Celebrating 50 Years of Reflective Practice: Versions of Creative Problem Solving – notes
Alex Osborn – Seven- Step CPS Process from Osborn’s Applied Imagination
- Orientation
- Preparation
- Analysis
- Hypothesis
- Incubation
- Synthesis
- Verification
After 1982 tools were provided for convergent thinking. Prior to this point, divergent thinking was the main thinking model.
Mess-Finding
- highlighted the importance of obstacles and outcomes
- ownership of the problem became an important factor
Effective problem solving requires people to consider more than facts
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