The processing of creative ideas happens best in an unpressured, calm space, away from normal business activity, deadlines and interruptions. Campbell 10

(as does thought-meditation) and stimulates learning and creativity, so background Mozart can be helpful.

perception – shifting of a frame of reference – by means such as provocation, random stimulation, metaphors, word associations, and parallel (cooperative, non-argumentative) thinking. Something else that is powerful is the development of the Japanese Gemba attitude – going to or being in the place where it all happens. It’s a bit like the success of Jeffery Deaver’s brilliant quadriplegic criminologist whose first move is always to send his assistant Amelia Sachs to walk the grid at the scene of the crime. The related incremental- improvement technique of Genchi Genbutsu, is one which

Teaching techniques and methods Some training may be needed to provide knowledge, understanding and confidence in utilising the key factors leading to creativity. Think of, for example, Edward de Bono’s proven techniques and tools. It was he who first coined the term ‘lateral thinking’. De Bono11

focuses on changing

suggests that music enlarges neural pathways