Abstract
Heuristics are widely accepted and used as tools for inventive problem solving. A problem when using heuristics is that their number is relatively high and ever growing (469 heuristics were analyzed only in this research). This amount of heuristics makes it necessary for problem solvers to spend a significant amount of time in understanding them, finding the most suitable ones to their specific situations and using them. This article presents a first step towards decreasing this complexity. The main heuristics to solve inventive problems were synthesized into a single list, whose preparation involved the identification of heuristics in literature, followed by a qualitative analysis through a comparison process, resulting in a final list of 263 heuristics. The authors hope that this list can save problem solvers’ time and become a basis for a future, essential set of inventive problem solving heuristics.
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