Table of Contents
- Leaders' Guide
- Methods
- Tools
- Teams and Other Human Factors
- Philosophy
- Definitions
Creativity Tools
In quality improvement, we often get stuck in patterns of thinking that keep leading us to old and easy-to-solve solutions. Provocative creativity tools can be used to stimulate new ideas and break out of traditional thinking.Here are some teachable modules on a few creativity tools:
- Analogies and Metaphors http://www.mkkey.com/publications2/PubAnalogies.htm
- Challenging Assumptions http://www.mkkey.com/publications2/PubAssumptions.htm
- Guided Imagery http://www.mkkey.com/publications2/PubGuidedImag.htm
- Magazine Cut-and-Paste http://www.mkkey.com/publications2/PubCutandPaste.htm
- Random Word http://www.mkkey.com/publications2/RandomWord.htm
For a compendium of other downloadable creativity tools, please refer to:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_CT.htm. Be sure and note Edward deBono's Six Hats Thinking (http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods_bono_six_thinking_hats.html)
