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Thursday, June 22, 2023

TRIZ - Creative Thinking for Inventing and Innovating



New Books and Articles on TRIZ
2016 to

Systematic Innovation Toolkit
March 25, 2016
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/systematic-innovation-toolkit-prashant-joglekar






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40 Inventive principles of TRIZ


Described in Part 2-3 of the Book  The Innovation Algorithm

Also See

40 Principles: TRIZ Keys to Innovation

Genrich Altshuller, Lev Shulyak, Steven Rodman
Technical Innovation Center, Inc., 2002 - 135 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=mqlGEZgn5cwC

The book has one page for each principle with pictures illustrating the explanation of the principle.


Principle 1: Segmentation:

Principle 2: Taking out or Extraction:

Principle 3: Local quality: development; local anaesthesia.

Principle 4: Asymmetry:

Principle 5: Merging, Consolidation or combining:

Principle 6: Universality:

Principle 7: Nested doll:

Principle 8: Anti-weight:

Principle 9: Preliminary anti-action:


Principle 10: Preliminary action:

Principle 11: Beforehand cushioning:


Principle 12: Equipotentiality:


Principle 13: The other way round:


Principle 14: Spheroidality – Curvature:


Principle 15: Dynamics:


Principle 16 : Partial or Excessive actions:


Principle 17: Another dimension:


Principle 18: Mechanical vibration:


Principle 19: Periodic action:


Principle 20: Continuity of useful action:


Principle 21: Skipping or Rushing Through:


Principle 22 : Blessing in disguise - Harm into benefit:

Principle 23: Feedback:


Principle 24: Intermediary/Mediator:

Principle 25: Self-Service:


Principle 26: Copying:


Principle 27: Cheap short-living objects:


Principle 28: Mechanics substitution:


Principle 29: Pneumatics and hydraulics:


Principle 30: Flexible shells and thin films:


Principle 31: Porous materials:


Principle 32: Color changes:


Principle 33: Homogeneity:


Principle 34: Rejecting, Discarding – Recovering, Regeneration:


Principle 35: Parameter Changes:


Principle 36 : Phase transitions:


Principle 37: Thermal expansion:


Principle 38 : Accelerated oxidation:

Principle 39 : Inert atmosphere:

Principle 40: Composite materials:


More Details

Principle 1: Segmentation:

Segmentation is a powerful tool for problem-solving and innovation. It involves breaking an object down into smaller, independent parts to increase its value and functionality.


Principle 2: Taking out or Extraction:
Take out the unnecessary portions of a product or extracting the most necessary portions.

Principle 3: Local quality: development; local anaesthesia.

Principle 4: Asymmetry:

Principle 5: Merging, Consolidation or combining:

Principle 6: Universality:

Principle 7: Nested doll:

Principle 8: Anti-weight:

Principle 9: Preliminary anti-action:


Principle 10: Preliminary action:

Principle 11: Beforehand cushioning:


Principle 12: Equipotentiality:


Principle 13: The other way round:


Principle 14: Spheroidality – Curvature:


Principle 15: Dynamics:


Principle 16 : Partial or Excessive actions:


Principle 17: Another dimension:


Principle 18: Mechanical vibration:


Principle 19: Periodic action:


Principle 20: Continuity of useful action:


Principle 21: Skipping or Rushing Through:


Principle 22 : Blessing in disguise - Harm into benefit:

Principle 23: Feedback:


Principle 24: Intermediary/Mediator:

Principle 25: Self-Service:


Principle 26: Copying:


Principle 27: Cheap short-living objects:


Principle 28: Mechanics substitution:


Principle 29: Pneumatics and hydraulics:


Principle 30: Flexible shells and thin films:


Principle 31: Porous materials:


Principle 32: Color changes:


Principle 33: Homogeneity:


Principle 34: Rejecting, Discarding – Recovering, Regeneration:


Principle 35: Parameter Changes:


Principle 36 : Phase transitions:


Principle 37: Thermal expansion:


Principle 38 : Accelerated oxidation:

Principle 39 : Inert atmosphere:

Principle 40: Composite materials:


