Posts Tagged ‘brainstorm’

Six Great Ways to Ruin a Brainstorm

The brainstorm is the most popular group creativity exercise. It is quick, easy and it works. But many organizations have become frustrated with brainstorms and have stopped using them. They say brainstorms are old-fashioned and no longer effective. But the real reason for the frustrations is that the brainstorms are not facilitated properly. A well-run brainstorm is fun and energetic. It will generate plenty of good ideas. But a poor… » Continue

May 1 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: brainstorm, business, idea, meeting, thinking | 7 comments»

12 Ways to Upgrade Your Weekly Review

Fans of GTD will already be familiar with the weekly review. Weekly reviews are designed to give you uninterrupted thinking time each week. Instead of tackling the big questions of your life between coffee breaks and morning commutes, you can set aside time to do a review.

Weekly reviews are a great concept and I’ve used them faithfully for the past few years. But I’ve found… » Continue

January 29 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: brainstorm, gtd, journal, Productivity, review, think, to-do, weekly review | 28 comments»

Brainstorming Walls

Finding the right way to get ideas together, particularly amongst a group, can really impact results. Usually something large, easily viewed, and graphically versatile is best. Like a wall?

Turns out that brainstorming is an epigraphic activity — something best done on walls. Reading and writing on walls is a different function than reading a book. A broad wall-view is an ideal approach for collaborative design — multiple views in… » Continue

August 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: brainstorm | 4 comments»

7 Idea Dumping Tips

Now days I see the important of dropping things down. I have flow of ideas suddenly, and I need to ready myself so if it happens, I can drop down the ideas. And I like to be in that situation where I get ideas. LifeDev has the similar experience and provides 7 tips on when, where and how to effectively dump your ideas:

ALWAYS carry paper
Be descriptive when writing it down
Plan

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August 17 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: brainstorm, idea | 4 comments»

How brainstorming works best

True, brainstorming session seems not effective at all. Group think and silence-of-death etc are lethal for the discussion. There are ways to improve the effectiveness of brainstorming from a group. A web site called Post-gazette suggests having individual to brainstorm alone may decrease group think and improve discussions:

…David Perkins, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, warns that sometimes group sessions can result in one person’s bad idea… » Continue

June 15 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: brainstorm, meeting | 1 comment»

Precious Moments

The doorway to real change isn’t open often, so the times when it is (those “teachable moments”) are too precious to waste. Here’s how to use them to the full. » Continue

January 30 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, brainstorm, change, creativity, idea | 1 comment»

Hackers’ Deck

To think outside of the box, you need some kind of randomness.

This is why we developed the “Hackers’ Deck” for our marketing event sponsored by Yahoo! JAPAN. This nifty deck of cards can magically generate ideas for Internet businesses.

On each card, it has “service” and “feature”. For example, on “service” are “instant messenger”, “auction site”, “IP-phone”, etc… and on “feature” are “for seniors”, “invitation only”, “detachable”, etc.

How… » Continue

November 25 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: brainstorm, Lifehack, Productivity | 4 comments»

Tips For Personal Brainstorming

Chuck Frey over at Creativity For Life has some tips to increase your effectiveness on personal problem-solving skills. Think about there is a time you are solving a problem, and the challenge is too big that you want to give up. How should you tackle it? Chuck suggested two steps: State your problem clearly, and then brainstorm solutions. The main message from him is to write everything that you can… » Continue

October 7 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: brainstorm, creativity, problem, solving | no comments»