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9 Creative Problem Solving Tools For Your Next Breakthrough Idea

This is a suite of 9 creative problem solving tools from Erik op ten Berg. He’s an expert in creative thinking or applying creativity from the Netherlands.

He’s been working in this field for 25 years and has a Master of Science from Buffalo State University in New York.

His creative problem solving process takes a challenge and finds ideas that are new, useful and meaningful. I guarantee you this process will help you mobilise your group’s creative thinking skills.

You and your group will find original ideas which are always there. This helps you get to the holy grail of breakthrough thinking and quite possibly the ‘next big thing’.

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Please note that the video and audio quality is a little shaky in places. Sorry about that! We had some technical issues with Skype that were difficult to overcome.

Four Stages of Creative Problem Solving

The first two stages help you and your group ‘explore ideas’. The third stage helps you select the best ideas and the fourth tests the feasibility of your best ideas.

These are the four stages you need to go through (no skipping a stage please):

• Idea generation
• Idea expansion
• Idea selection
• Idea feasibility

Always start with the ABC Avalanche and then use 1 or 2 of the next 5 tools to expand the list of possible solutions.

1. ABC Avalanche (3:55sec on video)

A very basic brainstorming technique but extremely powerful.

This tool asks people to generate at least 26 ideas for a specific challenge sorting them by their first letters. It takes about 10-15 minutes.

• Write down the central question.
• Write down the letters of the alphabet.
• Generate many ideas sorting them by their first letters.
• Complete the alphabet.

Because participants focus on generating a specific number of ideas they postpone their judgments.

These attitudes are core to creative problem solving:

• Generating many alternative ideas.
• Postponing judgments.
• Moving past the first few (obvious) ideas.

Depending on the number of people in the session you can split into sub-groups. Feel free to build in a little competition between the groups if you like.

From this stage you have at least 26 starting ideas and people won’t have jumped into judging whether they are good ideas or not.

2. Breaking Assumptions (7:38min on video)

This is a second stage to an ABC Avalanche.

One of the very classical thinking techniques because to be truly creative you need to break patterns.

Once you’re aware of a pattern or an assumption in your idea generation so far you can deliberately break this assumption and new ideas will come forward and present themselves.

• List 5 assumptions present in the question or in the list of ideas.
• Take the opposite of each assumption.
• Imagine new solutions that run opposite to the initial assumptions.
• Add these to your list of ideas.

You ask the group to identify any patterns or assumptions that are built into either the challenge or list of ideas they’ve generated so far.

Then you ask them to take the opposite view (i.e. break that assumption) and come up with any new solutions and add them to your list of ideas.

3. Association Flower (11:13min on video)

Also a second stage technique after ABC Avalanche giving you and your group extra ‘access points’ from which to consider the challenge and generate more ideas.

This technique will generate a long list of associated keywords that can be used to generate even more ideas related to the original challenge.

• Write down a keyword about the challenge in the centre of the flower and four words that are associated with the keyword around it (see template on next page).
• Write around this keyword four associations.
• Then follow each of the 4 words in turn up its branch writing associated keywords as you go.
• Then use all these words to think in a new way about your challenge and generate even more ideas.
• Make the list of ideas as large as possible.

4. Visual Connections (15:33min on video)

Another way to create new ‘access points’ from which to generate new ideas.

• Focus on an interesting object, picture or an article in a newspaper.
• Write down your thoughts, reactions, impressions and observations.
• Make connections to the central topic and write these down as new ideas.
• Repeat this several times and expand your list of ideas.

You could bring a deck of pictures with you, or a set of magazines, or even ask the participants to bring their own magazines so they’re an integral part of the process.

5. SCAMPER (18:31min on video)

Use the 8 words from the acronym to approach the challenge from a different angle and generate a larger list of creative ideas.

SCAMPER is the summary of 72 questions used by Alex Osborn who is the man that founded the concept of brainstorming in the early 40s.

