Can Computers Simulate Managerial Creativity?

Development in micro‐computer software packages is examined as they impinge on the area of creative problem solving in business. It is argued that skills in creative problem solving can do much to further organisational efficiency and effectiveness and that interactive computer systems have an important role to play. A review is provided of different computer aids to creative problem solving and an overview is given of the different approaches to management games. Many of the different kinds of management game are amenable to computerisation.