Have you ever sat through a fruitless brainstorming session and wondered—who came up with this, anyway? It’s strange to imagine, but the concept of “brainstorming” was technically brainstormed by ...

Our brains’ creative flow isn’t time-bound the way the typical brainstorm is. Here are a few ways to shake things up. The typical brainstorm over-delivers on the latter and under-delivers on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of leadership and innovation. At some point, we’ve all been there—holed up in a meeting in hopeless ...

Early ideas tend to have disproportionate influence over the rest of the conversation. Sharing ideas in groups isn’t the problem, it’s the “out-loud” part that, ironically, leads to groupthink, ...

In the broadest sense, brainstorming is the collective consideration of ideas in order to arrive at a solution to a predefined problem. More strictly, it refers to a technique businesses can apply to ...

Peek inside any one of design firm Ideo’s conference rooms, which speckle the globe from Silicon Valley to Shanghai, and you will see what looks like the Ten Commandments of brainstorming etched onto ...

I've been using Notion to brainstorm for years, so it was interesting to see if Loop could be a replacement since I am heavily ingrained in Microsoft's ecosystem. After spending some time with it, I'm ...

In a higher education context in which students are increasingly seen as partners in the design of their learning, and change has become a recurrent imperative, an old tool remains that can unleash ...

Are you guilty of running brainstorming sessions by sitting round a whiteboard as a team? Here are eight techniques to try out if you want to come up with better content ideas. It all starts with an ...

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A controversy over brainstorming has been brewing for decades. Brainstorming was popularized by an advertising executive, Alex Osborn, back in the 1940s. Believed to be responsible for the creative ...