Lateral Thinking is Divergent Thinking

Lateral Thinking is Divergent Thinking

Lateral thinking is hypothesizing the alternate ways of solving a problem. It involves divergent thinking and, at times, intuition. People can be trained to think laterally. Developing a culture of divergent thinking facilitates lateral thinking.

		Satish Talikota Management Consultant, India
	Lateral Thinking is Divergent Thinking Seems like the lateral thinking method accommodates out of the box thinking, which we commonly apply for a solution deadlock and when there is no clue on something, which is so important these days.

		Nicola Rovetta CxO / Board, Italy
	Divergent and Convergent Thinking I attended a workshop held by a company probably having this as one of their properties, but they basically divide in "Divergent" and "Convergent" thinking. And they are not mutually excluding, but recursively alternating. First you diverge (lateral) to space out and include also extreme possibilities; then you converge (vertical) sharpening the best ideas into reality and feasibility.