If you’ve ever been assigned the job of recording meeting minutes, you most likely dreaded the task. We all know keeping track of what’s been discussed is important, but for some reason, no one wants […]

Meetings can veer off-topic very easily as team members raise additional questions that weren’t on the agenda. While it’s likely the additional topics are important, they will throw the discussion in a new direction. Suddenly […]

Reverse brainstorming, also known as negative brainstorming  is technique that invites teams to think of problems, instead of solutions. But why? Because if you can identify with potential problems before commencing a project, you’ll be […]

How does your brain come up with something if you’ve never seen it before? Well, for the complex neuroscience explanation behind imagination watch this TED Talk, but for a more applicable approach, we want to […]

Round Robin brainstorming is a collective approach to brainstorming. It’s a two-step process, first using the How Might We concept of divergent problem solving, before converging to refine the idea. It employs an iterative circular […]

Love it or hate it, brainstorming has cemented itself as the go-to strategy for problem solving in business. But, it does have some drawbacks. For example, traditional brainstorming techniques (people seated around a whiteboard calling […]

When you want to ideate quickly during a design sprint or brainstorming, the Crazy Eights technique is a great way to produce a wide range of diverse ideas from the whole team. The concept is […]

Some of the world’s biggest companies including Google and Facebook have introduced three simple words to spark innovation: How Might We. The How Might We technique employs a language trick to open up creative thinking. […]

What is an Affinity Diagram? Brainstorming is a great way to come up with creative ideas as a team. But it isn’t the most structured way to work with this board full of ideas and […]