Abstract

VIDAL, René Victor Valqui. Creativity for Operational Researchers. Inv. Op. [online]. 2005, vol.25, n.1, pp.1-24. ISSN 0874-5161.

This paper presents some modern and interdisciplinary concepts about creativity and creative processes specially related to problem solving. Central publications of Creativity-OR are briefly reviewed. Creative tools and approaches suitable to support OR work are also presented. Finally, the paper outlines the author's experiences using creative tools and approaches to: Facilitation of problem solving processes, strategy development in organisations, and design of optimisation systems for large scale and complex logistic systems.

Keywords : Creativity; Problem Solving; CPS; Facilitation; Strategy Development; Optimisation.

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