Creativity Loops–Based Decision Making

Hassan Qudrat-Ullah is a professor of decision sciences with the School of Administrative Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. Hassan has over 20 years of teaching, research, industry, and consulting experience in the USA, Canada, Singapore, Norway, UK, Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Latvia, Switzerland, Spain, and Pakistan. He is a well-known scholar in decision sciences, energy policy modeling, and system dynamics areas. He has authored and edited over 150 refereed publications including 17 books (including edited volumes), 43 journal articles, and numerous conference proceedings and presentations. In 2017, he won York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies’ Excellence in Research Award.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Creativity Loops-Based Decision Making: A Systems ThinkingApproach.- Chapter 2: Review of Literature and Models on Creativity and Decision Making.- Chapter 3: Creativity Loops–Based Decision Making (CLBDM): A NovelFramework for Enhancing Creativity in Decision Making.- Chapter 4: Problem Identification and CLBDM.- Chapter 5: Idea Generation and CLBDM.- Chapter 6: Idea Selection and CLBDM.- Chapter 7: Idea Development and CLBDM.- Chapter 8: CLBDM and the Idea Implementation Creativity Loops.- Chapter 9: Monitoring and Evaluating the Results and Feedback with CLBDM.- Chapter 10: CLBDM and A Way Forward.