40 Principles - Pdf List
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470282199.app2/pdf

Examples of 40 principles - from automotive sector
https://triz-journal.com/40-principles-automotive/

https://www.triz.co.uk/files/U48432_40_inventive_principles_with_examples.pdf

http://www.triz40.com/aff_Principles_TRIZ.php


TRIZ: Systematic Innovation in Manufacturing

Yeoh Teong San, Yeoh Tay Jin, Song Chi Li
Firstfruits Publishing, 2009 - Engineering - 180 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=04Fn-KZCqNQC

The Ideal Result: What It Is and How to Achieve It

Jack Hipple
Springer Science & Business Media, 26-Jun-2012 -  208 pages


The Ideal Final Result introduces the TRIZ Inventive Problem Solving Process in a way that allows readers to make immediate use of its most basic concepts. The Ideal Final Result reviews the basics of this left brained, but at the same time, very creative process for problem solving that uses a basic algorithm developed through the study of millions of patents. As opposed to psychologically based tools relying on the generation of hundreds of ideas to be sorted through to find the few of value, TRIZ rigorously defines the problem and assists the problem owner in identifying the existing inventive principles that are already known to solve that class of problems. This book reviews the most basic of the TRIZ algorithm tools and provides templates for readers to use in analyzing their difficult problems and provides a mental framework for their solution. It also describes TRIZ techniques for basic strategic planning in a business sense.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Kq8OL2RMgTIC

TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving

Karen Gadd
John Wiley & Sons, 11-Feb-2011 - 504 pages


TRIZ is a brilliant toolkit for nurturing engineering creativity and innovation. This accessible, colourful and practical guide has been developed from problem-solving workshops run by Oxford Creativity, one of the world's top TRIZ training organizations started by Gadd in 1998. Gadd has successfully introduced TRIZ to many major organisations such as Airbus, Sellafield Sites, Saint-Gobain, DCA, Doosan Babcock, Kraft, Qinetiq, Trelleborg, Rolls Royce and BAE Systems, working on diverse major projects including next generation submarines, chocolate packaging, nuclear clean-up, sustainability and cost reduction.

Engineering companies are increasingly recognising and acting upon the need to encourage successful, practical and systematic innovation at every stage of the engineering process including product development and design. TRIZ enables greater clarity of thought and taps into the creativity innate in all of us, transforming random, ineffective brainstorming into targeted, audited, creative sessions focussed on the problem at hand and unlocking the engineers' knowledge and genius to identify all the relevant solutions.

For good design engineers and technical directors across all industries, as well as students of engineering, entrepreneurship and innovation, TRIZ for Engineers will help unlock and realise the potential of TRIZ. The individual tools are straightforward, the problem-solving process is systematic and repeatable, and the results will speak for themselves.
This highly innovative book:

Satisfies the need for concise, clearly presented information together with practical advice on TRIZ and problem solving algorithms
Employs explanatory techniques, processes and examples that have been used to train thousands of engineers to use TRIZ successfully
Contains real, relevant and recent case studies from major blue chip companies
Is illustrated throughout with specially commissioned full-colour cartoons that illustrate the various concepts and techniques and bring the theory to life
Turns good engineers into great engineers.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=C1YVvYIeBDIC


TRIZ - Systematic Innovation in Business & Management


Yeoh Teong San
First Fruits Sdn. Bhd., 01-Oct-2014 - Business & Economics - 238 pages


TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a powerful methodology which is able to improve a company's top-line and bottom-line. The top-line refers to a company's gross sales or revenues, whereas the bottom-line is a company's net earnings or net profits. The uniqueness of TRIZ is its ability to provide a structured and systematic approach, coupled with a suite of tools to enhance both top-line and bottom-line results. TRIZ can be used for creating new products to generate sales or making processes more efficient and effective to reduce operating costs and expenses.

TRIZ also enhances management capabilities by transforming a good manager to a great manager by acquiring tools to recognize contradictions when they arise and solve them without compromise.

