Abstract
dc:description.abstractThere are a variety of creative problem solving techniques. Selected techniques are compared and contrasted and an ideal type is developed. The Idea Machine (TIM) is introduced and the six major steps involved with the technique are described. Results of using TIM in conjunction with three projects are presented. Improvements in TI:M sessions are described and insights associated with sessions in the second project are highlighted. Evaluations by participants are introduced and discussed. TIM is compared with the ideal type technique. It is concluded that while TIM is not comparable to this ideal in every respect, evaluations suggest that it is an extremely effective creative problem solving technique.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph. D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Public Administration and Policy
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Public Administration and Policy
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1990
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Snellenburg, Sidney C.
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
-
- Dickey, John W.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
-
- Goodsell, Charles T.
- Wamsley, Gary L.
- White, Orion F. Jr.
- Wolf, James L.
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-08062007-094359
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/39050