Creativity Enhancing Concepts

Fluent & Flexible Thinking Fluency:  produce many new ideas quiclky
Flexibility: produce ideas that cover a wide variety of possibilities
Value-Focused Thinking 
 Fundamental objectives
Means objectives
Decision Context (Systems Approach)
Questioning Attitude
Objectives <--Why?
How?-->		 Alternatives
Idea Checklists
Idea-Sparking Questions
Strategy-Generation Table        Another Example
Brainstorming (Time limit is the key)
Strictly postpone all criticism until after the brainstorming period
generate many ideas 
welcome freewheeling 
seek combination and improvement of ideas 
Problem Reconfiguration
 ("Lateral Thinking")
 View the problem as others might see it
Turn the problem upside down 
Expand scope of the problem (the systems approach) 
Reduce scope of the problem (divide & conquer)
Question your implicit assumptions
Shift emphasis from one part of problem to another 
Combine part of one idea with part of another
Metaphorical Thinking Close Analogy
Far-Out Alanogy
        Personal Analogy
        Fantasy Analogy
        Forced Analogy 
        Augury (Astrology, Tarot, Tea leaves, Bibliomancy)

Nominal Group Technique

 Silent writing
round robin
clarification (nonjudgmental)
discussion
approval voting
Creative Conflict
 		 Devil's Advocat & Dialectics
Plausible Deniability