In summary, TRIZ is a philosophy, process, and suite of tools. A total of 11 TRIZ tools (Function Analysis, Cause & Effect Chain Analysis, Perception Mapping, Ideality, S-curve, Trends of Engineering System Evolution, Trimming, Feature Transfer, Function Oriented Search, 9-Windows, and Engineering Contradiction) are discussed in detail.

Numerous examples and case studies are used to illustrate TRIZ applications in accelerating the ability to predict product, process, and service trends; identify unique value propositions for new products or services; circumvent patents of competitors; and solve age-old or chronic problems in both business and management fields.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=EwaEBwAAQBAJ


Innovation Management System - Presentation - Simon Tong
Hong Kong Society for Quality
http://www.hksq.org/Innovation-talk-20150124-Simon.pdf


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Friday, February 25, 2022

Industrial Engineering - Hand Tools, Cutting Tools and Machine Accessories for Productivity


As a task of process industrial engineering to increase productivity, industrial engineers have to investigate the use of various hand tools, cutting tools and other machine accessories that can increase productivity. Industrial engineers also have the responsibility to come out with new hand tools, cutting tools and accessories that increase productivity. Thus patents can be created by the industrial engineers in productivity improvement devices and features.
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Press Accessories and Upgrades to enhance production efficiency.


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The Bosch Professional accessory range offers clear benefits in terms of lifespan, speed, precision and more.
Work better, with Bosch.

Desk gadgets and accessories for ultimate productivity

Tech accessories to improve productivity and work efficiency 2021
https://protechfinder.com/tech-accessories-to-improve-productivity-and-work-efficiency/

Productivity Accessories

Products · ACCESSORIES
Helpful and high quality accessories to increase productivity and quality of your products (Textile Machines).



Search Google for "accessories for productivity"


2018

Use of various Attachments in Machine Tools

NPTEL Notes
http://nptel.ac.in/courses/112105127/pdf/LM-22.pdf

Modern tools for Artisan Staff of Civil Engineering Department for Increasing Productivity

2003 Guidebook by Indian Railways Center for Advanced Maintenance Technology
http://www.rdso.indianrailways.gov.in/works/uploads/File/Handbook%20on%20Modern%20tools%20for%20artisan%20staff%20of%20Civil%20Engineering%20Branch(1).pdf


About Hand Tools  by ILO
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/documents/genericdocument/wcms_101009.pdf


6 TIPS FOR BOOSTING PRODUCTIVITY WITH ATTACHMENTS

Cat® attachments enhance the productivity and utility of our machines, equipping them for a wide range of tasks and operating requirements, and providing total system solutions for any job application.
https://www.cat.com/en_US/articles/solutions/work-tools/6-tips-for-boosting-productivity-with-the-right-work-tools.html


Productivity Tools
Additional equipment options for No.5 Standard, No. 5 Saw Ready, no.4, No.3S, and No.3 machines.
http://www.mcelroy.com/fintube/tools.htm

Enhance productivity with reliable forklift accessories

When you incorporate accessories into your forklifts on the job, you get twice the power, with increased efficiency and versatility.
https://www.atlanticforkliftservices.com/forklift/enhance-productivity-reliable-forklift-accessories

3Refix...
… gives a definite position with fixed references
… minimal investment, cutting production costs
… fast setup with just a few simple manual actions
… the expanding mandrel minimises wear in the reference holes.

Increased productivity need not mean heavy investments in new machines.

3Refix is remarkably simple way to lay a solid foundation from which to view the future with confidence – tool up without indication and cut your production costs!
http://www.gfms.com/s3r/en/products/tooling/electrode-manufacturing-and-EDMing/s3refix.html


Increases machine utilization by as much as 60%.

FLEXMT - flexible machine tool tending.

Standardized, flexible solution that increases machine tool utilization while reducing operational costs.

