Assumption Reversal⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000784 **Origin.** de Bono; distinct from Reversal in that it inverts premises rather than the objective.
Biomimicry⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000712 **Origin.** Benyus (1997); the AskNature taxonomy; Zwicky-style function mapping onto biological strategies.
Brainwriting⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000728 **Origin.** Rohrbach's 6-3-5 method (1968); the empirical corrective to Osborn's verbal brainstorming.
Crazy Eights⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000728 **Origin.** Google Ventures Design Sprint.
Design Thinking⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000752 **Origin.** Rittel and Simon; codified at IDEO and the d.school.
Dream Fusion Lab⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000760 **Origin.** No identifiable source. Related to bisociation (Koestler) and the hypnagogic-imagery tradition.
First Principles⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000760 **Origin.** Aristotle's ἀρχαί; Descartes' method of doubt; contemporary usage via engineering culture.
Forced Relationships⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000792 **Origin.** Whiting (1958); the general operation behind Random Stimulation and Synectics.
Iceberg Analysis⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000760 **Origin.** Systems thinking (Meadows; Senge's levels of perspective).
Inner Child Conference⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000808 **Origin.** Transactional analysis / inner-child work in psychotherapy, repurposed as an ideation stance.
Jobs to Be Done⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000752 **Origin.** Christensen; earlier in Ulwick's outcome-driven innovation.
Lateral Thinking⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000760 **Origin.** de Bono (1967).
Metaphor Mapping⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000760 **Origin.** Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (1980).
Mind Mapping⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000728 **Origin.** Popularized by Buzan; the underlying structure is a rooted tree with radial layout.
Monomyth⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000696 **Origin.** Joseph Campbell, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (1949); Jungian archetypes.
Morphological Analysis⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000808 **Origin.** Fritz Zwicky (1940s).
Pirate Code⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000720 **Origin.** Ambiguous. Either the AARRR pirate metrics funnel (Dave McClure) or the 'guidelines, not rules' framing of negotiable constraint.
Provocation⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000720 **Origin.** de Bono. 'PO' marks an utterance as provocation rather than proposition.
Quantum Superposition⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000800 **Origin.** Metaphorical borrowing from quantum mechanics; no formal content.
Question Storming⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000768 **Origin.** Right Question Institute (QFT); Berger, A More Beautiful Question.
Random Stimulation⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000776 **Origin.** de Bono; a special case of Forced Relationships with a random rather than chosen stimulus.
Resource Constraints⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000792 **Origin.** Theory of constraints; the 'creativity loves constraint' literature (Stokes).
Reversal⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000696 **Origin.** Jacobi's dictum, 'invert, always invert'; formalized in de Bono's provocation family.
Reverse Brainstorming⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000800 **Origin.** Osborn; the same inversion as Reversal, applied to generation.
Role Playing⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000728 **Origin.** Moreno's psychodrama; adapted through Synectics and design research.
SCAMPER⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000688 **Origin.** Osborn's checklists (1953), assembled into the mnemonic by Eberle (1971).
Shadow Work Mining⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000776 **Origin.** Jungian shadow (the disowned contents of the psyche), applied to teams and organizations.
Six Thinking Hats⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000768 **Origin.** de Bono (1985).
SWOT Analysis⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000736 **Origin.** Albert Humphrey at Stanford Research Institute (1960s-1970s); widely adopted in strategic planning.
Synectics⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000704 **Origin.** Gordon and Prince, Arthur D. Little (1961).
Time Shifting⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000736 **Origin.** Scenario planning; historical counterfactual.
Time Travel Talk Show⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000800 **Origin.** Framing device; combines prospective hindsight with adversarial interview.
What If Scenarios⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000768 **Origin.** Counterfactual reasoning; scenario planning (Kahn, Wack).
Working Backward⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000760 **Origin.** Pólya's problem-solving heuristics; Amazon's "Working Backwards" product process; goal-regression in AI planning.
World Cafe⤓ .md 2026-07-13T062546.818 000000000000712 **Origin.** Brown and Isaacs (1995).