creativity techniques

Creativity Techniques

Alternative Scenarios Anonymous votingAnalogies Assumption surfacingAnalysis of Interactive Decision Areas (AIDA)

Attribute listing (and variants)

Backward Forward Planning Brain writing gameBoundary examination Brain writing poolBoundary relaxation BrowsingBrainstorming BrutethinkBrain sketching Bug listingBrain Writing Bullet proofingBrain writing 6-3-5 Bunches of bananas

Card story boards Comparison tablesCartoon story board Component detailingCATWOE Concept FanCausal mapping Consensus mappingCharrette Constrained brain writingCherry Split Contradiction AnalysisCircle of Opportunity Controlling imageryClarification Crawford slip writingClassic Brainstorming Creative problem solving (CPS)Collective notebook (CNB) Criteria for idea-finding potential

Critical path diagrams (CPD)

Decision seminar Dialectical approachesDelphi Dimensional analysisDO IT Drawing

Essay writing Exaggeration (magnify or minify)Estimate-discuss -estimate Excursions

Factors in 'selling' ideas Focusing

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False Faces Force-field analysisFishbone diagram Force-fit gameFive W's and H Free associationFlow charts for action planning

'Fresh eye' and networking

Focus groups

Gallery method Goal orientationGap analysis Greetings cards

Help, hinder HighlightingHeuristic ideation technique

Idea advocate Implementation checklistsImagery for answering questions

Improved nominal group technique

Imagery manipulation Interpretive structural modelingImaginary Brainstorming

Keeping a dream diary KJ-methodKepner and Tregoe's method

Laddering ListingLateral Thinking Listing pros and cons

Metaplan information market Morphological Forced ConnectionsMind mapping Multiple redefinitionMorphological analysis

Negative brainstorming Nominal-interacting techniqueNominal group technique (NGT)

Notebook

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viewpointsOsborn's checklist Other people's viewpoints

Paired comparison Plusses, potentials and concernsPanel consensus Potential-problem analysis (PPA)Paraphrasing key words Preliminary questionsPersonal balance-sheet Problem-centred leadership (PCL)Phases of integrated problem solving (PIPS)

Problem inventory analysis (PIA)

Pictures as idea triggers Problem ReversalPin cards Progressive hurdlesPMI (Plus, Minus, Interaction) Progressive revelationPlan Do Check Act (PDCA) Provocation

Q-sort Quality circles

Random stimuli of various kinds

Relational words

Rawlinson Brainstorming RelaxationReceptivity to ideas ReversalsReframing values Role storming

7-Step Model Sticking dotsSCAMMPERR Stimulus analysisSCAMPER Story writingSculptures Strategic assumption testingSearch conference Strategic choice approachSequential-attributes matrix Strategic management processSimilarities and Differences Strategic Options Development and

Analysis (SODA)Simple rating methods Successive element integrationSimplex Super Group®Six Thinking Hats Super heroesSlice and Dice SWOT AnalysisSnowball technique SynecticsSoft systems method Systematized Direct Induction (SDI)Stakeholder analysis

Technology Monitoring Trigger SessionsThink Tank Trigger method

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TILMAG TRIZTransactional planning

Using 'crazy' ideas Using experts

Value brainstorming Visual brainstormingValue engineering Visualising a goal

Who are you? Wishing'Why?' etc. - repeatable questions

Working with dreams and images

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