I’m sure many of you have taken the Myers Briggs personality profile, or perhaps the DISC profile. Well, I’ve recently been invited to participate in an innovation profile study and in an effort to do some preliminary research on the theory behind the study, I came across the Creative Problem Solving Profile.

You’ll have to register to see what your profile is. The one page screen asks you to rate yourself on a series of characteristics in problem solving and then places you in one of four quadrants:

  • Generator – suggests interests in problem finding and fact finding
  • Conceptualizer – suggests interests in problem definition and idea finding
  • Optimizer – suggests interests in idea evaluation and selection and action planning
  • Implementer – suggests interests in gaining acceptance and implementation

My profile came out (in order of most to least) Generator, Implementor, Conceptualizer, Optimizer.