Enhancement of creativity

Six thinking hats

White
facts

Black
criticism

Yellow
optimism
Six thinking hats (2)
Red
emotion

Green
productivity

Blue
control
Synectics
Making the strange familiar
Understanding of the problem

Making the familiar strange

Manipulation with the problem
How can we do that?
Direct analogy
Parliament is an asylum
Symbolic analogy
Metaphorical grasp
Fantasy analogy
I wish this problem solve itself
Personal analogy
How do I feel as ... (a wheelchair, a cellular phone)
These analogies are:
Constructive
Neither forced, nor spontaneous

Elaborate
Complex, time-consuming

Often creative as such

imaginative, paradoxical
Mental excursion
Forget the original problem

Think about an analogical one

Solve the analogical problem

Transfer the ideas

Evaluate
Transfer
Spontaneous, sudden insight

Force fit

„Get fired” technique

Morphological analysis
Combinatorical approach

Systematic investigation
Every possible combination

Systematic evaluation
One by one
Toy factory
Material

Target

Function
Morphological results
Already existing
Wooden toy, for preschool children, developing their
motor functions
Nonsense
Made of glass, for infants, developing their reasoning
ability
Interesting for further investigation
Made of glass, for schoolchildren, developing their
interests in optics
Does it work at all?
It is widely used (and paid for...)

So, maybe it does

„Brainstorming is popular because the

industry thinks it works”