Acknowledgments

I first must note that I am indebted to all those before me who laid the groundwork for the creative problem-solving process, especially Alex Osborn and Sidney Parnes, who also founded the Creative Education Foundation and the annual Creative Problem Solving Institute. I would like to thank Victoria Cliche, executive director of the Creative Education Foundation, for her many helpful comments. I would also like to acknowledge the organizations I worked with on framing challenges over the past years. I especially appreciate the support and input I have received from Anil Rathi and Kenton Williams of Idea Crossing, Mark Turrell of Imaginatik, and Jeffrey Baumgartner of JPB in Belgium. I would like to thank Nancy Grande for her dedicated work in helping me edit the manuscript (P.S., you, too, Panda!). I would like to express my deep appreciation to AMACOM acquisitions editor Adrienne Hickey, whom I now have had the pleasure of working with on another book. Finally, I would like to thank Erika Spelman for her copy-editing expertise.