TY - BOOK AU - Proctor,Tony TI - Creative problem solving for managers: developing skills for decision making and innovation SN - 9781315882994 (e-book : PDF) PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Problem solving KW - Decision making KW - Management KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - "First published 1999"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 1. Creativity and its importance in business -- 2. Blocks to creativity -- 3. Theories of creativity and the creative problem-solving process -- 4. Problem solving and improvisation -- 5. Factors influencing people's ability to undertake ideation -- 6. Objective finding, fact finding and problem finding/definition -- 7. Morphological analysis and related techniques -- 8. Brainstorming and its variants -- 9. Lateral thinking and associated methods -- 10. Synectics -- 11. Paradigm breaking techniques -- 12. Miscellaneous ideation techniques -- 13. Evaluation -- 14. Implementing ideas -- 15. Computer-assisted creative problem solving; Also available in print edition UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9781315882994 ER -