Rocking Your Next Brainstorming Session!

I am sure that at some point in your career, you have been either invited to or hosted a brainstorming session to come up ideas. Ideas to either solve a specific problem or to create a new product or service or for something else altogether.  Most brainstorming sessions don’t work. They either don’t get the creative ideas that you expect to come up with or nothing happens after the brainstorming, which leads to a feeling of fun but wasted time. But it need not be like that. I’ve hosted more than 200 brainstorming sessions and what I have learnt is that these […]

Making Brainstorming Work

One of the most important skill that businesses need to develop is their ability to continuously innovate and stay ahead of their competition. One of the meta skills that organisations will need to develop if they are to flex their innovation muscle is the ability to do great brainstorming sessions. Earlier in the day, I stumbled onto the below video in which Bill Burnett talks about practices that can help you make your next brainstorming session highly productive. Before, I share my views on this topic, pls take a few minutes to actually watch the video below. Top Reasons why brainstorming sessions fail: […]