The FlexMT is a standardized solution designed to be robust, simple and flexible


A leader in the development of automation solutions, ABB’s FlexMT sets the standard in flexible machine tool tending. This robotic solution increases machine utilization by as much as 60%. Available in two variants, the FlexMT 20 (20kg/1.65m reach) and the FlexMT 60 (60kg/2.05m reach), the FlexMT comes complete with a robot controller inside its fully integrated control cabinet. The FlexMT is a pre-engineered, well-tested and reliable automation solution.
http://new.abb.com/products/robotics/application-equipment-and-accessories/machine-tending-packages/flexmt

Ten Folding Machine Add-Ons to Increase Bindery Productivity
2014 / by Andre Palko
http://www.technifoldusa.com/bindery-success-blog/bid/103697/Ten-Folding-Machine-Add-Ons-to-Increase-Bindery-Productivity


Moving To Magnets Doubles Productivity

Moving from hydraulic to magnetic fixtures enabled this shop to reduce setup time, improve rigidity and eliminate manual operations. As a result, productivity doubled.
https://www.mmsonline.com/articles/moving-to-magnets-doubles-productivity

Pressure Gauge Accessories:
Insurance for Productivity
https://www.wika.us/solutions_gauge_accessories_insurance_for_productivity_en_us.WIKA

ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY WITH CROWN’S WORK ASSIST™ ACCESSORIES
2015
Work Assist Accessories

Crown knows a clean, organized work environment means increased operator productivity. That’s why Crown offers Integrated Truck Solutions designed to make the operator’s job faster, easier, and more productive. These rugged tools can be easily combined and positioned in the location best suited to the application and the user.
https://www.cardinalcarryor.com/enhance-productivity-with-crowns-work-assist-accessories/


Proper Cutting Tool Choice is Vital to Productivity

https://www.productionmachining.com/columns/proper-cutting-tool-choice-is-vital-to-productivity

Improve Machining Productivity with PVD Coatings!

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Coatings are extremely cost-effective, usually only costing about 5 - 10 percent of what the tool cost.  Just doubling tool life results in getting back over $10 in profits for every $1 spent on coatings.
https://www.tincoat.net/cutting-tools.html

Enhancing Productivity Using Micro Cutting Tools
https://us.bigkaiser.com/pdfs/Enhancing%20Productivity%20Using%20Micro%20Cutting%20Tools.pdf

Full Productivity and Profitability, Only with Process Optimization
SECO Tools Comprehensive process optimization begins with an evaluation to identify the best combination of tooling, fixturing, machines, and cycle times. The Seco Engineered Solutions team evaluates the scope of a project, discusses customers’ requirements and establishes a provisional timeline.

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Feb 01, 2018
http://www.americanmachinist.com/cutting-tools/full-productivity-and-profitability-only-process-optimization


Ud.  25.2.2022, 21.1.2022
Pub  1 May 2018

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Breakthrough Thinking - Prof Shozo Hibino




Shozo Hibino & Gerald Nadler - Breakthrough Thinking


http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/elinksref/eJapanTRIZ-CB/e2ndTRIZSymp06/eKeynotes06/eHibinoPaper060731.pdf

Mr.Kiichiro Toyoda, a founder of Toyota Motor, tried to think the real substance (purpose) of the belt conveyor, shown by Mr. Ford, without introducing it directly. He could find the purpose of the belt conveyor is not to produce parts as many as possible, but to cruise or produce parts in just-in-time. This purpose created the innovative production system, called “Toyota Production System”, which was completely different from Ford Production System. Toyota Production System has bypassed the Ford Motor Production System at this point. Many automobile manufacturing companies have studied Toyota Production System.

Philosophically this new design approach is backed up by Breakthrough Thinking Paradigm proposed by Shozo Hibino & Gerald Nadler, different from the conventional Descartes Thinking Paradigm.


Toyota never imitated Ford Production System, because she thought Toyota and Ford were completely different in size and culture at her initial stage.

Number of ideas are illustrated by reference to Toyota in this article.

Toyota promotes two types of improvement. One is the kaizen improvement based on gemba or on-site people's thinking based on operating using standard operating procedures. The other is breakthrough improvement based on science,engineering and ideal solution possible with using latest available theories, inventions and patents.



Toyota’s Global Marketing Strategy: Innovation through Breakthrough Thinking and Kaizen

Shozo Hibino, Koichiro Noguchi, Gerhard Plenert
Taylor & Francis, 16-Aug-2017 - Business & Economics - 184 pages

Authored by former Toyota marketing executives, this is the first book of its kind to detail how Toyota’s thinking habits go beyond the shop floor and influence and guide Toyota’s marketing function.

