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Summary:

"This text is the most comprehensive and contemporary overview and description of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) available today. Accessible and highly practical for a broad base of researchers and practitioners, the book provides a framework, a language, guidelines, and a set of easy-to-use tools for understand challenges, generating ideas, and transforming promising ideas into action"--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

• Creative approaches to problem solving
• Creative problem solving
• Understanding the challenge
• Generating ideas
• Preparing for action
• Planning your approach to CPS
• People as creative problem solvers
• The context for CPS
• The role of content
• CPS as a change method
• Designing your way through CPS
• Applying CPS.

Author/Creator:

Isaksen, Scott G. , author

Contributors:

Stead-Dorval, K. Brian , author

Treffinger, Donald J. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Creative approaches to problem solving: a framework for innovation and change [by Isaksen, S.G.]

Subjects:

Problem solving

Group problem solving

Creative thinking

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index.

Physical Description:

xxv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

BF449 .I73 2011

ISBNs:

9781412977739 (paperback)
1412977738 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009031779

OCLC Numbers:

351322188