Works
- The Practice of Creativity: A Manual for Dynamic Group Problem Solving, Synectics, Inc.; Harper and Row edition 1970, 1969
In Thinking Tools
Known for
With William J. J. Gordon he developed Synectics at Arthur D. Little's Invention Design Unit in the 1950s, a method of group problem solving that uses analogy and metaphor to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange. His manual sets out its meeting practices, among them the itemized response, which answers a new idea first with its advantages and then with its concerns phrased as problems to solve.