Toyota has expanded from a venture enterprise to one of the biggest global enterprises because of its innovative mindset (Toyota thinking habits) using Breakthrough Thinking, which supports a new philosophical approach to problem solving, turning 180 degrees away from conventional thinking.

Written by Toyota’s former executive managing director and founder of Breakthrough Thinking, Toyota’s Global Marketing Strategy: Innovation through Breakthrough Thinking and Kaizen:

Explores Toyota’s "Breakthrough Thinking"
Examines how Toyota conducts information gathering.
Illustrates how Toyota builds and maintains its unique business culture
Shows how Toyota "goes to the customer" and comprehensively studies how customers use their products
Reveals Toyota’s cars have become some of the biggest selling models in the USA

The authors of this book explore Toyota thinking habits as well as Toyota’s global marketing strategy, which, since the 1980sa, has been expanding exponentially. The reader will understand the importance of thinking habits in the workplace and will know how to apply them using Toyota as the prime case study.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=oGZQDwAAQBAJ

Breakthrough Thinking: A Guide to Creative Thinking and Idea Generation

Thomas Vogel
Simon and Schuster, 23-Jun-2014 - Design - 204 pages

Harness your creative potential!

Make no mistake; creative thinking is a skill. As with any skill, it can be strengthened, honed and mastered. And just like any endeavor, mastery of creativity requires thoughtful study and practice. This book gives you the tools you need to make creative thinking a part of your approach to every aspect of your life.

Breakthrough Thinking is a holistic approach to creativity complete with industry examples from successful creative professionals and some of the top creative organizations in business today.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=-7LrDQAAQBAJ

Making Innovation Happen: Concept Management Through Integration

Gerhard J. Plenert, Shozo Hibino
CRC Press, 29-Dec-1997 - Business & Economics - 192 pages

Human potential can be maximized through organized, integrated systems that focus on developing creativity and innovation. This is the book that tells you how to make it happen-create an environment of exciting, purpose/goal-directed, positive change in your organization. The text integrates several cutting-edge management concepts in one volume: Breakthrough Thinking, World Class Management, Total Quality Management, and Concept Engineering. The authors bring together progressive management philosophies from the East and West as well as revolutionary ideas from manufacturers in Japan, the U.S., and Brazil.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=lfkllpNcg34C


Updated on 7 June 2019, 24 August 2013




Brainstorming Needs to be Combined with Other Activities that Support Creativity




Brainstorming sessions are worthless unless they are woven with other work practices.

Brainstorming is just one of many practices that make a company creative, and it is of little value if it's not combined with other practices—such as observing users, talking to experts, or building prototype products or experiences—that provide an outlet for the ideas generated.

Brainstorming to be effective requires certain prebrainstorming activities and certain post brainstorming activities.

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-07-25/eight-tips-for-better-brainstorming


2016 February
Brainstorming is not enough without the deep knowledge development that you would need in a particular domain to understand what the issues are so that you can break away from existing ways of thinking.
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/brainstorming-right-way-innovation/

Brainstorming Electronically
Magazine: Fall 1993 October 15, 1993
R. Brent Gallupe and William H. Cooper
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/brainstorming-electronically/



Additional links

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/brainstorming-groups-context-effectiveness-product-design-firm

https://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/brainstorming_i.html

https://www.6sigmaph.com/blog/rules-and-tips-for-better-brainstorming

Create a new perspective
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=mhoPxkTp8i4C&pg=PA241#v=onepage&q&f=false


Updated on 7 June 2019, 20 October 2012

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Lifelong Creativity by Pradip Khandwalla - Summary




Lifelong Creativity
Pradip Khandwalla
Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2004 - Adult education - 418 pages

Lifelong Creativity is a contemplative, exploratory and path breaking work. It enquires into the roots of creativity what is it about our biology, the way our mind works, the way the society is our spirituality, that makes creativity possible.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=lYwiBAAAQBAJ

