Creative Success: Twenty Years on the Back of an Envelope

Donovan, John C.

doi:10.1002/j.2162-6057.1985.tb00644.x

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“…What was immediately evident was that the group came up with the creative method without having a 'leader/follower' relationship. ANALYSIS According to Donovan (1985), the rules for success in creativity are: 1) Recognize Creative Opportunities, 2) Put an Effort into Creativity, 3) Manage Judgement, and 4) Aggressively Seek a Quantity of Ideas.Observers of the group activity agreed that all the ideas stated by Donovan took place during the exercise. Another idea often discussed about creativity is whether groups can be creative as opposed to individuals being creative.…”

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Game‐playing as an Aid to the Creative Process of Small Groups

Tulenko

Kryder

1990

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Game‐playing as an Aid to the Creative Process of Small Groups

Tulenko

Kryder

1990

Journal of Creative Behavior

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“…This aids in both expanding and exploring the design space more fully (Kulkarni, 2000). Some tackles found in generation methods include emphasis on the quantity of designs (Basadur and Thompson, 1986;Purcell and Gero, 1996;Donovan, 1985) or the variety of the designs (Roy, 1993;Tovey, 1986). The emphasis on quantity both expands and explores the design space, while the emphasis on variety works in exploring the design space.…”

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Collaborative Sketching (C‐Sketch) — An Idea Generation Technique for Engineering Design

Shah

Vargas-Hernández

Summers

et al. 2001

Journal of Creative Behavior

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This paper presents the development and evaluation of a technique (C‐Sketch) for concept generation in a collaborative engineering design setting. The paper reviews both the intrinsic merit of C‐Sketch, as well as relative merit compared to other techniques in the same class. This analysis is based on results from experiments conducted over five years. Both the process and outcome were evaluated, with greater emphasis on the latter. This study found that C‐Sketch not only has intrinsic merit, but also measures higher in all outcomes when compared to Method 6‐3‐5. Also, C‐Sketch was at least as good as the Gallery Method in the quality of ideas produced and better in variety and novelty of ideas. This paper is a consolidation of all empirical studies related to C‐Sketch.

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Evaluation of Idea Generation Methods for Conceptual Design: Effectiveness Metrics and Design of Experiments

Shah

Kulkarni

Vargas-Hernández

2000

Journal of Mechanical Design

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A wide range of formal methods have been devised and used for idea generation in conceptual design. Experimental evidence is needed to support claims regarding the effectiveness of these methods in promoting idea generation in engineering design. Towards that goal this paper presents a set of effectiveness metrics experimental methods, data collection and analysis techniques. Statistically based Design of Experiments (DOE) principles were used in developing the guidelines. Four classes of operating variables were considered to characterize the design problem and the environment. The effectiveness metrics proposed are based on outcome and consists of the quantity, quality, novelty, and variety of ideas generated. Two experimental approaches have been developed. In the Direct Method, the influence of the type of design problem and various parameters related to the procedure of an idea generation method is measured by using the method in its entirety. In the Indirect Method, each idea generation method is decomposed into key components and its overall effectiveness is predicted by experimentally studying the effectiveness of its components and their mutual interactions. [S1050-0472(00)02004-3]

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Creative Success: Twenty Years on the Back of an Envelope

Cited by 3 publications

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Game‐playing as an Aid to the Creative Process of Small Groups

Game‐playing as an Aid to the Creative Process of Small Groups

Collaborative Sketching (C‐Sketch) — An Idea Generation Technique for Engineering Design

Evaluation of Idea Generation Methods for Conceptual Design: Effectiveness Metrics and Design of Experiments

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