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Proctor, Tony

Creative problem solving for managers : developing skills for decision making and innovation / Tony Proctor. - 5th Edition. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2019. - xviii, 374 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Revised edition of the author's Creative problem solving for managers, [2014]

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preface to fourth edition -- Creativity and it importance in business -- Blocks to creativity -- Theories of creativity -- Problem solving and improvisation -- Factors influencing people's ability to undertake ideation -- Objective finding, fact finding and problem finding/definition -- Morphological analysis and related techniques -- Brainstorming and its variants -- Lateral thinking and associated methods -- Synectics -- Miscellaneous ideation techniques -- Evaluation -- Decision making -- Computer-assisted creative problem solving -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index.

ISBN: 9781138312364 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781138312388 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2018021872

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Problem solving.
Decision making.
Management.

Subjects--Index Terms: მენეჯმენტი პრობლემის გადაჭრა გადაწყვეტილების მიღება ინოვაციები მენეჯმენტში

LC Class. No.: HD30.29 / .P763 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 658.4/03

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 658