Brainstorming is an ideation technique in which all participants can contribute their knowledge. It is frequently used as a “brain dump” so that everybody on the team has a chance to make their ideas and solutions known. This procedure helps people clear their heads. This technique has no limits.
Aims of the session: Generate many ideas that the team spontaneously comes up with. Use the entire creativity potential of the participants.
Group: several groups of 4 or 6 people
Duration: 5-15 min.
Materials needed: Post-its. Pens. Wall or Whiteboard
Step 1. Ask participants to write their ideas on a Post-it.
Step 2. After a certain period, one person begins to stick his own ideas on a flip chart and explain them. If there is already a similar Post-it, another one is glued next to it.
Step 3. During the explanations of the other team members, new ideas are generated (ideation) and written on new Post-its.
Step 4. The result is a clustered collection of ideas, which can be later evaluated.
This brainstorming session will allow to have a high number of ideas at hand in a short period of time. These ideas come from an interdisciplinary perspective on a problem that represents different skills and knowledge.