One of the downsides of traditional brainstorming sessions is that they favor extroverts. To participate, you need to interject ideas with lots of energy and enthusiasm. Nothing quashes introverts’ ...

In marketing and other high-level business decisions, it’s important to be able to generate creative new ideas. Group brainstorming sessions can bring everyone together for a collaborative opportunity ...

I’ve written before about the value of brainstorming, the electricity that fills the air as colleagues share their ideas and those ideas begin to gel. The brainstorming I talked about happened in a ...

But the problem for many companies isn’t a lack of ideas. More often, it’s a lack of high-quality ideas, and poor practices for supporting the transformation from idea to innovation — i.e., the ...

[ Don’t call it a brainstorm: 10 tips for better innovation ] 1. Agree on the clear objective(s) of the brainstorming – Ensure everyone agrees on and understands the overall objectives of the session.

Now that the pandemic is settling in for a longer run than expected, many businesses are having to shift from “Let’s wait this out” to “What do we do now?” Some organizations have the option of simply ...

You’ve probably been brainstorming wrong. That’s the conclusion you can reach from popular books like Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. Cain argues that ...

While most business owners know the value of consistently posting content on their blogs, many struggle with deciding on what topics to write about. In fact, not knowing what to write about is one of ...

Of course you know that brainstorming is an essential collaborative process for generating ideas. And you know that a brainstorming session is often the best way to develop innovative concepts or to ...