Creative problem solving: structure your approach to innovation

Goals

• Master the key steps of the CPS (Creative Problem-Solving) process
• Know how to identify situations where it is possible to apply the CPS approach in daily life
• Adjust your facilitator posture to integrate the creative dimension into your coaching
• Use, for yourself or in group animation, the basic rules of divergence/convergence operations

Target audience

Anyone in charge of finding creative solutions

Prerequisite

None

Contents

The Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) approach, released as Open Source for over 50 years by the Creative Problem-Solving Institute (CPSI), combines problem solving with the power of the creative process.

It applies to a great number of fields by using collective intelligence to go further.

Focus on the CPS approach

• The fundamentals of the creative process in relation to the Creative Problem-Solving model
• Global vision of the CPS approach: problem solving and creativity
• The divergence/convergence principle

Toolkit to meet the needs of the different stages of Creative Problem-Solving

• The three main phases of the CPS and its sub-steps
  • Clarification of the problem
  • Ideation
  • Transform ideas into solutions and initiate action plans

Mix between methodology and practice

• Collective and individual practice related to the participants' projects
• Experimentation with various creativity tools