Creative Approaches to Problem Solving: A Framework for Innovation and Change

Creative Approaches to Problem Solving: A Framework for Innovation and Change

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<p><strong>Everything your students need to solve problems, manage change and deliver innovation using the Creative Problem Solving framework <br /></strong><br />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. <br /><br /><strong>New and Hallmark Features</strong> </p><ul><li>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. </li><li>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." </li><li>Specific objectives in each chapter provide a clear focus for instruction or independent learning. </li><li>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. </li><li>New enhanced graphics: Updated and refreshed tables, figures, and illustrative images provide "pictures" to go along with the authors' words. </li></ul><p>A companion Web site with additional resources can be found at www.sagepub.com/Isaksen3e.</p>