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Re-Inventing Brainstorming – Ten Tenets for Better Idea Generation

Kevin Eikenberry

Brainstorming – the creation of new or possible ideas – is a critical part of any problem solving or creative process. We know that we must have ideas in order find solutions to problems. We even know that the more ideas we find, the better chance we’ll have of creating the [.]. We all know it.

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Rethinking Idea Generation

Management Excellence

Idea generation is core to everything we do in our organizations. It's too bad that we've been going about it all wrong!

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How is your idea generation routine generating ideas?

Jason Womack

Are you on the path to make your best better? If you are, in fact, how far along are you in that process? If you're starting, or halfway there, or thinking you've made it.try this out: Lay out a blank piece of paper, get a pen, and set a timer for 12 minutes. Yeah, just 12.

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Seven Reasons Brainstorming Fails

Lead Change Blog

There are too many ideas generated and no criteria for culling out the ones that need further input. But before a group is convened to “brainstorm”, consider these reasons why many “ brainstorms” fail: The people doing the brainstorming are there by mandate – not by desire. Send out an open invitation. Those who care most will show up.

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Leaders: Are You Coaching Your Teams for Creativity?

Management Excellence

There's little doubt creativity is vital in the workplace, and that idea generation is the enabler of creative problem solving and innovation. The better our teams and colleagues are at generating ideas, the better the odds of surviving and thriving in our topsy-turvy world.

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The Right Talent Mix For Developing Ideas

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Bocconi University suggests that the best approach might be to create ideas in the company of strangers and then develop those ideas with people you know well. When it comes to expanding and executing the idea, however, the study found that it’s best to work with people with whom you have strong ties.

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The Power of Serendipitous Encounters – Samsung is Building to Create People Collisions for Idea Generation

First Friday Book Synopsis

Such organizational structure, and such architectural structure, are detrimental to idea creation. Ideas are created by lots of cross-interest interaction. Isolated silos, where people only interact with folks within their silos, are so yesterday. And you can’t quite always “schedule” or “mandate” such interactions.