TY - BOOK AU - Proctor, Tony TI - Creative problem solving for managers : : developing skills for decision making and innovation SN - 0415345413 AV - HD 30.29 .P763 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - PROBLEM SOLVING KW - DECISION MAKING N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Creativity and its importance in business -- Blocks to creativity -- Theories of 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 N2 - This book discusses the importance of creativity in business, theories of creative problem solving, brainstorming, lateral thinking, computer assisted problem solving, and how to implement ideas ER -