• SUBSTITUTE: parts, the whole, material…
• COMBINE: functions, material, just different…
• ADAPT: other color, place, use, form, timing…
• MAXIMIZE: bigger, stronger, longer, more time, macro level, use more often…
• MINIMIZE: smaller, lighter, shorter, micro level, less important…
• PUT TO OTHER USES: other context…
• ELIMINATE: parts, functions, material…
• REVERSE: sequence, upside down, inside out…

There’s no need to do all these words. Let them go wherever they want to go to create more productive access points to tackle the original challenge.

6. Analogy with nature (22:32min on video)

Sometimes people are using this technique as biomimicry .

Your question to the group: what kind of animals are you thinking about when you use your imagination?

Get them to list lots of animals quickly and ask them to select one. What is it that makes this an extraordinary animal?

Once you have that list of characteristics about the animal use those words as access points to generate more ideas about the challenge. What you’re doing here is using the beauty of nature and bringing that connection back to the challenge.

• List several names of animals.
• Choose a special animal with no link to the problem.
• List 10 characteristics about this animal.
• Use each characteristic as a stimulus for new ideas.
• Make a force-to-fit to the problem and boost your list of ideas.

Next step is to select ideas through a process of prioritization that you want to go deeper into and do further work on to develop them further.

7. Selecting ideas & COCD Box (24:37min on video)

Using a combination of dots (or hits as Erik calls them) and his COCD box you’re looking to boil down your grand list of ideas down to about 15 really good ones (5 in each color – blue, red and yellow).

• 5-15 IDEAS: everybody selects his or her 1-3 favorite hits; make out of these a top 3.
• 15-40 IDEAS: 5 sparkling ideas per person; focus on these and define an overall top 5 using dots or hits.
• >40 IDEAS: select individually 5-8 blue-red-yellow ideas (COCD-box); define the BIG 5 in each color.

Once you have 5 good ideas in each of the coloured boxes look for themes across them to try and boil everything down to a Top 5 by making some smart combinations.

If you’re looking for breakthrough ideas (and most often you will be) the ideas in the red box will be the ones you want to focus on in the next stage.

8. Concepting (30:07min on video)

What you’re looking to do now is enrich your ideas into concepts. You do this by combining your headline ideas with other ideas that are closely related from your overall list.

Take each red idea in turn and see if you can bundle in other ideas from the grand list.

• Focus on the selected ideas.
• Take one idea and add on different ideas (with and without dots) from the idea list, to enrich the original idea.
• Do this for all the selected ideas.
• Give the enriched ideas an attractive title.
• Go on with these results.

Then give the enriched ideas a more attractive title.

9. PPCO (33:38min on video)

This is one of Erik’s little gems he got out of his Master of Science in Buffalo.

At this stage you’re looking to expand and test your best ideas or concepts for feasibility.

• Pluses : what is good, positive about the idea.
• Potentials : what are the possibilities if the idea were pursued.
• Concerns : phrase shortcomings or limitations of the idea as questions.
• Overcomes : generate ideas to overcome the ‘burning’ concerns.

PPCO is like a SWOT analysis but in a more positive end. A moving towards approach instead of getting away approach. Facing truth and reality in a way of opportunities.

Pluses : Let’s see why we should do this idea. Potentials : What are the extra potentials of this idea that you haven’t considered before? These are extra or super pluses. Concerns : ‘how can I overcome (insert negative point here) …” Overcomes : your last stage of creative thinking where you’re generating answers of how to overcome your concerns.

You end with a triple positive state with very realistic backgrounds. That’s the kind of creativity you need when you have a good idea and you want to move it further whilst trying to taste a bit of the potential of it.

Creative problem solving is a process that, if you have the right tools and activities at hand, you can consistently achieve fantastic results from.

For your session to be a success you need to make sure you move past the first few obvious ideas, you generate tonnes of alternatives and that you postpone judgment on the quality of each idea until the appropriate moment.

