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Four Popular Brainstorming Techniques – and why they work

Svava

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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The Remarkable Benefits of Digital Brainstorming

Qmarkets

The False Promise of Traditional Brainstorming. In 1948, Alex Osborn, a partner in the famous advertising agency B.B.D.O. There is, however, a big problem with Osborne's idea of brainstorming: It doesn’t work! Why Traditional Brainstorming Does Not Work.

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What if the current use of your product were banned?

Destination Innovation

’ It was voted the best advertising slogan of the 20th century. Its advertising tag line was ‘Lucozade aids recovery’ Mothers bought it for their sick children. SCAMPER is a powerful brainstorming technique in which seven verbs are used to generate fresh ideas for a product. The P stands for Put to Other Use.

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Unleash the Power of Lateral Thinking for Inspired Innovation

IdeaScale

There are a few ways of doing this that are worth trying, especially in the brainstorming phase. How would you advertise to this market if you had no advertising budget? How would you advertise if you had to do everything on a personal basis? How would you advertise if you only had email?

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3 Innovation Specialists Busting the Myth About Brainstorming

Innovation in Practice

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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Brainstorming with an expert, Matt Nelson

Betterific

In this installment of “Brainstorming with an [innovation] expert” we invite Matt Nelson from Hyundai. Every company I’ve seen use DesignThinker creates their own “special sauce”, from the naming of the process phases to the helper terms that aid in brainstorming. company (size, culture, structure, etc.),

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Why You Need to Defer Judgment During the Ideation Phase of a Brainstorming Session

Idea Champions

Big thanks to Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions' Director of Training, for this timely article on the importance of deferring evaluation during the ideation phase of a brainstorming session. This principle of "deferring evaluation" of ideas until later has been a bedrock principle of brainstorming ever since. Why does this work?