What is Creative Problem Solving?
Greg Pepe
Vice President, Engineering and New Product Development, Buffalo Filter
Virtual Breakthrough Lab
Identify your real problem. Then get hundreds of ideas to solve it.
A Breakthrough Lab yields many incremental and disruptive ideas for new products, services or innovative ways to solve the challenges that face your organization today.
Dr Firestien’s broad network of innovation professionals makes this the only program like it in the world.
A virtual Breakthrough Lab consists of the following:
- An initial meeting with Dr. Roger Firestien to identify your initial goal or challenge.
- A virtual three-hour Breakthrough Lab led by Dr. Firestien and includes 5-6 of your key team members along with 3-4 Creative Catalysts.
- Creative Catalysts are individuals who are highly trained in Creative Problem-Solving (CPS), and successful in their specific fields of business, education, medicine, arts or government. Creative Catalysts provide the fresh perspectives and new insights that often lead to major breakthroughs. Catalysts are a critical piece of this process – you’re here because your team has exhausted the usual ways to solve the problem.
- You leave the Breakthrough Lab with your redefined problems and the solutions that were generated.
- Post-lab Action Session: One week after your lab, meet with Dr. Firestien to determine next steps and you select the best ideas to put into action.
Virtual Breakthrough Lab
Identify your real problem. Then get hundreds of ideas to solve it.
All participants will receive:
- Access to onlineCreative Problem-Solving training programs so that you can reinforce what you have learned and use tools to conduct your own Breakthrough Lab.
- A digital copy of Dr. Firestien’s latest book, Create in a Flash: A leader’s recipe for breakthrough innovation.
Innovation Work Session
Solve real problems. Learn creativity skills.
Four hours, up to 50 People
In this session, you will solve crucial challenges facing your organization by creating hundreds of ideas. You will then select the best of those ideas and develop the next steps to implement them. The challenges are determined by key decision makers and are identified BEFORE the meeting starts.
Participants receive targeted creativity skills training and then apply their newly acquired skills to solving the organizational challenges.
Creating Your Future
Design your future so that you move beyond the day-to-day tactics that keep you in the past.
Three hours, up to 80 people
“The poorest person in the world is not the one without money, but the one without vision.” Ghanaian proverb
The difference between the winners and the “also ran” are the visions and powerful images they create about their future. This is true in athletics and it is even more important in life.
Whether you are 16 or 60, having a compelling vision for your future is absolutely vital for success and health. Research on aging has found that those individuals who have a higher sense of purpose live healthier and longer lives.
In this session, you will design your future. This session will help you take the long view for your future to move beyond the day-to-day tactics that may keep you in the past.
You will leave this session with a vision of your future and specific actions you can take to get you there.
Creating Your Future
Design your future so that you move beyond the day-to-day tactics that keep you in the past.
Three hours, up to 80 people
Leading on The Creative Edge®
Learn the Creative Problem Solving Process. Apply it to ANY challenge.
Two days, up to 24 People
In this program participants apply the entire Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process to real challenges that they bring to the program. First, we establish a goal or vision of what you want to create. You then identify all the blocks that are preventing you from accomplishing it and then, in a very short period of time you generate hundreds of ideas to overcome those blocks. You pick the best of those ideas to create a plan that assures your success.
Based on Dr. Firestien’s 40 years of experience in the creativity field, you will apply the most dependable creativity tools that solve 95% of the challenges you might encounter. You won’t be bothered by cute creativity tricks.
Leading on The Creative Edge®
Learn the Creative Problem Solving Process. Apply it to ANY challenge.
Two days, up to 24 People
Breakthrough Lab
Create disruptive and incremental ideas for products or services.
One day, 8 to 15 people
The output of a Breakthrough Lab is many incremental and disruptive ideas for new products or new services. After ideas are generated, next-steps are developed to implement those new insights.
When these sessions are conducted in the Western New York area, we often add a number of Creative Catalysts to the session. Creative Catalysts are individuals who are highly trained in Creative Problem Solving and successful in their specific fields of business, education, arts or government. Creative Catalysts generate new ideas that lead to breakthrough solutions.
We conduct our Breakthrough Labs at The Space Between: The Complex Brain Complex.
Leading On The Creative Edge™
One hour keynote address
Create new ideas on demand so that you can Lead on the Creative Edge.
up to 3,000 people
Creativity isn’t some mysterious ability that only a few people possess. Creativity is a skill. Just like you learned to ride a bicycle, you can learn how to be creative. You can turn on your creativity at will instead of waiting for ideas to happen.
Whether you lead a multimillion dollar corporation, chair a volunteer group, teach in a classroom, pastor a church, or direct a non-profit organization, this highly interactive experience will give you the tools you need to take your innovation and leadership to the creative edge.
Leading On The Creative Edge®
One hour keynote address
Create new ideas on demand so that you can Lead on the Creative Edge.
up to 3,000 people
Leading on the Creative Edge®
Leading Innovation Teams
Train your own CPS Facilitators so that you don’t have to call Roger.
Three days, 7 to 14 people
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