How does your experience stack up? Do you have any secrets you’d like to share in the comments below?

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About the Author

Erik op ten Berg (1963) holds a Master of Science Degree in Creativity and Change Leadership, and is educated in Innovation Management at Delft Technical University in The Netherlands. He is a well-known trainer in Creative Problem Solving, and moderator of hundreds of change focused brainstorm workshops. Besides his own company Pioen consult he is also partner at the “Center for the Development of Creative Thinking” (COCD) in Belgium.

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dear Rakesh! send me an email at [email protected] ; I will appologize for the delays in my answer because of some Summer holiday trips until August 22…

Thanks for sharing all these ideas. Very interesting and it generates a lots of ideas. One of them is the potential use of istock or getty image platform to search visuals using key words for Visual connections exercises. Wonder if you have try something like this in the past.

Great idea Dany. You need to be careful of potential copyright infringements obviously but there are loads of free stock image repositories out there too you can use in the way you suggest.

hi Dany! visual connections are an “easy way” to create access to thoughts that didn’t came up before; you can do this offline and also online; my experience with group thinking is better with offline pictures then online; bur for individual practice the online inspiration can be very productive and provocative; I wish you lots of creative detours in your own thinking; best wishes, Erik op ten Berg

Very educative, very informative, very useful for a trainer/coach. Thanks for great help to trainer community. World owes you a lot.

