Browse Tools by Category
Start Here (3)
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5 MIN READUnderstanding Creativity
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19 MIN READ
How Creative Are You?
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8 MIN READ
Encouraging Team Creativity
Helping Your People to Think Creatively
Brainstorming (9)
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12 MIN READ
Brainstorming
Generating Many Radical, Creative Ideas
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10 MIN READ
Brainwriting
Enabling Everyone to Share Their Creative Ideas
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5 MIN READ
Reverse Brainstorming
A Different Approach to Brainstorming
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4 MIN READ
Starbursting
Understanding New Ideas by Brainstorming Questions
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5 MIN READ
The Charette Procedure
Brainstorming Multiple Ideas With Multiple Stakeholders
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4 MIN READ
Crawford's Slip Writing Method
Generating Ideas and Solutions From Many Contributors
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5 MIN READ
Round-Robin Brainstorming
Allowing Everyone to Contribute
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5 MIN READ
Rolestorming
Improving Group Brainstorming
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7 MIN READ
Online Brainstorming
Using Technology to Harness Your Team's Ideas
Other Idea-Generation Tools (7)
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11 MIN READ
New Ideas - Strategies and Techniques
Inspiring Innovation Through Creative Thinking
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7 MIN READ
O'Connor's Seven Essential Innovation Questions (SEIQ) Framework
Asking Questions, Generating Ideas
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9 MIN READ
Metaphorical Thinking
Using Comparisons to Express Ideas and Solve Problems
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2 MIN READ
Reversal
Improving Products and Services
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8 MIN READ
SCAMPER
Improving Products and Services
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5 MIN READ
Attribute Listing and Morphological Analysis
Tools for Creating New Products and Services
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6 MIN READ
The Reframing Matrix
Using Creative Perspectives to Solve Problems
Creativity Processes (11)
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6 MIN READ
DO IT
A Simple Process for Creative Thinking
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8 MIN READ
TRIZ
A Powerful Methodology for Creative Problem-Solving
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10 MIN READ
Beyonder Creativity
Moving From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary
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9 MIN READ
Stealth Innovation
Going Underground to Get Things Done
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8 MIN READ
Practical Innovation
Encouraging and Managing Curiosity
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10 MIN READ
What Is Stage-Gate® Innovation?
Making Sure Only Your Best Ideas Make it to Market
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9 MIN READ
Kano Model Analysis
Delivering Products That Will Delight
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9 MIN READ
Design Thinking
A Creative Strategy For Innovation
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11 MIN READ
Turn Your Idea Into Reality
Getting Good Ideas Off the Drawing Board
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10 MIN READ
The Disney Creative Strategy
Fusing Imagination and Planning
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12 MIN READ
Doblin's 10 Types of Innovation®
Spread Your Creative Efforts Across Your Organization
Further Resources
Bite–Sized Training (1)
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60 MIN READ
Get Creative!
Book Insights (18)
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15 MIN READ
Beyond the Idea
By Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
This book shows you how to take action on innovative ideas. Learn more about...
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15 MIN READ
Gamestorming
By Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo
This book looks at some new approaches to group creativity that are fun, dynamic...
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15 MIN READ
Little Bets
By Peter Sims
This book explores how small low-risk actions can help us discover, test, and develop...
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15 MIN READ
Brainsteering
By Kevin and Shawn Coyle
This entertaining book helps you come up with creative ideas by asking the "right...
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15 MIN READ
Innovation to the Core
By Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson
Most organizations recognize that innovating is crucial for survival. But few manage to translate...
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15 MIN READ
Creative Intelligence
By Bruce Nussbaum
This book looks at how we can all boost our "creative intelligence" to come...
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15 MIN READ
Developing New Products and Services
By G. Lawrence Sanders
This book guides you through a process for delivering products and services that stand...
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15 MIN READ
Red Thread Thinking
By Debra Kaye
This fascinating book explores how you can have better ideas and solve problems more...
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15 MIN READ
The Art of Insight
By Charles Kiefer and Malcolm Constable
This book looks at how you can come up with more fresh ideas, and...
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15 MIN READ
Collective Genius
By Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback
This book outlines how leaders at companies such as eBay and Pixar encourage innovation...
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15 MIN READ
Well Designed
By Jon Kolko
This book describe a four-step process for developing products that people cherish. Learn more...
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15 MIN READ
Yes, And
By Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton
Learn how you can use the principles of improvisational theater to improve your collaboration...
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15 MIN READ
The Art of the Start 2.0
By Guy Kawasaki
Get some practical tips for getting a new idea off the ground, whether you're...
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15 MIN READ
Wired to Create
By Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire
Human beings have an innate ability to be creative. Authors Scott Barry Kaufman and...
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15 MIN READ
The Net And The Butterfly
By Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack
Authors Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack examine ways to give your brain more...
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15 MIN READ
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
By Tim Harford
Author Tim Harford examines both the benefits and downsides of the 50 key innovations...
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15 MIN READ
The Creative Thinking Handbook
By Chris Griffiths with Melina Costi
Forget thinking outside the box - throw the box away! Discover Chris Griffiths’ strategies...
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15 MIN READ
Experimentation Works
By Stefan H. Thomke
In this podcast, we review "Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments," by Stefan H.
Expert Interviews (7)
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30 MIN READ
Too Fast To Think
Chris Lewis
Author Chris Lewis says people are at their most creative when they have the...
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30 MIN READ
Big Little Breakthroughs
Josh Linkner
In this podcast, creativity expert Josh Linkner talks to Mind Tools about his methods...
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23 MIN READ
Be More Creative
Mind Tools Expert Voices
In this episode of our Expert Voices podcast series, we bring together the best...
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30 MIN READ
The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags
Linda Rottenberg
Being seen as crazy isn't always a bad thing, especially when you're an entrepreneur...
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30 MIN READ
The Three Box Solution
Vijay Govindarajan
"Innovation is important, innovation is hard, innovation can be done," says innovation and strategy...
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30 MIN READ
Uncertainty
Jonathan Fields
In this interview Jonathan Fields tells us how to turn fear and doubt into...
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30 MIN READ
The 4 Lenses of Innovation
Rowan Gibson
In this interview, we learn about four ways of thinking you can adopt to...
