How can you get your team to generate more creative and diverse ideas? Here’s a hint: It’s not by scheduling a brainstorm session, packing a room full of people, and freely blurting out ideas. If ...

Gathering your team in a soulless conference room staring at a white board is not where colorful ideas come from. Getting together with friends over a bottle of wine (or two) is equally inefficient.

Mind mapping is a visual technique that involves creating diagrams to represent ideas, tasks, or concepts branching out from a central theme. It’s also why I quickly became comfortable with the ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank page, struggling to organize your thoughts or kickstart a brainstorming session? It’s a frustrating feeling—one we’ve all experienced at some point.

There’s nothing wrong with scrawling down thoughts using pen and paper, but that task gets complicated when you need to take into account the thoughts of colleagues who may be one desk over or ...

Have you ever walked into a brainstorming session full of hope, only to leave feeling like nothing meaningful was accomplished? Many of us have experienced those chaotic meetings where ideas are ...

http://images.spaceref.com/news/hand.earth.moon.stars.jpg NASA is seeking input on the creation of the NASA Open Government Plan. As outlined in the Open Government ...

This week’s column is the latest on root cause analysis tools for managers. The topic we'll be discussing is brainstorming. I would like to begin by saying that brainstorming is not only a great ...