Creativity and innovationCreative thinking

Techniques such as mind mapping, blue-sky thinking and the six hats technique can help you come up with creative and innovative ideas.

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Creative thinking

Creative thinking is a way of coming up with innovative ideas.

Innovative thinking means:

  • inventing something new
  • inventing a new way of doing something
  • developing a new way of thinking about something
  • changing the way that someone else looks at something

There are many techniques that can be used to try and come up with innovative ideas such as:

  • blue-sky thinking
  • mind mapping
  • six thinking hats

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