Integrated creative problem solving : delft studies on innovating / Jan Buijs, Han van der Meer ; cartoons and cover design, Studio Noodweer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buijs, Jan.

Contributor:

Meer, Han van der.

Studio Noodweer.

Series:

Delft studies on innovating Integrated creative problem solving

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Problem solving.

Creative thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hague, Netherlands : Eleven International Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Integrated Creative Problem Solving is the second book in the Delft Studies on Innovating series. This series is intended to give innovation/design researchers, who are connected to the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of the Delft University of Technology, a platform to share their knowledge with a wider audience. Creativity is one of the building blocks of the first book in this series (The Delft Innovation Method: A Design Thinker's Guide to Innovation - ISBN 978 94 9094 747 7). Therefore, it seems logical to have the second book of the series go into details about creativity, creative problem solving, and organizing creative sessions. The central theme of the book is integration. Its approach seeks to integrate people and process, process and techniques, techniques with content, ideas with implementation, and, when all are combined, there should be commitment and fun. Integrated Creative Problem Solving demonstrates how creative sessions are organized and how they should function smoothly. The session's organizer - a specialist called the 'Creative Facilitator' (metaphorically known as a 'juggler') - uses creativity techniques within a group to dive into the process of serious problem solving. The 'Creative Facilitator'/'juggler' plays with cones or balls (lookalikes for ideas) together with the group. During this play, the balls can change into cones or cubes, the weight and the materials will change, as well as the stickiness of the surfaces of the cones, the cubes, and the balls. And, during all these unexpected changes, the show must go on. Integration for this juggler means balancing all the different aspects of the process of creative problem solving. (Series: Delft Studies on Innovating)

Contents:

""COVER""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Setting the Stage ""; ""Chapter 2: The Historical Development of Creative Problem Solving ""; ""2.1 Introduction ""; ""2.2 From One Creative Diamond to a Series of Creative Diamonds ""; ""2.3 Critical Reflections on the CPS Domain ""

""2.4 Coming Back on Iterations """"2.5 Concluding Remarks ""; ""Chapter 3: Overview of the Basic Creativity Techniques ""; ""3.1 Introduction ""; ""3.2 Creativity Techniques for Diverging ""; ""3.2.1 Diverging for Finding the Problem ""; ""3.2.2 Diverging for Getting Ideas ""

""The Associative Family """"The Confrontational Family ""; ""Metaphors and Analogies ""; ""The Systematic Family ""; ""3.2.3 Diverging for Finding Solutions ""; ""3.3 Creativity Techniques for Clustering ""; ""3.4 Creativity Techniques for Converging ""; ""Goal of Converging ""

""Criteria for Idea Selection """"Guiding Rules for the Converging Stages ""; ""Some Creativity Techniques for Converging ""; ""Hits or Dots ""; ""Itemized Response Family of Converging Techniques ""; ""Multi-Criteria Analysis ""

""3.5 Concluding Remarks: Rules to Live by, or Rules to Know and to Sometimes Consciously Ignore? """"Chapter 4: Delft IDE Perspective and Context ""; ""4.1 Introduction ""; ""4.2 Teaching Creative Facilitation ""; ""4.3 Confusion about Types of Sessions ""

""4.4 Concluding Remarks: An Own Delft Way of Doing CPS? ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 17, 2013).

ISBN:

94-6094-805-7

9789460948053