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• What is a Problem?
• A problem arises when a living creature has a goal but does not know how this goal is to be reached.
• A problem exists whenever one cannot go from the given situation to the desired situation simply by action. K. Dunker, On Problem Solving, (1945) p. 1
• What is Problem Solving?
• Problem Solving is the process of working out or discovering how to reach such a goal.
• Creative thinking is the process of generating novel ideas and alternative courses of action, no matter how good those ideas and alternatives might be.
• Creative thinking should not be seen as an alternative to critical thinking
• When you have recognised a problem, then you should employ creative thinking to produce some options for solving the problem, then you should employ critical thinking
• If you havent come up with enough options to begin with, then your critical thinking decision procedure might produce the wrong result a dangerous result!
• Creative thinking supports critical thinking While critical thinking focuses on step-by-step, linear processes aimed at arriving at a correct answer, creative thinking begins with possibility, multiple ideas, and suspended judgement. It might be said that creative thinking supports the ideas with which critical thinking works. Thus, even though these two kinds of thinking work in different ways, they actually support one another and aim at the same ultimate goal, which is to solve a problem At the beginning of the process, creative methods are used to examine the problem environment, generate ideas, and make associations. Then the analysis and judgment faculties are brought into play, and the possibilities are analyzed for a possible solution. Robert Harris, CB pp. 115-6
• Did the smithy replace some of the kings gold with silver?
• How did Archimedes find out?
• (Not Archimedes style to torture the smithy)
• The solution, which occurred when he stepped into a public bath and caused it to overflow, was to put a weight of gold equal to the crown, and known to be pure, into a bowl which was filled with water to the brim. Then the gold would be removed and the kings crown put in, in its place. An alloy of lighter silver would increase the bulk of the crown and cause the bowl to overflow. Vitruvius, De Architectura
• And the wreath was impure!
• It was very useful to Archimedes
• He was well respected and treated in Syracuse
• Marcellus, the Roman general, ordered his life to be spared when Syracuse finally fell
• But his obsession with maths was ultimately his downfall!
• Can we be like Archimedes?
• Can we learn to be creative thinkers?
• Associative Techniques
• Analytic Techniques
• Brainstorming
• Role Playing
• Compare something familiar to something unfamiliar.
• Close analogy e.g. apples and pears
• Remote analogy e.g. Pringles
• Forced analogy
• The problem recreating that dazzling 360 degree panoramic holiday view
• The forced analogy a wreath
• The answer!
• The problem vertigo
• The forced analogy swimming
• The problem Carrying lots of shopping when its raining
• The forced analogy a tennis player
• Breaking a problem down into smaller parts
• E.g. How can I make the All Blacks win the Rugby World Cup?
• Vital components of the problem
• Henry Just one ensuring the ABs perform to their capacity
• Hence the 4 Rs of Henrys regime
• Relationships within team are friendly
• Really discreet signaling during matches
• Unfortunately (as we know), Henry didnt analyse the problem thoroughly.
• He missed a vital component of the problem
• The Barnes Factor
• Good analytic techniques will help to ensure that all of the important components of the problem are addressed
• Deliberately set about coming up with alternatives, and write them all down, no matter what.
• No idea is a bad idea (at least just yet)
• Edward de Bono 6 hats green hat time
• One company generated 2,200 ideas in one day!
• Roleplaying. Attempt to simulate aspects of the problem and proposed solutions. Try to imagine details of the relevant outcomes after your choice has been made, and attempt to put yourself in the shoes of other people.
• A good method for gathering information and gaining perspective
• E.g. Theoretical vs. practical lecturing
• E.g. Customers-eye-view of displays
• E.g. Hand-out-of-the-car-window aerodynamics
• He was also a prolific problem solver
• So, how can we harness these 4 idea creation techniques to help us solve problems?
• Ideas should be generated after the problem has been properly understood and represented
• One and only one of the switches (A, B C) on the outside of the room turns on all of the lights (x, y z) in the room
• From outside, you cannot see into the room
• The wiring is hidden from view
• You are not allowed to damage any of the property
• Is there a way of knowing for sure which switch turns the lights on?
• Once you enter the room, you cannot leave again to rearrange the switches
• Station 1 and Station 2 are 50 miles apart on a straight train track
• Train 1 leaves Station 1 at the same time that Train 2 leaves Station 2
• Both trains travel at 25 miles per hour toward the other station
• The bird starts directly above Train 1 and flies above the track until it reaches Train 2. Then it flies back to Train 1 etc.
• The bird flies at 230 miles per hour
• How far has the bird flown by the time the trains meet?
• What will happen to the block of wood when the person lets go of it?
• The block will drop down as it is drawn to earth by gravity
• so long as the person is on earth.
• It will float up if the person is under water.
• And it will go nowhere (or a little bit sideways?!) if the person is in space.
• Suggestion 1 Drop presuppositions that arent explicit in the original statement of the problem
• Can you connect all of the dots with just 4 straight lines?
• You cannot take your pen off the paper
• You cant use a ridiculously big pen
• The second line must start where the first line finished. The third line must start where the second line finished etc.
• Imagine the dots are drawn on a flat an immovable surface
• The solution
• Suggestion 1 Drop presuppositions that arent explicit in the original statement of the problem.
• There was a terrible accident on the motorway coming into Wellington
• A man was killed on impact and his son was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries
• At the hospital, the surgeon saw the boy and said I cant operate, thats my son
• What is going on here?
• Many of us assume that surgeons have to be male, making us come up with crazy answers for a simple question
• Suggestion 2 Make sure you represent everything explicit in the original statement of the problem.
• Age of the first son x
• Age of the second son y
• Age of the third son z
• Safe assumption x y z
• Suggestion 3 When thinking about how you could represent a problem, look for structural similarities between this problem and one you know the answer to..
• Suggestion 3 When thinking about how you could represent a problem, look for structural similarities between this problem and one you know the answer to.
• This certainly works with IQ tests and brainteasers
• But also with (real life!) problem solving in general
• Radiotherapy treatment for stomach cancer
• - A structurally similar dictator analogy helped 1 20
• - The analogy with an answer helped 1 75
• An ability to solve logic puzzles is thought to be positively correlated with an ability to think creatively and solve problems of any kind.
• Whether or not such a correlation really exist, it is commonly believed to exist.
• Employers care more about creative thinking and problem solving abilities in the workforce more than any other general skill..
• Creative thinking and problem solving abilities are among the most important skills sought after by universities..
• Hence, universities and employers will screen candidates on the basis of their ability to solve logic puzzles.
• You have twenty blue socks, twenty brown socks, and two black sock in a drawer in your room. If it is night time, and the room is completely dark, how many would you have to take out to be sure you have 2 of the same colour?
• A mother sent her child to the lake and told him to bring back exactly 7 litres of water. She gave him a 5 litre bucket and a 3 litre bucket. How can the child measure out exactly 7 litres of water using nothing but the two buckets.
• You've got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two breaks in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker?
• An Impossible Interview Question is one that has no single acceptable answer.
• How many piano tuners are there in the world?
• How long would it take to move Mount Fuji?
• Dont freak out!
• Dont give a joke answer (e.g. depends if we get Chuck Norris to help)
• Suggest a potential approach
• Ask them questions
• How to solve problems creatively
• Make sure you represent the problem in the right way!
• Dont assume restrictions that arent stipulated
• Do represent everything explicit in the question
• Do compare the structure of the problem with similar ones
• Then generate lots of creative ideas with
• Associative techniques
• Analytic techniques
• Roleplaying

