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A four step Practical Creative Problem Solving Process

'Solve that Problem' is a complete on-line web-based creativity techniques e-notebook. Organised around a four step creativity process, learn the secrets of exploring challenges, generating and evaluating ideas and getting them implemented. Written in 45 concise sections, the Creativity Techniques E-notebook contains everything you need written in a clear, simple but powerful format.

Central to the whole process there's an extra section devoted to explaining how your brain ticks - your 'Brain Operating System'.

Problem Exploration
Idea Generation
1. Goals - setting outcomes
    Well-formed outcomes
2. Reframe - say it a different way
    Rephrase exercise
    Lipstick
3. Assumption
    Breaking Assumption exercise
    The Pink-Bus
    Breaking basic assumptions
4. Chunk-down - Why and what's stopping Us?
    Simplify exercise
    Staff retention example
5. Facts
    Elephants
1. Changing Things - Poor Creativity
2. Better Brainstorming
    Crazy Ideas, Concept Extraction
3. Mexican BrainWave
4. Thinking Negatively comes natural
5. Start in a new place
    Random Word, picture, associating
6. Create New Patterns
    Random Combinations
7. Metaphors
8. Prompt lists - SCAMPER, 5W's & H
9. Come to your senses
    Storytelling, models, collage
    Mindmap, Spider Diagram, Cause-effect
10. Environments
11. Using metaplanning
Evaluating Ideas creativity techniques Doing It!
1. Being selective
2. Judgement
    Rules of Judgement
    Framing a Problem
3. Group Decision Making
    Groupthink
4. Evaluation Framework
    Framework detail
    Evaluation Grid
    How Intuitive are you exercise
5. Decision Matrix
    Decision Matrix exercise
6. Paired Comparison Analysis
7. Killing Ideas
1. A Multilayered Box - Organisational Culture
2. Just get on with it
    Don't over specify, Make a prototype
    Can Do, Don't Talk Smart
3. Organisational Snakes & Ladders
    Stakeholders, Force Field Analysis
    Find an Innovation Champion
    Risky or What
    Perceptual Mapping and positions
    In other people's shoes?
4. Storyboarding
5. Getting ideas accepted
6. Patterns make companies blind
7. Innovation Gems
Brain Operating System
1. Techniques only go so far
2. Brain - The Physical Side
    Brainworks - neurons, hemispheres
    Interferring exercise
3. Maximise Brainpower
    Fun, play and bananas
    Can you play exercise?
4. Your internal world
    Filters on reality
5. Brain Software
    An evaluator or generator exercise
    Metaprograms
6. The secret's in the language!
    Language Meta-model
7. Structure of experience
    Sensory (VAK) preference exercise
    Changing experience qualities exercise
8. I believe
    Beliefs
    Changing beliefs exercise
9. Motivation for a Change
10. Making Personal Change
     Six Step Reframe
11. Mirror Neurons

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