Table Of Contents

Part 1. The Creativity Phenomenon

Chapter 1. The Realm of Creativity
Chapter 2. Can Creativity be Enhanced?
Chapter 4. Puzzles of Creativity
Chapter 5. The Body and the Mind as Roots of Human Creativity
Chapter 6. Spiritual and Social Roots of Creativity
Chapter 7. Essence, Elaborative and Expressive Creativities
Chapter 8. Existential, Entrepreneurial and Empowerment Creativities
Chapter 8. Quality of Creativity

Part 2

Chapter 9. The Quest for Lifelong Creativity
Chapter 10. Lifelong Creatiivity
Chapter 12. Mastering Creative Problem Solving
Chapter 13. Enhancing Creative Intelligence
Chapter 14. Acquiring A Creative Persona
Chapter 15. Weakening Our Inner Sensors
Chapter 16. Designing a Creativogenic Environment
Chapter 17. Techniques of Creative Problem Solving

Summary of Chapters



Chapter 1. The Realm of Creativity

Chapter 3. Can Creativity be Enhanced?

Chapter 4. Puzzles of Creativity

Chapter 5. The Body and the Mind as Roots of Human Creativity

Chapter 5. Spiritual and Social Roots of Creativity

Chapter 6. Essence, Elaborative and Expressive Creativities

Chapter 7. Existential, Entrepreneurial and Empowerment Creativities

Chapter 8. Quality of Creativity

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING CREATIVITY
CREDIBLE EVALUATION
IMPACT OF CREATION
IMPROVING THE QUALITY  OF OUR CREATION


Part 2. The Quest for Lifelong Creativity

Chapter 9. Lifelong Creatiivity

Chapter 10. Mastering Creative Problem Solving

WHAT IS A PROBLEM?
STRUCTURING ILL DEFINED PROBLEMS
CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
MODELS OF CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
USEFUL MODELS OF CONVERGENT THINKING
MECHANISMS OF DIVERGENT THINKING
CONCLUDING COMMENTS

Chapter 11. Enhancing Creative Intelligence

Chapter 12. Acquiring A Creative Persona

Chapter 13. Weakening Our Inner Sensors

Chapter 14. Designing a Creativogenic Environment

Chapter 15. Techniques of Creative Problem Solving

PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES FOR CHURNING UP CREATIVE IDEAS
A COMPARISON OF CREATIVITY TECHNIQUES
CONCLUDING COMMENTS

Creativity - 6Es



Existential Creativity

Culture can be explained as a  way  of  life,  a  context  in  which  we  live,  think,  feel  and  communicate with each other, it is a whole of traditions, skills, values, cultural norms, and  customs. . Culture  is  not  a  stable  and  fixed phenomenon,  it  changes,  develops  and  renews  itself.  Culture  is  a  reflection of creativity of individuals in a society.  Reflecting on the relation between culture and creative activity, Antanas Maceina  (1991:  88)  points out that  "we understand culture as creative  activity,  and  in  this  creative  activity  we  see  the  profoundest essence of culture.

Cultural crisis is due to a decline in human existential creativity. The first part of the article reviews the problematic nature of the conception of creativity and reveals that, as a complex phenomenon, it has many manifestations.

Cultural Crisis as a Decline in Human Existential Creativity
Article in Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology 15(1):65-83 · December 2018
Available on https://www.researchgate.net


Friday, April 5, 2019

Creativity - Fourth Eye - Book Summary



Ch.1 The Landscape of Creativity


Creativity Abilities

Ideational fluency

Ability to provide a large variety of solutions.

Originality

Ability to notice the unexplained and incongruent

Ability to go into the roots of a phenomenon by unravelling its causes. Also ability to visualize its consequences

Ability ot elaboratee on a theme.

Ability to go behind the surface features of a problem and see what the real problem is

The list of abilities are:  fluency, flexibility, originality, problem sensitivity, the ability to grasp the causes and visualise the consequences, the ability to elaborate, the ability to restructure problems.

Can creativity be increased

It can be increased.

Torrance suggested certain principles of teacher behaviour in class rooms to increase creativity.

