TY - BOOK AU - Proctor,Tony TI - Creative problem solving for managers : : developing skills for decision making and innovation SN - 0415345413 U1 - 658.403 22 PY - 2005/// CY - London ; , New York PB - Routledge KW - Problem solving KW - Management N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-283) and indexes; Creativity and its importance in business -- Blocks to creativity -- Theories of creativity and the creative problem solving process -- Objective finding, fact finding and problems 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 ER -