Innovation is not a modern phenomenon. Problem-solving is central to humanity’s survival, and over the centuries we have devised a wide range of strategies that allow us to survive and to thrive. This text examines the tension between the objective planning required to understand a problem and the creative thinking within each of us that can leap to a workable solution. This text integrates frameworks that can harness the rigours of the rational mind and the power of our intuition to deliver ingenious results. This text offers the reader a toolkit that draws upon the best of current thinking in business and engineering, from the start-up communities of Silicon Valley to the problem solving of Russian heavy industry. This book is aimed at anyone that wants to forge a new path. The lone entrepreneur looking for the next big idea. The innovator that wants to change the way we live. The business team looking to inject new energy into their venture.