It is well-known that leading firms are more innovative than others, with far more sales from new products. This paper suggests that what kinds of creatively techniques can be a, pp.ied to new product development process for the purpose of commercial success. Both divergent and convergent techniques are considered at each stage of new product development process. Some typical creativity techniques such as boundary examination, bug list, manipulative verbs, morphological analysis, SCAMPER, and TRIZ are explained with case examples.