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Problem Solving and Creative Thinking

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Problem Solving and Creative Thinking. Problem Solving. What is a Problem? A problem arises when a living creature has a goal but does not know how this goal is to be reached.

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Problem Solving What is a Problem? A problem arises when a living creature has a goal but does not know how this goal is to be reached. [A problem exists] whenever one cannot go from the given situation to the desired situation simply by action. [K. Dunker, On Problem Solving, (1945) p. 1] What is Problem Solving? Problem Solving is the process of working out or discovering how to reach such a goal.

What is creative thinking? Creative thinking is the process of generating novel ideas and alternative courses of action, no matter how good those ideas and alternatives might be. Creative thinking should not be seen as an alternative to critical thinking When you have recognised a problem, then you should employ creative thinking to produce some options for solving the problem, then you should employ critical thinking If you haven’t come up with enough options to begin with, then your critical thinking decision procedure might produce the wrong result… a dangerous result!

Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Problem Solving Creative thinking supports critical thinking … While critical thinking focuses on step-by-step, linear processes aimed at arriving at a correct answer, creative thinking begins with possibility, multiple ideas, and suspended judgement. It might be said that creative thinking supports the ideas with which critical thinking works. Thus, even though these two kinds of thinking work in different ways, they actually support one another and aim at the same ultimate goal, which is to solve a problem … At the beginning of the process, creative methods are used to examine the problem environment, generate ideas, and make associations. Then the analysis and judgment faculties are brought into play, and the possibilities are analyzed for a possible solution. [Robert Harris, CB pp. 115-6]

Who is this man?

Archimedes Great inventor, mathematician etc. The Screw  The Lever

Archimedes Helped protect Syracuse from the Romans in the siege of 213BC The Mirror The Claw

Archimedes’ puzzle • Did the smithy replace some of the kings gold with silver? • How did Archimedes find out? • (Not Archimedes style to torture the smithy)

Solution to Archimedes’ puzzle. • The solution, which occurred when he stepped into a public bath and caused it to overflow, was to put a weight of gold equal to the crown, and known to be pure, into a bowl which was filled with water to the brim. Then the gold would be removed and the king’s crown put in, in its place. An alloy of lighter silver would increase the bulk of the crown and cause the bowl to overflow. [Vitruvius, De Architectura] • And the wreath was impure!

Creative thinking! • It was very useful to Archimedes • He was well respected and treated in Syracuse • Marcellus, the Roman general, ordered his life to be spared when Syracuse finally fell • But his obsession with maths was ultimately his downfall! • Can we be like Archimedes? • Can we learn to be creative thinkers?

