Creativity involves people envisioning new ideas, concepts and processes, as an alternative way of resolving and identifying problems and opportunities. Every day we all have to face needs, problems and decisions. We encounter new aspects of the human situation in educational, training and social spheres and we must keep pace with technological and organisational changes. Knowledge of the main methods of applied creativity will allow us to take advantage of the four chief characteristics of creativity within a work environment: fluidity, which involves the production of different ideas or products; flexibility, understood as the ability to change patterns of thought, generally avoiding habitual paths or procedures; originality or rarity of elements incorporated in ideas and, finally, expanding and embellishing projects with new concepts and details