| Article ID: | iaor2006652 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 1 |
| End Page Number: | 24 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2005 |
| Journal: | Investigao Operacional |
| Authors: | Vidal Ren Victor Valqui |
This paper presents some modern and interdisciplinary concepts about creativity and creative processes specially related to problem solving. Central publications of Creativity-OR are briefly reviewed. Creative tools and approaches suitable to support OR work are also presented. Finally, the paper outlines the author's experiences using creative tools and approaches to: Facilitation of problem solving processes, strategy development in organisations, and design of optimisation systems for large scale and complex logistic systems.