4 Methods for Generating Ideas • Associative Techniques • Analytic Techniques • Brainstorming • Role Playing

Associative Techniques • Compare something familiar to something unfamiliar. • Close analogy e.g. apples and pears • Remote analogy e.g. Pringles • Forced analogy…

Forced Analogy 1 • The problem: recreating that dazzling 360 degree panoramic holiday view • The forced analogy: a wreath • The answer!

Forced Analogy 2 • The problem: vertigo • The forced analogy: swimming • The answer!

Forced Analogy 3 • The problem: Carrying lots of shopping when its raining • The forced analogy: a tennis player • The answer!

Analytic Techniques • Breaking a problem down into smaller parts • E.g. How can I make the All Blacks win the Rugby World Cup? • Vital components of the problem: • Henry: Just one:ensuring the ABs perform to their capacity • Hence the 4 Rs of Henry’s regime • Rest • Rotation • Relationships within team are friendly • Really discreet signaling during matches

Analytic Techniques • Unfortunately (as we know), Henry didn’t analyse the problem thoroughly. • He missed a vital component of the problem: • The Barnes Factor

Analytic Techniques • Good analytic techniques will help to ensure that all of the important components of the problem are addressed

Brainstorming • Deliberately set about coming up with alternatives, and write them all down, no matter what. • No idea is a bad idea (at least just yet) • Edward de Bono 6 hats – green hat time • One company generated 2,200 ideas in one day!

Roleplaying • Roleplaying. Attempt to simulate aspects of the problem and proposed solutions. Try to imagine details of the relevant outcomes after your choice has been made, and attempt to put yourself in the shoes of other people. • A good method for gathering information and gaining perspective • E.g. Theoretical vs. practical lecturing • E.g. Customers-eye-view of displays • E.g. Hand-out-of-the-car-window aerodynamics

But Archimedes was not just a creative thinker... • He was also a prolific problem solver • So, how can we harness these 4 idea creation techniques to help us solve problems? • Ideas should be generated after the problem has been properly understood and represented

The Main Message Solving real problems is a two step process: Model Solution Problem In order to generate potentially fruitful ideas, and thereby make it more likely that you solve your problem, make sure you represent the problem in the right way.

The Lights Example • One and only one of the switches (A, B & C)on the outside of the room turns on all of the lights (x, y & z) in the room • From outside, you cannot see into the room • The wiring is hidden from view • You are not allowed to damage any of the property • Is there a way of knowing for sure which switch turns the lights on? • Once you enter the room, you cannot leave again to rearrange the switches xyz C B A

The Lights Example Switches: Possible arrangements: A 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 B 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 C 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 – on, 0 – off

The Bird-Train Problem (Posner, 1973) • Station 1 and Station 2 are 50 miles apart on a straight train track • Train 1 leaves Station 1 at the same time that Train 2 leaves Station 2 • Both trains travel at 25 miles per hour toward the other station • The bird starts directly above Train 1 and flies above the track until it reaches Train 2. Then it flies back to Train 1 etc. • The bird flies at 230 miles per hour • How far has the bird flown by the time the trains meet?

The Bird-Train Problem (Posner, 1973)

The Drop Block Problem What will happen to the block of wood when the person lets go of it?

The Drop Block Problem The block will drop down as it is drawn to earth by gravity

The Drop Block Problem … so long as the person is on earth.

The Drop Block Problem It will float up if the person is under water.

The Drop Block Problem And it will go nowhere (or a little bit sideways?!) if the person is in space.

So, how can I best represent a problem? Suggestion 1: Drop presuppositions that aren’t explicit in the original statement of the problem

The Nine Dot Problem (Maier, 1931) • Can you connect all of the dots with just 4 straight lines? • You cannot take your pen off the paper • You can’t use a ridiculously big pen • The second line must start where the first line finished. The third line must start where the second line finished etc. • Imagine the dots are drawn on a flat an immovable surface • The solution…

Solution to The Nine Dot Problem (Maier, 1931)

How can I best represent a problem? Suggestion 1: Drop presuppositions that aren’t explicit in the original statement of the problem.

