Brainwriting

Brainwriting is a silent, written idea generation method that boosts participation and avoids groupthink in collaborative innovation.

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Prioritization

The resolving of questions of central importance for a company that aligns with its strategy, market and needs.

IBM

IBM is a multinational tech company known for IT services, hardware, and software innovation, including AI, cloud computing, and more.

Investments

Innovation Investments is the money and resources allocated to the innovation effort with the expectation of a future return.

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Creative Ideas at the First #Ideachat

Creative Ideas at the First #Ideachat

Twitter's #ideachat discusses the importance of collaboration and surrounding yourself with the right people to generate innovative ideas.

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Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group?

Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group?

What is the ideal group size for brainstorming? The right team size should balance diversity, active participation, and expected number of ideas to maximize creative thinking.

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Four Different Brainstorming Methods to Try at Your Next Meeting

Four Different Brainstorming Methods to Try at Your Next Meeting

Brainstorming is a powerful technique used to generate ideas and promote innovation. Here are four different ways to conduct brainstorming sessions with your team.

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Friday Shrimp Special - Creating HUGE Ideas from Tiny Ones

Friday Shrimp Special - Creating HUGE Ideas from Tiny Ones

Learn how the creative thinking exercise "Shrimp" can turn ho-hum, tiny ideas into bigger, more dramatic breakthrough ideas by pushing your team's creativity to an outlandish and dangerous point.

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How and Why You Want to Strip Great Ideas of their Identity

How and Why You Want to Strip Great Ideas of their Identity

Eliminate bias towards ideas from certain individuals, and increase creative output by making ideas anonymous.

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How Do You Kickstart An Innovation Process?

How Do You Kickstart An Innovation Process?

Innovation requires a practical approach. Collaboration platforms create an environment that fosters creativity and allows people to show their genius.

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Innovation Tautogram — A Simple and Powerful Innovation Tool

Innovation Tautogram — A Simple and Powerful Innovation Tool

Learn about the Innovation Tautogram technique, a powerful brainstorming tool that can help discover new products and services by selecting a letter of the alphabet to create a list of words to guide the innovation process.

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Integrating Agile with Stage-Gate® – How New Agile-Scrum Methods Lead to Faster and Better Innovation

Integrating Agile with Stage-Gate® – How New Agile-Scrum Methods Lead to Faster and Better Innovation

Agile methods like Scrum can be integrated with Stage-Gate to reduce development time and increase success rates of new products.

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Making a Panel Discussion Better – 7 Ideas for Event Planners

Making a Panel Discussion Better – 7 Ideas for Event Planners

Improving panel discussions can lead to a more compelling audience experience at business conferences. Here are seven ideas to make them better.

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Methods to Generate Ideas in Design Thinking - Innovation Training |

Methods to Generate Ideas in Design Thinking - Innovation Training |

Learn how to generate more and better ideas with these 8 innovative brainstorming techniques including Scenario Mapping, Blue Ocean 4 Actions Framework, Disney Create Strategy, How Now Wow Matrix, Reverse Brainstorming, Random Word Brainstorming, Round Robin Brainstorming, and AI Ideation.

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Online brainstorming sessions: The beginner’s guide

Online brainstorming sessions: The beginner’s guide

Online brainstorming sessions enable teams to generate new ideas, explore possibilities, and collaborate in real-time. In this blog post, you will learn how to organize an online brainstorming session, including the advantages of using this approach, selecting participants, setting up the playing field, and next steps after brainstorming.

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Physical and Digital Brainstorming Combined

Physical and Digital Brainstorming Combined

Physical and digital brainstorming both have advantages and disadvantages, but they complement each other. The combination of the two is the ultimate brainstorming technique.

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Re-Inventing Feedback for a Business Agile Approach

Re-Inventing Feedback for a Business Agile Approach

Enterprises shifting to a business agile approach must focus on re-inventing their feedback mechanisms. This can lead to faster and better results, but requires changes in presentation, prioritization, and authorization.

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Rules for Brainstorming: A Guide to Effective Brainstorming

Rules for Brainstorming: A Guide to Effective Brainstorming

Brainstorming is a controversial technique that can be improved with modern adaptation. This article provides practical steps and up-to-date rules for successful brainstorming sessions.

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Rules for brainstorming success

Rules for brainstorming success

Brainstorming is an essential tool for ideation in innovative companies, but certain rules must be followed to ensure its success, including thinking outside the box, focusing on quantity over quality, involving everyone, and postponing judgment.

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Tips for better brainstorming

Discover simple tips for better brainstorming to help your team come up with innovative and unique ideas faster.

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Using a Timer Will Make Your Meetings Instantly Better

Meetings can be more effective by using a timer to set out an agenda and keep people focused, leading to faster decisions, increased engagement and more successful collaborations.

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Utilizing Coaches for Leadership Development and Innovation

Utilizing Coaches for Leadership Development and Innovation

Coaches can help individuals and organizations reach their full potential by identifying areas of opportunity, setting goals, brainstorming, challenging perspectives, holding accountable, and boosting confidence.

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What is Brainstorming? (+ How to hold an effective brainstorming session)

Learn about the basics of brainstorming, why people do it and how it is done in this article.

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What is brainstorming?

Brainstorming is a helpful ideation method for creating new ideas. In this article, we cover the importance of group brainstorming, how to succeed in it, and different techniques.

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What to Blog about in a Guest Post

What to Blog about in a Guest Post

Guest bloggers often struggle with what to write about for innovation blogs. This post offers 15 potential topics, as well as a brief explanation of the Brainzooming blog persona.

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When Collaboration Doesn’t Work – and Never Will

Collaboration may not always be beneficial for project management success, especially during brainstorming sessions, when the best person or group has ownership, and when a suitable collaborative work management system is not established.

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Where Does Brainstorming Fit in a Workflow Diagram?

Brainstorming is a crucial component to a team's workflow, and incorporating it at various stages can optimize ideas and create the best end result.

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Your Offsite Meeting Checklist for Productive Strategic Planning

Your Offsite Meeting Checklist for Productive Strategic Planning

Planning an offsite strategy meeting? Use this checklist to ensure productive engagement and collaboration among your executive team.

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Six tools to improve your creativity during an innovation process

Six tools to improve your creativity during an innovation process

The majority of the most successful innovation methodologies give creativity a strong role. Check out 6 tools that can help you.

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Brainstorm cards

Brainstorm cards

Board of Innovations corporate ideation game, with 52 triggers to generate new business ideas.

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11 Templates for Brainstorming

11 Templates for Brainstorming

These top ideation and brainstorming templates from Miro can be used with your team remotely or in the same room.

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