CREATIVITY PROBLEM SOLVING AND

INNOVATION
NAME: HARSH VASOYA
ROLL NO: 92000103114
CLASS: TC2
MARWADI UNIVERSITY
WHAT IS CPI ?

• Yadshakti + Samajshakti + Vicharshakti + Kalpanashakti

• All these four human abilities are involved in what is generally known as skill for
Creativity, Problem Solving and Innovation.
WHAT SHOULD I STUDDED IN THIS
13 WEEKS OF CREATIVITY PROBLEM SOLVING AND INNOVATION
WEEK 1

• What is Creativity Problem Solving and innovation ?

• India’s history of creativity and innovations
• Why is this CPI course important ?
• Types of Thinking
• Indian Scenario on CPI
• Experience Sharing on Individual Test
• Build Creative Confidence
• And some tests
WEEK 2

• Various practices of asking questions

• Find the right question
• Method of questioning , Ask 10 questions
• CIA method of questioning
• Find the bug
• Importance of asking the right question
• Reversal questioning, Search and Squeeze
• Various strategies to ask questions as per above for creativity and problem solving
 PRACTICE OF ASKING

• Asking a right question is necessary and how do you find a right question?
• Problem finding requires you to loosen up and Improvise towards figuring out creatively.
• Write down as many as ten different formulations of your problem, all in one setting.

• Try to make them as different as possible from each other.

WEEK 3

• Views on education in India

• Development of Creativity requires continuous learning
• Practice Deliberately
• Master your domain
• Learn Forever
• Balance Speciality with Generality
• Video on how to learn anything
• Group Discussion
LEARNING HOW TO LEARN

• How a person can alter the path of learning and learn even what was earlier very difficult “learning how to
learn”.
• The concept of flow shows how to maximize the
• benefits of deliberate practice.
• “The best moments in our lives are not the passive,
• receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually
• occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its
• limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something
• difficult and worthwhile.”
WEEK 4

• Strategy of Knowing how to see

• Making your thought visible
• Visualizing Thinking
• Mapping of Mind
• How to make Fishbone di
• Making thoughts visible & Visualization of thinking
• Mind mapping & Fishbone diagrams
• In class practicing of Fishbone diagrams
LOOKING PERSPECTIVE,GENERATE IDEAS

• By looking at the problem in a different way, we found an easier and quicker way to solve it.
• Summarize how you can quickly get the answer By changing your perspective.
• The specifically you define your challenge; the easier it is to generate ideas. Ask who, what,
when, why and how.
• In this week we will learn two ways of expressing our thinking by pictorial diagrams.
• Mind Mapping
• Fishbone Diagram
WEEK 5

• Strategy of Thinking Fluency

• Generating all possibilities
• SCAMPER technique
• Creative or divergent idea generating thinking versus Critical or convergent idea
selection thinking.
• Inculcate creative thinking and idea generation
WEEK 6

• Strategy of Fusing of ideas

• Indian culture has many examples of unique combinations
• Making novel combinations
• Force Fuse
• Make Analogies
• Do a People Mash Up
• Connecting the unconnected
WEEK 7

• Strategy of Looking at the other side

• Reversal techniques
• Reverse Brainstorming
• Paradoxical thinking
• Looking in other worlds
• Finding what you are not looking for and Following it up.
• How to examine all sides for unusual discovery
WEEK 8

• Connection between play and creativity

• Importance of play

• Relaxation

• Diversion

• Break

• Unstructured activities for sheer joy

• Learning Outcomes

• Stop thinking and do activities for JOY

• Let subconscious figure it out , Sleep on it

• Various puzzles as play or fun

WEEK 9

• Strategy of Awakening the collaborative spirit

• Spirit of Koinonia or Group dialogue
• Brain storming and its rules
• Brain writing as parallel ideas creation method
• Participants will understand the importance of Joint participation
• It facilitates in implementation of brainstorming in a right manner
WEEK 10

• The Five building Blocks of the Problem-Solving Heuristic from

• This book was created by funding from the National Science Foundation of USA
• Five stages of Design thinking Process of Stanford d School and Design thinking at
IDEO
• Problem solving and Design Thinking approaches
DISCUSSION
WEEK 11

• Strategy for critical thinking for Choosing

• Creative or divergent thinking needs follow up by Critical thinking or Convergent
thinking in order to choose the solution for implementation
• Kepner-Tregoe (K.T.) method with an example
• Edward De Bono CoRT thinking process including PMI (Plus, Minus and Interesting)
• Introduction to Edward de Bono method of decision making called Six thinking hats
• Choosing methods for implementations as listed above
WEEK 12

• Edward de Bono day explaining and teaching his ideas on Lateral Thinking
• Concept of “PO” as Provocation Operation, etc.
• Six thinking hats method for decision making
• Edward De Bono’s ideas on lateral thinking, concept of “PO” and six thinking
method of brainstorming and decision making
WEEK 13

• Design Thinking process requires quick prototyping

• Frugal science to make idea to reality
• The practices of Making
• Makers Asylum in India
• Various practices for going from idea to innovation
• As listed above various steps and approaches for going from idea to rapid
prototype towards realizing concrete innovation
• In class practice of making Mind Map