A Terrible Accident • There was a terrible accident on the motorway coming into Wellington • A man was killed on impact and his son was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries • At the hospital, the surgeon saw the boy and said: “I can’t operate, that’s my son” • What is going on here? • Many of us assume that surgeons have to be male, making us come up with crazy answers for a simple question

How can I best represent a problem? Suggestion 1: Drop presuppositions that aren’t explicit in the original statement of the problem. Suggestion 2: Make sure you represent everything explicit in the original statement of the problem.

2 old high school math club pals meet up after many years On a street somewhere: Ted: All three of my sons celebrate their birthday today. Can you tell me how old each one is? (Ted is a bit weird) Fred: Yes, but you have to tell me something about them… Ted: The product of their ages is 36. Fred: I need more info… Ted: The sum of their ages is equal to the number of windows in the building next to us… Fred: I need more info… Ted: My oldest son has blue eyes. Fred: That is sufficient!  Can Fred really know how old Ted’s sons are? How?

2 old high school math club pals meet up after many years • Age of the first son: x • Age of the second son: y • Age of the third son: z • Safe assumption: x ≥ y ≥ z

2 old high school math club pals meet up after many years “The product of their ages is 36”: xyz • 1 1 • 2 1 • 3 1 • 9 4 1 • 9 2 2 • 6 6 1 • 6 3 2 • 4 3 3

2 old high school math club pals meet up after many years “The sum of their ages is equal to the number of windows in the building next to us…” xyz • + 1 + 1 = 38 • + 2 + 1 = 21 • + 3 + 1 = 16 • 9 + 4 + 1 = 14 • 9 + 2 + 2 = 13 • 6 + 6 + 1 = 13 • 6 + 3 + 2 = 11 • 4 + 3 + 3 = 10

How can I best represent a problem? Suggestion 2: Make sure you represent everything explicit in the original statement of the problem.

There are five houses, each of a different color and inhabited by men of different nationalities, with one unique pet, drink, and car. Some facts are given: 1. The Englishman lives in the red house. 2. The Spaniard owns the dog. 3. The man in the green house drinks cocoa. 4. The Ukrainian drinks eggnog. 5. The green house is immediately to the right (your right) of the ivory house. 6. The owner of the Oldsmobile also owns snails. 7. The owner of the Ford lives in the yellow house. 8. The man in the middle house drinks milk. 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house on the left. 10. The man who owns the Chevrolet lives in the house next to the house where the man owns a fox. 11. The Ford owner's house is next to the house where the horse is kept. 12. The Mercedes-Benz owner drinks orange juice. 13. The Japanese drives a Volkswagen. 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. Who owns the Zebra?

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Creative Problem Solving with Six Thinking Hats. How to use Edward deBono’s parallel thinking in problem solving. Gary Dichtenberg CyberSkills, Inc. Goals of this program. Define parallel thinking Identify each of the six hats Learn how to ask a good question

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Creative Problem Solving

Creative Problem Solving. Chapter 13. “ Make it a practice to keep on the lookout for novel and interesting ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea only has to be original in its adaptation to the problem you are working on.” —Thomas Alva Edison.

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CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING. Prof. Vidyanand Jha IIM Calcutta December 7, 2000. PROBLEM SOLVING. Problem - a discrepancy current state-desired state Decisions- Choices Two or more alternatives Decision Making process of choice making. General model of problem solving. Identify problem

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CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING. Introductions Purpose Learning Objectives. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING. PURPOSE: To develop the awareness and the skills necessary to solve problems creatively. LEARNING OBJECTIVES. 1. Define creative problem solving.

