

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Work ID
OL1962169W

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