Applied Imagination
Applied Imagination is an influential 1953 book on creative ideation by Alex Faickney Osborn, in which he introduces the technique of brainstorming.
Chapters
- The all-importance of imagination
- Indispensability of creativity in science
- Careers depend largely on creativity
- Creativity in leadership and professions
- Imagination can improve personal relations
- Universality of imaginative talent
- Ways by which creativity can be developed
- Our new environment - its effect on creativity
- Other factors that tend to cramp creativity
- Creative and non-creative forms of imagination
- The process of ideation vary widely
- Orientation calls for setting our sights
- Preparation and analysis go hand in hand
Editions
- Osborn, Alex F.. Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem Solving. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
- *Revised edition, New York, Scribner, 1957
- *3rd ed. New York C. Scribner 1963
- *French translation by Georges Rona and Pierre Dupont, L'Imagination constructive. Principes et processus de la Pensée créative et du Brainstorming, Paris, Dunod, 1959.
- *Chinese translation by Ikkō Shō, 応用想像力 Taipei : Kyōshi Kōgyō Sōsho Shuppan Kofun Yūgen Kōshi, 1965