Creativity and its importance in business
Blocks to creativity
Theories of creativity and the 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.
Creative problem solving for managers : developing skills for decision making and innovation by Tony Proctor. ISBN 9780203859827. Published by Routledge in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.