| Perceptual Blocks | Difficulty in Isolating
the Problem
Delimiting the Problem Area Too Closely Inability to See Problem Through Various Viewpoints Stereotyping Saturation |
| Emotional Blocks | Fear of Taking a Risk
Judging Rather Than Generating Ideas Inability to Incubate Reality and Fantasy |
| Cultural Blocks | Taboos
Lack of Humor, Playfulness, Fantasy, Reflection Unreasonable & Illogical Prevalence of Reason & Logic Lack of Artistic Thinking Skills Tradition and Change |
| Environmental Blocks | Nonsupportive Environments, Criticism,
Judging
Autocratic Bosses Organizations Group Dynamics Failures |
Creativity Enhancing Techniques
| Questioning
Attitude |
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| Lateral
Thinking |
View the problem as others might see it
Turn the problem upside down Change scope of the problem (the systems approach) Question your implicit assumptions Shift emphasis from one part of problem to another Can the problem be structured differently? |
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| Idea
Checklists |
73 Idea Spurring Questions
Morphology: "One from column a and one from column B " Strategy Generation Table |
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| Brainstorming | rule out criticism
welcome freewheeling generate many ideas seek combination and improvement of ideas define the problem properly |
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Metaphorical Thinking |
Close
Analogy
Far-Out Alanogy Personal Analogy Fantasy Analogy Forced Analogy Augury(Astrology, Tarot, Tea leaves, Bibliomancy) |
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| Nominal Group
Technique |
Silent writing
round robin clarification discussion approval voting |
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| Brainwriting Method | During first quiet period, each participant writes several solutions
on paper.
Members then exchange papers (rotate clockwise). During second quiet qeriod, each participant adds new ideas to paper or nuilds upon ideas already on paper. |
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| Creative Conflict | Devil's Advocate & Dialectic |