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”) is a crucial step in creative thinking, but it’s also important to know if you are fixing the cause or

For a client project, I was going through an old file of different creative methodologies or problem-solving techniques. They range from well-known ones (like the Osborn-Parnes model) to more obscure

As a member of the Outside the Box Thinkers group on LinkedIn, the moderator asked for suggestions to start a collection of the best books on creativity. Any list of

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, I’ll give you another question. Which of these two ‘coat hangers’