Assumption Reversal⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007016 de Bono; distinct from Reversal in that it inverts premises rather than the objective.
Biomimicry⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000009416 Benyus (1997); the AskNature taxonomy; Zwicky-style function mapping onto biological strategies.
Brainwriting⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006936 Rohrbach's 6-3-5 method (1968); the empirical corrective to Osborn's verbal brainstorming.
Crazy Eights⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000005536 Google Ventures Design Sprint.
Design Thinking⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006392 Rittel and Simon; codified at IDEO and the d.school.
Dream Fusion Lab⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006800 No identifiable source. Related to bisociation (Koestler) and the hypnagogic-imagery tradition.
First Principles⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000008360 Aristotle's ἀρχαί; Descartes' method of doubt; contemporary usage via engineering culture.
Forced Relationships⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006568 Whiting (1958); the general operation behind Random Stimulation and Synectics.
Iceberg Analysis⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006280 Systems thinking (Meadows; Senge's levels of perspective).
Inner Child Conference⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007608 Transactional analysis / inner-child work in psychotherapy, repurposed as an ideation stance.
Jobs to Be Done⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007768 Christensen; earlier in Ulwick's outcome-driven innovation.
Lateral Thinking⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007408 de Bono (1967).
Metaphor Mapping⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000008520 Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (1980).
Mind Mapping⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006488 Popularized by Buzan; the underlying structure is a rooted tree with radial layout.
Monomyth⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000009480 Joseph Campbell, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (1949); Jungian archetypes.
Pirate Code⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006920 Ambiguous. Either the AARRR pirate metrics funnel (Dave McClure) or the 'guidelines, not rules' framing of negotiable constraint.
Provocation⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007712 de Bono. 'PO' marks an utterance as provocation rather than proposition.
Quantum Superposition⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000008336 Metaphorical borrowing from quantum mechanics; no formal content.
Question Storming⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006616 Right Question Institute (QFT); Berger, A More Beautiful Question.
Random Stimulation⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006064 de Bono; a special case of Forced Relationships with a random rather than chosen stimulus.
Resource Constraints⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006656 Theory of constraints; the 'creativity loves constraint' literature (Stokes).
Reversal⤓ .md 2026-07-17T121634.146 000000000000696 Jacobi's dictum, 'invert, always invert'; formalized in de Bono's provocation family.
Reverse Brainstorming⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006544 Osborn; the same inversion as Reversal, applied to generation.
Role Playing⤓ .md 2026-07-17T121634.146 000000000000728 Moreno's psychodrama; adapted through Synectics and design research.
SCAMPER⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000005920 Osborn's checklists (1953), assembled into the mnemonic by Eberle (1971).
Shadow Work Mining⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007672 Jungian shadow (the disowned contents of the psyche), applied to teams and organizations.
Six Thinking Hats⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006704 de Bono (1985).
SWOT Analysis⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000010224 Albert Humphrey at Stanford Research Institute (1960s-1970s); widely adopted in strategic planning.
Synectics⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007368 Gordon and Prince, Arthur D. Little (1961).
Time Shifting⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006440 Scenario planning; historical counterfactual.
Time Travel Talk Show⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006928 Framing device; combines prospective hindsight with adversarial interview.
What If Scenarios⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007584 Counterfactual reasoning; scenario planning (Kahn, Wack).
Working Backward⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000009216 Pólya's problem-solving heuristics; Amazon's "Working Backwards" product process; goal-regression in AI planning.
World Cafe⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006496 Brown and Isaacs (1995).