Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

ENERGIZE YOUR BRAINSTORMING. In the same way, if we start a brainstorming session cold with a serious, uptight facilitator throwing out questions and problems to a stiff, conservative group, the chances of producing healthy ideas is minimal. Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their imagination.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria carried out a study in which they sent out the same academic paper to three groups of reviewers. The second group were told the paper was written by Sabiou Inoua, a relatively unknown PhD student. The third group were not told who the author was. Still good.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Find out what the round robin brainstorming technique is and how to utilize it below. We’ve talked about brainstorming and ideation many times before, and that’s because it is an essential part of the innovation and design thinking process. What is Round Robin brainstorming? . Round Robin brainstorming templates.

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helloFUTURE

MAY 29, 2022

?Many people think of brainstorming as a group activity. They picture a group of people sitting around a conference table with laptops and drawing boards. Other people think of brainstorming as a solo activity. They show a lone inventor locked in an attic. Both of these views are wrong.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

You would like the group to challenge assumptions, think differently and come up with plenty of radical proposals. With you there, it is very hard for your team to switch from normal meeting mode to creative brainstorm mode. Use brainstorm methods which depersonalise the ideas and encourage radical thinking. Here is the dilemma.

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IdeaScale

MAY 11, 2017

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how we can draw from brainstorming techniques to configure IdeaScale to support your organization in generating and collecting fresh and novel ideas. Last week, I enjoyed the latest episode of the Stanford Innovation Lab podcast about effective advance planning for a successful brainstorming session.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Networking : Engage with a diverse group of people in your industry or interests. Brainstorming Sessions : Organize brainstorming sessions with colleagues or friends. Attend networking events, join forums or online communities, and participate in discussions. Talking to people from different backgrounds can spark fresh ideas.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 7, 2024

It can be said that a brainstorm facilitator plays many roles during the course of a session. In both brainstorm facilitation and improvisational theater, you're trying to tap the creative imagination of people in order to create something new. FREE THE GENIE: Online brainstorming the easy way Idea Champions Illustration: gapingvoid

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

Whenever I ask my clients to tell me about the quality of their company's brainstorming sessions, they usually roll their eyes and grumble, noting several of the phenomena below. Group think 20. Hierarchy, turfs, and competing sub-groups 21. Recognize any of them in your organization? Lame facilitation 2. Hyper-seriousness 16.

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Svava

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Online Brainstorming need a bit of a boost? Improve Your Online Brainstorming Workshops Brainstorming workshops help solve a number of challenges, source new products, procedural improvements and more. Here are some simple tips that you can follow, to start improving the quality of your online brainstorming workshops today.

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Svava

MARCH 1, 2022

Brainstorming workshops are powerful tools for ideation, collaboration and innovation as a team and company. Pre-pandemic most brainstorming sessions were hosted in a conference room, using a whiteboard and several post-it notes. In 2019 most of us learned how to make due brainstorming in fully digital meetings.

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Svava

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

How to get the most from your team Setting up a brainstorming session can seem easy enough. Svava’s digital tool makes your brainstorming sessions more fun, and higher engagement leads to better ideas. Svava’s digital tool makes your brainstorming sessions more fun, and higher engagement leads to better ideas.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Let’s introduce more pictures into our meetings and in particular into our brainstorm meetings. You can use these pictures as a random stimulus where the group calls out ideas based on a picture. In small groups of two or three people pool their ideas and develop one or two to feed back to the whole group.

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Svava

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Contrary to most things in life, the key to effective brainstorming is not quality. Brainstorming techniques can be accomplished in several ways. When done right, brainstorming can expand general understandings and strengthen developmental processes. It is quantity. Yes, quantity. There isn’t a wrong way or a right way.

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

The False Promise of Traditional Brainstorming. In order to create innovative ideas, Osborne suggested that a group of people should engage in a "brainstorm", i.e. "using the brain to storm a creative problem—and doing so in commando fashion, with each stormer attacking the same objective."

