This is a classic from Brainstorming 101. When you’re stuck, the fastest way forward is often to generate as many ideas as ...

Brainstorming is big at most organizations today, but in becoming ubiquitous it has lost something. The invitation "Let's brainstorm about that" typically leads to a gathering in a conference room ...

The human mind is a complex system with billions of neurons that allow it to perform many functions, one of which is to think and generate ideas. Experts estimate that the mind thinks between 60,000 ...

In the broadest sense, brainstorming is the collective consideration of ideas in order to arrive at a solution to a predefined problem. More strictly, it refers to a technique businesses can apply to ...

Early ideas tend to have disproportionate influence over the rest of the conversation. Sharing ideas in groups isn’t the problem, it’s the “out-loud” part that, ironically, leads to groupthink, ...

Are you guilty of running brainstorming sessions by sitting round a whiteboard as a team? Here are eight techniques to try out if you want to come up with better content ideas. It all starts with an ...

In a higher education context in which students are increasingly seen as partners in the design of their learning, and change has become a recurrent imperative, an old tool remains that can unleash ...

I confess, the prospect of gathering my team together for a group pow-wow to collectively generate new ideas and engage in problem-solving makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. The problem is, traditional ...

The word “brainstorming” conjures up a vision of hell. It is someone saying, “Fire up the brainwaves barbecue.” It is trying desperately to work out where everyone else’s cursors have gone on a ...