PROCESS 7 | GROUP 1: CPS
OSBORN-PARNES CPS PROCESS MODEL
1976
(VERSION 2.2) ORIGINAL PROCESS VIEW
ORIGIN Developed by Alex F. Osborn and Sidney J. Parnes. SOURCE
Noller R. B., S. J. Parnes, and A. M. Biondi. Creative Actionbook. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,1976. Isaksen, S., and D. Treffinger. Celebrating 50 Years of Reflective Practice: Versions of Creative Problem Solving. The Creative Problem Solving Group, 2008. Copyrights of all process models remain with copyright holders.
ANALYSIS NOTES • Among the most influential creative problem finding/solving (CPS) process models ever created. • This is an eight-step process model known inexplicably as the “Five Stage Osborn-Parnes CPS Model.” 1. Mess, 2. Fact Finding, 3. Problem Finding, 4. Idea Finding, 5. Solution Finding, 6. Acceptance Finding, 7. Plan, 8. Action • Note that the steps of Mess, Plan and Action were graphically depicted here as outside the (divergent/convergent) diamonds. • Most early CPS models, including this one, do not indicate Language Mode graphically.
Humantific for OPEN Innovation Consortium
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Innovation Methods Mapping