Unit Five: Creative Problem Solving

Part One: Assessment Activities

1. Self-Assessment: Decision Making Styles, page 112 in Lussier

2. Test your creativity

3. Are you an entrepreneur 

3. Are you a logical thinker?

4. What is your creative MRI?

Part Two: Email Application Activities

Individual Assignment: Think of a non-programmed problem where you have worked.   Prepare a memo in which you classify the problem (structure, conditions, model, group or individual); objectives and criteria; alternatives; how alternatives analyzed; the plan.  Are there ways in which the problem solving might be improved in the future.

Group Assignment: For the problem I assign your group use Skill Builder 1: Making a Decision Using the Decision Making Model (Lussier pages 142-143) as a guide.  After you complete the activity, send me an essay outlining your steps in solving the problem and your suggestions for improving the problem solving process.

Part Three: Textbook Assignment

Read chapter four in Lussier.

Part Four: Unit Outline with Reading Assignments

I. Problem Solving Resources

    A. Team Problem Solving  

        1. Problem Identification  

        2. Reflective Problem Solving  

        3. Conflict-based Problem Solving  

        4. Creative Problem Solving  

    B. The tools of quality

II.  Creative Problem Solving

    A. Fermi questions

    B. Learning to think creatively

    C. Resources for creativity

III. Quantitative Analysis