Applied Imagination
# 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. (1953). Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem Solving. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. OCLC 641122686
   * Revised edition, New York, Scribner, 1957 OCLC 1381383
   * 3rd ed. New York C. Scribner 1963 OCLC 757425639
   * 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 OCLC 673537763