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 5, 2023

Is it to share information, to make a decision, to brainstorm ideas, to build team spirit or to review and update status? If the meeting involves contentious issues, setting strategy, brainstorming or important decisions, it can help to have a skilled facilitator. Or in a small group you can go for walking meeting outside.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

80% Of Brainstorming Sessions Don’t Work. Redefine Brainstorming and Get Better Results. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. As the drawing suggests, please, let’s redefine brainstorming. Brainstorming is all group work.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

How many brainstorming sessions have you been in? You probably think brainstorming isn’t that bad. But research after research actually shows that brainstorming doesn’t work. Why Brainstorming Doesn’t Work. Five pairs of people can outperform one group of 10 on any task. What really came out of it?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 21, 2021

Brainstorm individually before discussing as a group. Brainstorming is meant to be the ultimate way for groups to be creative. But ironically, traditional brainstorming actually makes groups LESS creative. Remind yourself that you are creative. You are creative.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

Here is another brainstorm method for you to try – Roll the Dice. It works well with groups of 4 to 6 people and is excellent for forcing unusual combinations of ideas and settings. The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking?

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 19, 2021

00:26:00 – Having someone with ADHD in a group makes everyone else in the group more creative as well, as they expand the variety of what is talked about. 00:30:30 – How diverse groups work together in brainstorming sessions.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 3, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, innovation-leaning clients to upgrade the impact of their brainstorming sessions. Online poll ("The State of Brainstorming in Your Company"). Micro-Learning for Innovators. THE PROCESS FROM HERE: 1.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 15, 2024

Inability to facilitate productive brainstorming sessions that lead to actionable ideas and quantifiable results. Group Think: Conforming to peer pressure and the opinions of the majority. Inability to capture, organize, and evaluate the output of team brainstorming sessions.

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Rmukesh Gupta

OCTOBER 13, 2016

One of the meta skills that organisations will need to develop if they are to flex their innovation muscle is the ability to do great brainstorming sessions. Earlier in the day, I stumbled onto the below video in which Bill Burnett talks about practices that can help you make your next brainstorming session highly productive.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Brainstorming. Brainstorming is the most common and the most popular ideation technique in almost every industry. Brainstorming is all about the quantity of ideas and not the quality. The intention of a brainstorming session is to think collectively. The intention of a brainstorming session is to think collectively.

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Betterific

AUGUST 22, 2016

In this installment of brainstorming with an innovator , we invite Laurie Steiner , who won our wireless innovation competition. See below to learn more about Laurie’s fascinating good deeds and how ADDHD is the secret sauce to her brainstorming. MW : What do you do when you’re not brainstorming on Betterific?

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 12, 2018

When thinking about creativity in teams, we often imagine a bunch of people in front of a flipchart throwing on the paper whatever comes to their mind – brainstorming. But, what actually is brainstorming? This is why: most ideas produced during brainstorming sessions don’t work in reality, because of a lack of essential filters.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 23, 2019

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. Choose from a series of 40 brainstorm facilitation modules. Our 142-page brainstorm facilitation workbook.

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Betterific

AUGUST 2, 2016

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. You can check out our first Brainstorming with a winner edition, where we interviewed Dan Pick.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

To do this, Betterific offers a platform where users join brainstorms where a challenge is posed to its 25,000 strong and growing crowd team. Each brainstorm offers prizes for the best ideas, and the ideas can range from overhauling menus to coming up with new use cases for items. Your team and ours are better when they work together.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review. Focus groups are a time-honored way to gather public opinion as well.

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Idea to Value

MAY 4, 2022

Hal Gregersen , Professor at MIT and innovation specialist, found after interviewing more than 200 leaders in business, creativity and innovation that more effective than traditional brainstorming sessions were workshops where the first activity was not to define problems, challenges or generating ideas. Check your emotional temperature.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 29, 2022

And of the engineers, who were given an hour to brainstorm, those working face to face generated more ideas, and more creative ideas, than those using videoconferencing. Interestingly, when it came to selecting the best ideas to put forward, there was little difference in performance between in-person groups and videoconferences.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

To do this, Betteriffic offers a platform where users join brainstorms where a challenge is posed to its 25,000 strong and growing crowd team. Each brainstorm offers prizes for the best ideas, and the ideas can range from overhauling menus to coming up with new use cases for items.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 5, 2021

You may need input from a survey or focus group to help at this stage. Brainstorm this topic and come up with ideas which will appeal to some customers and make your new product stand out. From a customer perspective which are the most valuable and least valuable features? Prioritise the ideas by customer appeal and feasability.

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