ICI-37 Workshop: Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
Tools and techniques to develop a structured critical thinking approach and tackle complex intelligence challenges
In ever-changing and fierce competitive environments, critical thinking is key to out-maneuvering the competition, improving the quality of intelligence analysis, and injecting creativity into problem-solving processes.
At this ICI workshop you’ll learn all the professional skills and techniques you need to generate and test hypotheses, avoid cognitive biases, structure problems, generate ideas, and think out of the box. By applying these approaches, you’ll be able to analyze problems effectively and develop successful solutions.
Critical and creative thinking can improve individual analytical performances and enhance group work. Recent insights from scientific brain plasticity research are integrated in the thinking processes taught at the workshop. Using case studies, you’ll learn how to put these techniques into practice and how to run your own workshops.
Workshop Focus
- How to structure and visualize complex challenges: decomposition, mind maps, concept maps.
- Idea generation through structured brainstorming/brainwriting, 6 thinking hats, cross-impact analysis, lotus blossom analysis, fishbone diagrams, and indicator/trend analysis, …
- Challenge analysis: start thinking out of the box with pre-mortem analysis, red hat/team analysis, devil’s advocate, and outside-in thinking.
- Generation and testing of hypotheses.
- Types of intuitions and how to train them for decision processes – data driven or intuitive?
- Decision-making: scenarios, decision-making matrices, pros-cons faults and fixes analysis, …
- Facilitating techniques to enhance the performance of critical and creative thinking workshops.
- Creativity in groups: meta and expert knowledge, creativity impulses. Master and reduce complexity in group works.
Additional Dates
Next date
| Start Date | Oct 30, 2025 9:00 |
| End Date | Oct 30, 2025 18:00 |
| Price | € 695* (excl. VAT) |
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| Workshop Schedule |
September 30, 13:00-17:00 (Berlin time) |
| Participation | On-site or Remote |
| Categories | Workshops, CCIM, Advanced Workshops, ICI-37, Europe, Asia, Americas, Africa, 1day Workshops , Hybrid |
