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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
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
Observer and merged Other people's definitions
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
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