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Creative Approaches to Problem Solving
A Framework for Innovation and Change
Third Edition
- Scott G. Isaksen - Creative Problem Solving Group, Inc.
- K. Brian Dorval - Think First Serve, Inc.
- Donald J. Treffinger
January 2010 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Everything your students need to solve problems, manage change and deliver innovation using the Creative Problem Solving framework
This text is the most comprehensive and contemporary overview and description of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) available today. Friendly and highly practical for a broad base of researchers and practitioners, the book provides a framework, language, guidelines, and set of easy-to-use tools for understanding challenges, generating ideas, and transforming promising ideas into action.
New and Hallmark Features
- The authors expanded their emphasis on CPS as a flexible, dynamic process that enables users to select and apply CPS tools, components, and stages in a meaningful way that meets their actual needs.
- A framework for problem solving that has been tested and applied across ages, settings, and cultures allows readers to apply a common approach to process across many traditional "boundaries."
- Specific objectives in each chapter provide a clear focus for instruction or independent learning.
- Practical case studies introduced at the beginning of each chapter and then completed as a "rest of the story" toward the end of the chapter provide an application anchor for the reader.
- New enhanced graphics: Updated and refreshed tables, figures, and illustrative images provide "pictures" to go along with the authors' words.
A companion Web site with additional resources can be found at www.sagepub.com/Isaksen3e.
Chapter One: Creative Approaches to Problem Solving
Chapter Two: Creative Problem Solving
Chapter Three: Understanding the Challenge
Chapter Four: Generating Ideas
Chapter Five: Preparing for Action
Chapter Six: Planning Your Approach to CPS
Chapter 7: People as Creative Problem Solvers
Chapter 9: The Role of Content
Chapter 10: Cps as a Change Method
Chapter 11: Designing Your Way Through CPS
Chapter 12: Applying CPS
Additional Resources
An Invitation
Putting This Chapter to Work
Fits well with our course and has a resource site.
Business Administration Dept, Brenau University
March 29, 2012
This book contains a broad range of tools for generating, selecting and evaluating ideas that would lead to the planning of actions. I have integrated this into my Ideas, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Unit. We stated this book as: Items for purchase (core textbooks).
Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Int. Busi, Manchester Metropolitan University
September 30, 2011
At this moment in time, this seems to be the only book that I have found for years that is written about generating ideas and the post-actions and activities. I will need to find ways to integrate this book into my units and this will be great for students to read learning. Nevertheless, I need time to properly read and integrate this book into my course.
Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Int. Busi, Manchester Metropolitan University
March 14, 2011
This is an excellent reference book to anyone looking at implementing the CPS model.as it also provides interesting and insightful reading into the theory and the application in order to make CPS a success.
The Edward de Bono Istitute, University of Malta
March 2, 2011
This is not a bad book but it perhaps more appropriate to professional courses rather than essentially academic ones. I would use it on the CMI courses and have used it on the BA Hons Leadership top-up program.
Business School, Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
November 13, 2010
A welcome supplement to "Creative Problem Solving: An Introduction" - as clear, concise and accessible book as that is (I refer to the 4th Edition publish in 2005).
If you want an expansion on CPS methodology that is both meaningful and applicable, then this book is extremely valuable. The framework is linked to practise with lots of case studies.
I will be recommending this to my students.
ICE House Project, Cornwall College
August 22, 2010
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1 - Creative Approaches to Problem Solving
Chapter 7 - People as Creative Problem Solvers