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Three principles to help you generate better ideas

Jeffrey Phillips

Recently I've stumbled upon another historical artifact that illuminates idea generation. The booklet is entitled A Technique for Producing Ideas , and it offers great philosophical insight into how to improve your skill at generating ideas. His quote about advertising is especially apropos. "In

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Four Popular Brainstorming Techniques – and why they work

Svava

Remember to be open to all ideas as that leads to several valid ideas generated. When done right, brainstorming can expand general understandings and strengthen developmental processes. Individuals and groups alike use brainstorming techniques to dissertate concepts and creative ideas.

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Brainstorming with an expert, Matt Nelson

Betterific

In Matt’s explanation of “how an idea becomes a product” you’ll notice that idea generation is the fourth stage of the process. Because Betterific and our members focus exclusively on the idea generation and concept validation phase, it’s great to get some context and understand the greater picture.

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3 Innovation Specialists Busting the Myth About Brainstorming

Innovation in Practice

This is how Mark McGuinness defines the term: “‘Brainstorming’ is such a common word that it’s often used to describe any meeting or conversation designed to generate ideas. The basic assumption is that by suspending judgement, people free themselves to come up with unusual and potentially useful ideas.

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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. You know the cure.

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Challenge Deployment Toolkit: A Strategic Approach to Scaling Innovation Program Engagement

Planview

This results in more ideas generated, including diversity of ideas, and ultimately more output. As a side note, we see more and more clients taking this approach and generating challenge demand by advertising their Challenge Intake Forms open on their Spigit site(s).).