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brainstorming
How do you do it?
Why brainstorm?
• Promotes your creative thinking• Generate
– Ideas– New concepts– Problem solutions
• Promotes liberated thinking
– Free of Judgment
Why brainstorm?
– All ideas should be voiced• Group sessions stimulate everyone's creative
thinking• Don't try to find the answer• Brainstorming promotes group relations
What goes
• Everything can be said
– No evaluation– No decisions until later– No criticism– No fine details
• Comes later during review• The more ideas, the better, the higher the chance of
success
What goes
• No idea is too
– Expensive– Exotic
– Bizarre– Trivial
• Encourage
– Existing idea
What goes
• Combinations• Adaptations• Improvements• Expansion
• Did you know the idea of velcro was conceived during a brainstorming session between NASA designers to find a replacement for zips on the spacesuits?
• The person came up with the idea when he thought of how thorns stick to your clothes.
•A piece of trivia for you
How do you do it?
• Self– Your subject is the Mind Map title– Imagine you have an "inner advisor" who gives
you ideas and solutions– Use tab to add your first idea off the title
• Shift-tab to add forthcoming ideas
– Stop• When ideas run dry
How do you do it?
• Have collected a sufficient number– Evaluate
• Delete Duplications• Delete those not relevant
– Organize
• Order according to preference–Use the Outliner
How do you do it?
–Click and drag– Expand on the favorites
• Add child branches with further detail• Group
– Assign
• A "recorder"– Records each idea
How do you do it?
• A session Leader– Controls who's turn it is to speak and
maintains the flow of ideas• Everyone else is "the panel"
– The more people the more ideas - but a group of 15+ is hard to manage
• The Leader and Recorder can participate too
– Proposing Ideas• Are spoken spontaneously
How do you do it?
• In rapid sequence• Don't elaborate (yet!)
– Setup
• Remind everyone the reason for the session
• Title the Mind Map with your subject• Have a quiet minute or two to think
before proposing– Commencing
How do you do it?
• The Recorder uses tab to add the first branch
–Ready for the first idea–Use shift-tab for subsequent ideas!
• You can go around the table clockwise to open the floor
– Stop
• When ideas run dry• Have collected a sufficient number
How do you do it?
– Evaluate
• Delete Duplications• Delete those not relevant
– Organize
• Order according to preference–Use the Outliner–Click and drag
How do you do it?
– Expand on the favorites
• Add child branches with further detail
About Brainstorming...
• Coined in 1948 by Alex Osborne (an advertising executive)
• Taps into the brain's capacity for lateral thinking & free association
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