Business: The Synectics Method can be useful to any commercial enterprise, large or small, service or retail, faced with a difficult problem in any area.

Industry: Any company that engages in the manufacture of a marketable product/products, frequently has seemingly unsolvable problems that can benefit from the Synectics Method.

Organization: Because any group of people engaged in a systematic effort to reach a common goal is an organization, a multitude of problems frequently emerge in such an activity and the Synectic Method is a useful tool to solve such problems.

Management: Every organization requires management. This is the process of Planning, Organizing, Directing, Controlling (PODC) and Staffing the activities in a organization in a systematic manner to reach a common goal. Problems arising from such processes can benefit from the Synectics Method.