MGMT 3900

MGMT 3900

1. Ambiguity

   • Consult an Oracle Technique
   • Paradoxes

2. Phase 3 Generate Ideas

   • Convergent Thinking
   • Divergent thinking
     • Problem reversal
     • Force Field Analysis
     • What if technique
   • Group flow
   • Brainstorming
     • Go for quantity
     • Piggyback
     • Collaboration
     • Rules of Brainstorming
       • Have fun
       • Wild and crazy
       • Fear of being judged
     • No evaluating
       • Deep listening
         • Listen first
   • Extensive list of potential solutions

3. Phase 1 Problem Definition Problem Deliniation

   • Mind Mapping
   • Progressive abstraction technique
     • 5Ws/H technique
   • Communication
   • Slow down
     • Problem Statement
       • Goal
         • Success

4. Whack on the Side of the Head

   • Creativity Roles
     • Artist
       • What if?
     • Warrior
       • Implementing self
     • Explorer
     • Judge
       • Thats not logical
       • Right answer
     • Brain dominance
       • Left brain
         • Logic
           • Hard thinking
       • Right Brain
         • Intuition
           • Imagination
             • Soft thinking
           • Intuitive thinking
             • Intuitive CPS
       • Limbic system
         • Neo-cortex

5. Phase 2 Compile Relevant Information

   • Investigate the problem
   • Understand the problem in depth
   • Search for data
     • Insight

6. Phase 5 Develop Implementation plan

   • Change
     • Managing Change
     • How will people react to the change
       • Uncertainty
       • Threatened Self-interests
       • Conflicting perceptions
       • Feelings of personal loss
       • Failure
   • Deliver results

7. Innovation Styles Profile

   • Modifying style
     • Analytical thinking
   • Exploring Style
   • Experimenting style
   • Visioning style
     • Vision

8. Multiple Intellegencies

   • Bodily-kinesthetic
   • Naturalist
   • Interpersonal
   • Intrapersonal
   • Logical/mathmatical
   • Verbal-linguistic
   • Visual-spacial
   • Musical

9. Group creativity

   • Collaborative team
   • Conformity
     • Group think
   • Brainwriting technique
   • Diversity
     • Demonstrate respect
       • extend trust
   • Task team
   • Leadership
     • Fear of losing control
     • Change management
     • Clarify members & instructors expectations
     • Ownership
     • Managing creativity
   • concensus
   • Trust
     • Waves of trust
     • Creative confidence
     • Keep commitments
       • Practice accountability to each other
   • Don't drop the ball

10. Organizational creativity

    • Paradigms

11. Individual creativity

    • Habit bound thinking
    • Fear of the first step
      • I'm not creative
        • Mental locks
          • The right answer
          • Follow the rules
          • Be practical
          • Thats not my area
          • Don't be foolish
          • Avoid ambiguity
          • To Err is wrong
    • Concentration
      • Decrease Distractions
    • idea finding self
      • Problem finding self
    • Idea sensing self
    • environmental resources
    • Singing in your own key

12. Play

    • Play is frivolous
    • Play the fool
      • Laugh at it
    • Incubation

13. Phase 4 Evaluating and prioritizing ideas

    • Analytic CPS
    • Improve quality of ideas
      • Get it better
    • Feasability
      • Constraints
      • Confront reality
    • Reduce number of solutions
    • Combine potential solutions
    • CHOOSE AN IDEA

14. Creativity

    • 4 P's of Creativity
      • Person
      • Process
      • Press
      • Product
    • Creativity styles
      • Cougar's Conceptual blocks
        • Perceptual blocks
        • Emotional Blocks
        • Cultural blocks
          • Patterns
        • Environmental blocks
        • Intellectual blocks
    • Novel and useful
    • Innovation

15. Creative Problem Solving Process