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The Basadur Innovation Research has been placed and made available for use around the globe.  We encourage you to enjoy and reference where applicable.  If you do reference our work, please provide a link from your content to the original article.

Research From 1982 – 1992

The following papers address creative problem solving and the ability to understand attitudes on divergent thinking

  1. Training in creative problem solving: Effects on ideation and problem finding in an applied research organization

  2. Measuring preference for ideation in creative problem solving training. 
  3. Usefulness of the ideation principle of extended effort in real world professional and managerial problem solving.
  4. Training effects on attitudes toward divergent thinking among manufacturing engineers.
  5. Needed research in creativity for business and industrial applications.

  6. Receptivity of Japanese managers to creative problem solving experiential training.

  7. Comparing attitudes towards divergent thinking of managers and non-managers before and after training.

  8. Identifying individual differences in creative problem solving styles

  9. Individual problem solving styles and attitudes towards divergent thinking before and after training.

  10. Training effects on the divergent thinking attitudes of Japanese managers.

SEE ABSTRACT SET 1982-1992
Research From 1992 – 1997

The following papers address enhancing the creative process in organizations and their impact and outcomes.

  1. Managing creativity.

  2. Using creativity to boost profits in recessionary times – broadening the playing field.

  3. Assessing ideational and evaluative skills and creative styles and attitudes.

  4. The new creative thinking skills needed for total quality management to become fact, not just philosophy.

  5. Impacts and outcomes of creativity in organizational settings.

  6. A new methodology for formulating ill-structured problems.

  7. Managing the creative process in organizations.

  8. Optimal ideation-evaluation ratios.

  9. Measuring divergent thinking attitudes related to creative problem solving and innovation management.

  10. Organizational development interventions for enhancing creativity in the workplace.

SEE ABSTRACT SET 1992-1997
Research From 1999 – 2004

The following papers address divergent and collaborative problem solving as a means of enhancing creativity.

  1. Improving the measurement of divergent thinking attitudes in organizations.

  2. Collaborative problem solving through creativity in problem definition: Expanding the pie.

  3. Understanding how creative thinking skills, attitudes, and behaviors work together: A causal process model.

  4. Increasing understanding of technology management through challenge mapping.

  5. Team performance and satisfaction: A link to cognitive style within a process framework.

  6. The economic, social, and psychological outcomes of implementing a deliberate process of organizational creativity.

  7. Crossing cultures: Training effects on the divergent thinking attitudes of Spanish-speaking South American managers.

  8. Using the creative problem solving profile (CPSP) for diagnosing and solving real-world problems.

  9. Reducing complexity in conceptual thinking using challenge mapping.

  10. Leading others to think innovatively together: Creative leadership.

SEE ABSTRACT SET 1999-2004
Research From 2005 – 2011

The following papers address cognitive problem solving and processes in organizations.

  1. Modeling applied creativity as a cognitive process: Theoretical foundations.

  2. Management: Synchronizing different kinds of creativity.

  3. The role of knowledge management in the innovation process.

  4. The impact of training on formulation of ill-structured problems.

  5. Cognitive problem solving style as related to person-vocation fit and person-organizational hierarchy level of fit.

  6. Creative problem solving style and cognitive work demands.

  7. How creativity relevant attitudes triggers behaviors, skills, and performance.

  8. Regulatory fit: How individuals progress through the stages of the creative process.

  9. The role of creative problem solving style in advice network formation and subsequent creative performance.

  10. Where are the generators?

SEE ABSTRACT SET 2005-2011
Research From 2011 – In Press

In the following papers we gain a better understanding on navigating the world of innovation with the Basadur Innovations Profile Assessment.

  1. Attitudes and creativity 

  2. Organizational development.

  3. Creative problem solving process styles, cognitive work demands, and organizational adaptability.

  4. Navigating the world of innovation.

  5. Information distribution, utilization, and decisions by new product development teams.

  6. Facilitating high quality idea evaluation using telescoping.

  7. Improved reliability and research applications of the Basadur Creative Problem Solving Profile (CPSP).

  8. Simplexity thinking and the Basadur Innovation Profile Assessment.

  9. Testing the validity of the Basadur Profile Innovation Assessment.

  10. Using the Basadur Profile to Advance Non-Structural Social Networks Innovation.

  11. Organizational development, second edition

  12. 4 Types of Innovators Every Organization Needs

SEE ABSTRACT SET 2011-In Press
More Research Articles Available Online

Basadur Innovation Research has been placed and made available for use around the globe. We encourage you to enjoy and reference where applicable. If you do reference our work, please provide a link from your content to the original article.

  1. ResearchGate.net
  2. academia.edu

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