Teacher should show respect for unusual questions.
Be respectful towards imaginative, unusual ideas.
Show pupils their ideas have value
Occasionally let pupils do something for practice without the threat of evaluation.
Tie in evaluation with causes and consequences that is emphasize the reasons for evaluation.



Techniques of Creativity(Once again explained in details in Chapter Chapter 5)

Brainstorming (Osborn)
Attribute analysis
Synectics

Chapter 2 The Creative Process


Stages of Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, and Verification

Mechanisms of Convergent thinking

Mechanisms of Divergent thinking


1. First develop a working definition of the problem. Define the problem
2. Search for the solutions and make a list beginning with the most familiar.
3. Use associative thinking to bring to consciousness more and more far out alternatives. It is stretching the brain to make go deep into its long-term memory. Once put into the search mode the brain may keep working when a person goes into sleep.
4. Restructure the original problem by examining the constraints to relax them appropriately. Under relaxed assumptions, a solution may be found.
5. Evaluate solutions to get further ideas for continuing search in the external environment:  published information as well as interaction with others.
6. Allow the mind to synthesize imaginary solutions - thinking like if a such machine is available.
7. Brain storming - Self as well as group. develop solutions one from another. Don't evaluate and express. But keep improving or modifying the suggested solutions



Chapter 3. The Creative Personality


Traits Congenial to Creativity

Courage and independence

Risk taking

Persistence

Self-sufficiency

Inquisitiveness

Complexity

Motivation and Creativity - Strategies for Changing Motivation

Awareness - Awareness initiates action.  It is knowledge in Knowledge- Attitude-Behaviour model.

Role Model - A role model who was earlier in a similar stage or state, but changed his behaviour and achieved success can provide motivation for change. Similarly expectations of near and dear and higher-ups can provide motivation.

Actions - Small successes can provide motivation to keep doing similar activities.

Reinforcement: Rewards strongly consolidate the behaviour that is rewarded.

Some common blocks to divergent thinking and creative functioning

1. Fear of failure
2. Allergy to ambiguity
3. Touchiness - fear of humiliation and rejection.
4. Confornity
5. Resouce Myopia: The inability to see the resources at one's disposal is a common block to creativity.
6. Starved sensibility
7. Rigidity

Ch. 4. The Armoury of the Creative


Abilities of Divergent Thinking

fluency, flexibility, originality, problem sensitivity, the ability to grasp the causes and visualise the consequences, the ability to elaborate, the ability to restructure problems.

Ch.5 Techniques of Creative Problem Solving


Brainstorming

Attribute Listing

Checklist of Questions

Synetics

Ch. 6 The Creative Environment


Pagano provides the following guidelines for creativity-inducing teaching methodology applicable equally at school, home and possibly at work.


1. Active involvement of the learner
2. Positive democratic environment
3. Ego-building support (praise, acceptance, understanding for innovative ideas or efforts
4. Encouragement to curiosity and experimentation
5. Opportunities for children to interact with creative people.

Low tension environment
Expectations of the powerful
Emphasis on self-discovery
Home environment
Environmental stimulation
Work environment

Ch. 7  Creative Encounters


Tools of Creative Interaction

1. Effective listening
2. Empathy
3. Clarificatory questions
4. Feedback
5. Evocative questions
6. analogies
7. Converging to a solution or conclusion

Ch. 8. The Management of Creativity


Organizational Design for Innovation

Organizational Structure, Management systems and Practices

Culture of the Organization's Staff

Ch. 9. The Design of a Creative Society


A creative society respects the best traditions and carefully records them for posterity because they are inheritance of past creativity.  In a creative society,  traditions are loved and studied for their core vitality, but not allowed to obstruct the search for fresh forms.

The Characteristics of a Creative Society described by authors

1. Toynbee
2. Abram T. Collier
3. Silvano Arieti
4. H.G. Barnett

A model of a creative society

1. Society needs certain kinds of resources.
2. Norms that facilitate creativity, innovation, and experimentation
3. A large number must have autonomy.
4. Society needs to have stimulating events and experiences that spur creativity
5. Institutions that promote creativity - Government, Large enterprises and Institutions of higher learning

The book has nine chapters.


Updated 6 April 2019, 12 January 2019