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Creative Problem Solving. Visualization. Visualization. “Seeing with the mind’s eye” can expand creative thinking and problem solving. Dorothy A. Sisk, Professor, Lamar University. Memory. Human Brain: Short-term memory Long-term memory Information processor

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Thinking and Problem Solving

Thinking and Problem Solving. What is thinking?. Thinking is the mental activity that is involved in the manipulation and understanding of information. Units of Thought: Concept : group of objects, events, or ideas that share similar characteristics Concept of “mom,” “dad,” “soccer game”

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Thinking and Problem Solving. The Basics of Thinking. Thinking: changing reorganizing, and using info stored in your memory to create new information Convergent Thinking : systematic attempt to reach a specific goal/answer. Used to solve math problems and accomplish personal goals.

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Thinking and Problem Solving. Week 2: Making Connections . The TAP TM System Training Portal. Objective. Teachers will connect thinking and problem solving and develop a lesson incorporating both the process and the product. . Agenda. Evaluation Long Range Plan & Thinking Evaluation

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Creative Problem Solving. Adapted from “CPS For Kids” written by Bob Eberle and Bob Stanish.

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Thinking and Problem Solving. “Our job is not to make up anyone’s mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of decision-making so intense, you can only escape by thinking.” - Author Unknown. The TAP TM System Training Portal. Reflective Thinking… How did you implement?.

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Skills critical analysis, problem solving, and creative thinking

Ria Hanewald, School of Education Title: “Developing graduate attributes through collaborative online concept mapping”.

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Creative Thinking, Strategic Thinking, Innovative Thinking & Creative Problem Solving

Creative Thinking, Strategic Thinking, Innovative Thinking & Creative Problem Solving. Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP, DLA. Intro/ Overview. Day One. Don ’ t Just Sit There. Intro/ Overview. Day One. Don ’ t Just Sit There. Tools & Techniques. Intro/ Overview. Day One.

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Creative problem solving

Creative problem solving. The art and mindset of hacking. WHO?. ME. WHO?. ?. YOU. Hacking. Hacking. creative solution illegal computer access neat trick …. Right and wrong. Legality Ethics. Problem 1. Solve each equation by adding one straight line. history. Phreaks Morris Worm.

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Thinking and Problem Solving. Fact #1. The brain is awesome – and we know nothing about it. No, but really… there are reasons she will be forever alone. Girl’s got some moves?. How is all that possible – and you can speak and pick up a pencil “…without thinking about it?”.

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Creative Problem Solving. Adeyl Khan (Ayn) BPS 440. We are managers!. Why CPS? Tackle complex problems Encourage innovation Implement new solutions Is creativity the key to management success?. successful managers. The Goal: Understand CPS. Introduction to the essential skills

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Creative Problem Solving. TRIZ. Problem Solving Methods. DMAIC – Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control DFSS – Design for Six Sigma PDCA – Plan, Do, Check, Act PDSA – Plan, Do, Study, Act TQM, PR, Kaizen, Pugh, WB, . . . . TRIZ – Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.

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Creative Problem Solving. Brainstorming & Nominal Group Technique. Brainstorming :. Introduced by Alex Osborn, 1939 Creative problem-solving technique Atmosphere free of criticism All members must participate Implemented during the “solutions step” of the Standard Agenda.

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Creative Thinking, Strategic Thinking & Creative Problem Solving

Creative Thinking, Strategic Thinking & Creative Problem Solving. Robert Alan Black, Ph.D. Intro/ Overview. Don ’ t Just Sit There. Tools & Techniques Divergent. 1. Summary & Integration. 2. 8. Learning Teaching Training C.T. Creative Thinking Styles. 3. 7. 4. 6. Creative

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Our Creative Problem Solving course will help you to come up with many innovative ideas, to crafi those ideas and apply them in your own life. You will also develop your skills in creative expression, both verbally and visually and learn how to see problems from diGerent perspectives. The Creative Problem Solving course will equip you with a creative process that you can apply in academic and work contexts or when pursuing your own personal creative projects.

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