An Anxious Creative

It was interesting this week to discover that creative problem solving was a named process created by Alex Osborn and Sid Parnes in the 1940s. Despite its age, this process is still around. It has also inspired several modern updates. This creative problem-solving process is usually used to generate innovative and effective solutions to problems, obstacles, and challenges. It is a process that helps to encourage creative thinking and helps to discover new solutions that […]

As we saw last week (see here if you missed it), there are specific steps in order to come up with creative and innovative solutions. There are also ways that these steps can go horribly wrong and not get the results that are needed or wanted. Things to watch out for in general: First, each step must be balanced with the others. It is easy to get caught in an overthinking cycle at each of […]

Design thinking: Is a variation on creative problem solving by combining steps and renaming them: This method is often used for design as the name suggests but is also used in business to come up with creative solutions to problems faced in business situations.   These next techniques may help at one or more stage of any of the creative problem-solving methods: Creating a problem story: This technique helps to identify the problem by creating […]