There are countless ways to brainstorm, but humans are creatures of habit. You probably haven’t broken out of your go-to methods since you were forced to in college. That’s OK, because it just means ...

One problem with people is that they’re loud. As Leigh Thompson notes in Fortune, in your standard four-person group, two people will do 62% of the talking, while in a six-person group, three people ...

This is a classic from Brainstorming 101. When you’re stuck, the fastest way forward is often to generate as many ideas as ...

Nowadays, brainstorming is a highly common practice in companies where teamwork is indispensable. The core idea behind the brainstorming strategy is to get access to the group's collective wisdom in ...

You have a problem. You gather a group of smart, creative people and say, Let’s brainstorm. Together, you bounce around a bunch of ideas, whittling and honing them until you arrive at it: The Solution ...

Team brainstorming seems like a good idea–at least, on paper. What usually happens is this: the company is experiencing a tough problem that no single person seems able to solve, so someone decides ...

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 ...

The word “brainstorming” conjures up a vision of hell. It is someone saying, “Fire up the brainwaves barbecue.” It is trying desperately to work out where everyone else’s cursors have gone on a ...

Everyone brainstorms a little differently, but over on the MIT Sloan Management Review they've put together a seven step plan that should help make the brainstorming process more fruitful. Different ...

We know software can be agile. Can teeth be agile too? Our Agile Architect shows how practicing brainstorming can be an important way to find novel solutions to tough problems. We had a problem. For ...