Today’s businesses become overcomplex, and the comprehensive solutions to many complex problems require both cross-domain knowledge and divergent thought processes.
Creative problem solving involves a mindset, skillset, and toolset that fosters innovation and effective solutions.
Creative Problem-Solving Mindset
-Critical Thinking: Using deliberative reasoning and impartial scrutiny of information to arrive at a possible solution to a problem.
-Divergent Thinking: This leads to new information or previously undiscovered solutions and demands flexibility, originality, fluency, and inventiveness.
-Convergent Thinking: Narrowing down multiple possibilities to find a single, best answer to a problem.
-Autonomy: Creative individuals are typically independent and nonconformist in their thoughts and actions.
-Curiosity and Problem Seeking: A need to seek novelty and an ability to pose unique questions are crucial.
-Openness to Experience: Creative people show an interest in paradox, alternative, and unconventional wisdom, possibly because they are challenged by overly restrictive rules or common beliefs.
-Intuition: High intelligence is common in creative persons, and they can meet problems rationally, but intellect does not rule at the expense of intuition.
-Flexibility: Overcoming functional fixedness, which is the inability to realize that something known to have a particular use may also be used to perform other functions, is important.
Creative Problem-Solving Skillset
-Preparation: Assembling and exploring resources, making preliminary decisions about their value in solving the problem.
-Decision-making: Resources fall into place, and a definite decision is reached about the result or solution.
-Implementation: It is important to evolve the emergent properties or events to practice the dynamic implementation.
-Verification: Making relatively minor modifications in committing ideas to final form.
-Fluency: The ability to think of many ideas rapidly.
-Flexibility: The capacity to use ideas and tools in unusual ways.
-Originality: The capacity to think of novel ideas and products.
Creative Problem Solving Toolset
-Brainstorming: Generating a large quantity of ideas without over-judgment.
-Mind Mapping: Visually organizing information to see connections and possibilities.
-SCAMPER: A checklist that helps you think of changes you can make to an existing product to create a new one (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, Reverse).
-Torrance Test of Creative Thinking: A means of assessment that accounts for fluency, flexibility, and originality.
Today’s businesses become overcomplex, and the comprehensive solutions to many complex problems require both cross-domain knowledge and divergent thought processes. It’s important to understand the real problems, put the right talent with the right expertise to solve the right problem creatively.
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