Creativity Techniques

A
Alternative Scenarios Anonymous voting
Analogies Assumption surfacing
Analysis of Interactive
Decision Areas (AIDA)
Attribute listing (and variants)
B
Bac!ard "or!ard #lanning Brain !riting game
Boundary e$amination Brain !riting pool
Boundary rela$ation Bro!sing
Brainstorming Brutethin
Brain setching Bug listing
Brain %riting Bullet proo&ng
Brain !riting '()(* Bunches of bananas
C
Card story boards Comparison tables
Cartoon story board Component detailing
CAT%+, Concept "an
Causal mapping Consensus mapping
Charrette Constrained brain !riting
Cherry Split Contradiction Analysis
Circle of +pportunity Controlling imagery
Clari&cation Cra!ford slip !riting
Classic Brainstorming Creative problem solving (C#S)
Collective noteboo (C-B) Criteria for idea(&nding potential
Critical path diagrams (C#D)
D
Decision seminar Dialectical approaches
Delphi Dimensional analysis
D+ IT Dra!ing
E
Essay writing ,$aggeration (magnify or minify)
,stimate(discuss (estimate ,$cursions
F
"actors in .selling. ideas "ocusing
"alse "aces "orce(&eld analysis
"ishbone diagram "orce(&t game
"ive %.s and / "ree association
"lo! charts for action
planning
."resh eye. and net!oring
"ocus groups
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0allery method 0oal orientation
0ap analysis 0reetings cards
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/elp1 hinder /ighlighting
/euristic ideation technique
(/IT)
I
Idea advocate Implementation checlists
Imagery for ans!ering
questions
Improved nominal group technique
Imagery manipulation Interpretive structural modeling
Imaginary Brainstorming
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3
3eeping a dream diary 32(method
3epner and Tregoe.s method
4
4addering 4isting
4ateral Thining 4isting pros and cons
5
5etaplan information maret 5orphological "orced Connections
5ind mapping 5ultiple rede&nition
5orphological analysis
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-egative brainstorming -ominal(interacting technique
-ominal group technique
(-0T)
-oteboo
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+bserver and merged +ther people.s de&nitions
vie!points
+sborn.s checlist +ther people.s vie!points
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#aired comparison #lusses1 potentials and concerns
#anel consensus #otential(problem analysis (##A)
#araphrasing ey !ords #reliminary questions
#ersonal balance(sheet #roblem(centred leadership (#C4)
#hases of integrated problem
solving (#I#S)
Problem inventory analysis (PIA)
#ictures as idea triggers #roblem 6eversal
#in cards #rogressive hurdles
#5I (#lus1 5inus1 Interaction) #rogressive revelation
#lan Do Chec Act (#DCA) #rovocation
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7(sort 7uality circles
6
6andom stimuli of various
inds
6elational !ords
6a!linson Brainstorming 6ela$ation
6eceptivity to ideas 6eversals
6eframing values 6ole storming
S
8(Step 5odel Sticing dots
SCA55#,66 Stimulus analysis
SCA5#,6 Story !riting
Sculptures Strategic assumption testing
Search conference Strategic choice approach
Sequential(attributes matri$ Strategic management process
Similarities and Di9erences Strategic +ptions Development and
Analysis (S+DA)
Simple rating methods Successive element integration
Simple$ Super 0roup:
Si$ Thining /ats Super heroes
Slice and Dice S%+T Analysis
Sno!ball technique Synectics
Soft systems method Systemati;ed Direct Induction (SDI)
Staeholder analysis
T
Technology 5onitoring Trigger Sessions
Thin Tan Trigger method
TI45A0 T6I<
Transactional planning
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=sing .cra;y. ideas =sing e$perts
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>alue brainstorming >isual brainstorming
>alue engineering >isualising a goal
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%ho are you? %ishing
.%hy?. etc@ ( repeatable
questions
%oring !ith dreams and images
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