You’ve heard the expression “thinking ouside the box,” but do you know how to do it? There are some simple techniques for coming up with solutions “outside the box.”

Need creative solutions? If you want to go beyond the sit-and-think-about-it method, you need some good problem solving techniques. Try this one.

Of all the creative problem solving techniques used for innovation, the one that is the most fun is concept-combination.

Why is it that ideas can flow so freely sometimes and then be as elusive as a leaf floating down a stream? I’ve wondered that a lot when I was under a deadline, either at school or more recently for my livelihood.

Over the years I have used a few tricks to get me unstuck when I absolutely had to be creative at that moment with no option of waiting. The goal is to get the mind off the track it is on…that’s why you feel stuck. Your mind is closed in on one solution, one pa…