Tag: problem solving

So many people have asked for my list of Design Thinking vocabulary from my workshops so I’m posting the complete (and growing) list here. If you have other words or

Understanding and articulating the problem (“a less than ideal state” says Gene Agre in The Concept of a Problem (1982) is the most crucial step in creative thinking. But, it’s

Change Your Perspective is Post #1 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins here. The Problem: Starting

So much creativity – if not business overall – is undestanding the problem enough to be able to eliminate it (and if not get rid of it, then either to

Every class I teach, whether it’s about any topic of business or generally about creativity, comes down to one word: the problem. In short, understand the problem, create an idea

Quick! What’s the definition of an idea? It’s a word we use all the time, but when it comes to defining it concisely, it’s not so easy to be immediately

Let’s start by asking the most basic question. What is creativity? If that’s too big of a question to start, let’s start with an ‘easier’ question. Which of these two ‘coat