Creative Problem Solving (CPS). Techniques, Tools, Examples

Creative Problem Solving (CPS)

Approaches ▪ Examples ▪ Mini-course

When something goes wrong, you can either fix things, make things better than before, make things differently – creatively, – or turn the problem to an entrepreneurial opportunity.

Creative Problem Solving (CPS) and 4 levels of solutions

Look at the Problem through Various Lenses

Vadim Kotelnikov (VadiK) innovator venturepreneur trainer speaker

If you create something unseen before,
prepare to address challenges unmet earlier

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them," advised Albert Einstein.

Change your thinking mode. Step out of your everyday shoes into the shoes of others to surface new insights to a problem.

"New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem solving process with empathy toward your target audience,"

advised Tom Kelley from IDEO.

Creative Problem Solving (CPS): Perceptual Positions, Reframing

Use Metaphors and Metaphoric Thinking Tools

Creative Problem Solving (CPS) KoRe 10 Metaphoric Thinking Tools

Metaphoric KoRe 10 Innovative Thinking Tools (10 KITT) provide great real-world insights and inspire amazing innovative ideas and creative solutions to problems.