Creative Problem Solving
Learn about creative problem solving and the different thinking sequences involved in the process.
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What does the comparison between nature and nurture in the field of music suggest about becoming a great musician?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">It suggests that while innate talent plays a role, hard work, study, and practice are crucial for achieving greatness in music.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How should the sequence of hat usage begin when discovering the positive and negative aspects of an idea?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Start with the yellow hat for optimism, followed by the black hat for caution.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What does Edward de Bono's 'Six Thinking Hats' method suggest about approaching problems?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">It suggests exploring problems from multiple perspectives to enhance creativity and problem-solving.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What mindset is crucial for the problem definition stage in creative problem solving?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">The Explorer mindset, focusing on identifying larger issues related to the topic.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What characteristics define an opportunity in a business context?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">An opportunity is attractive, desirable, timely, and creates value for the buyer or end user.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What are the three components of creativity mentioned?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Domain relevant skills, creative processes, and intrinsic task motivation.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What are the contrasting views on creativity according to the text?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">The contrasting views are the Elitist View, seeing creativity as a rare talent, and the Developmental View, considering it accessible to everyone and developable.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What is the definition of innovation according to Chesbrough (2003)?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Innovation is defined as invention plus commercialization.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Can creativity be learned and applied by everyone?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Yes, creativity can be learned, practiced, and successfully applied by all individuals.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How do disruptive innovations differ from sustaining innovations?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Disruptive innovations create new markets with a new value proposition, while sustaining innovations improve existing products, processes, or markets.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How does business management theory view the relationship between creativity and opportunity in a commercial context?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">It suggests that creativity can be learned or developed and does not need to relate to complete novelty, and that opportunity can be created or developed.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How has the process of creation historically been perceived in relation to spirituality?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Historically, the process of creation was seen as a spiritual experience, with the artist acting as a channel for a superior power.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What is the fundamental nature of creativity according to the text?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Creativity is a personal problem-solving process that is not exclusive to 'elite' people and can be developed by anyone in every walk of life.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Why is creativity considered vital in business?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Creativity is vital because it drives the development of novel ideas, keeping businesses flexible and successful across various sectors.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What role does the blue hat play in the thinking process?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">It directs the thinking process and suggests the next hat to be used.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What analogy is drawn between natural and human creations to illustrate the concept of creativity?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Analogies are drawn between natural creations (like the eye or heart) and human inventions (like the camera or pump) to illustrate creativity.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">According to Edward de Bono, why is creativity crucial for human progress?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Creativity is crucial because it is the most important human resource, essential for progress and avoiding repetition of the same patterns.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What distinguishes an innovation according to Schumpeter?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Innovation is the creation of something new that adds value for its users or consumers.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How does the concept of open innovation differ from closed innovation?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Open innovation leverages internal and external ideas and does not rely solely on in-house R&D, unlike closed innovation which is based on proprietary knowledge and in-house R&D.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How does the literature view the nature of creativity in individuals?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">The literature suggests that creativity can be both innate and learned, improving with practice.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What are Drucker’s Opportunity Scans and how do they contribute to identifying opportunities?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Drucker’s Opportunity Scans include internal factors like the unexpected, incongruity, inadequacy in processes, and changes in industry or market, and external factors like changes in demographics, perception, and new knowledge, all of which can help identify opportunities.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How does the example of Levi’s illustrate the process of turning a problem into an innovative opportunity?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">The problem of mining workers' clothes not lasting led to the solution of creating the first pair of jeans, showcasing how identifying and solving a problem can lead to an innovative opportunity.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What is the essence of creativity as observed throughout history?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">The essence of creativity is the ability to create and innovate, a trait that has been prevalent in every civilization.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What is the primary focus of the blue hat during the design sequence?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Control, guiding the process of creating new ideas, products, or improvements.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What distinguishes an innovation from an invention according to Schumpeter?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Innovations transform basic inventions into economic innovations, altering existing market structures, whereas inventions are the creation of new knowledge.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What is the role of creativity in the context of innovation?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">It leads to the invention and innovation, resulting in the creation of new products, services, or processes.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How does Edward de Bono view the role of creativity in human progress?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">He believes that creativity is the most important human resource, essential for progress and avoiding repetition of the same patterns.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">According to Drucker, what is the ultimate test of an innovation?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Its success in the marketplace.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What is the significance of 'Points of Pain' in idea generation for new business opportunities?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">They highlight inefficiencies or inconveniences that can be addressed to create new solutions or opportunities.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">According to Timmons & Spinelli (2007), when does an idea become an opportunity?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">An idea becomes an opportunity when it adds value to the consumer, solves a problem, can make some money, and fits well with the entrepreneurial team.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How does creativity contribute to business and innovation according to Parkhurst (1999)?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Creativity involves solving unsolved problems, developing original solutions, and creating novel products.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What barriers can hinder the development of new ideas in business?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Fear, risk, convention, self-doubt, and fear of failure are barriers to business creativity.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What are the stages in the creative thought process as outlined in the text?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Preparation, incubation, insight, evaluation, and elaboration.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How does the concept of 'problem' differ in a business context compared to its normal use?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">In business, a 'problem' may refer to anything that makes a customer's activities less efficient, enjoyable, or simple, not necessarily something wrong.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What are some attributes of creative thinking according to the text?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Flexibility, originality, non-judgemental attitude, and the ability to be creative and spot opportunities.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What systematic approach do creative individuals take towards problem-solving?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Creative individuals approach a problem systematically, not just waiting for inspiration to strike.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What is the fundamental role of problems in the context of business and innovation?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Problems are seen as big opportunities for firms, serving as the basis for solutions, reasons for firms to exist, and opportunities for making money.</p>
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