Idea Selection

In my posts “Start, Stop, Continue” and “Exceptionalism: Focus on the Never” I talk about brainstorming techniques that help organizations choose new ideas to improve on their environment. In the above post, the author fivewhys,  gives us some other ways of selecting ideas.

Good Hunting

Related articles

• Brainstorming – Increasing Creativity and the Quantity and Usefulness of Ideas (nextstepconsult.wordpress.com)
• How We Brainstorm (markpeterdavis.com)
• First, Stop that Brainstorming? (laf.ee)
• Why The New Yorker’s Claim That Brainstorming “Doesn’t Work” Is An Overstatement And Possibly Wrong (bobsutton.typepad.com)
• Eight Tips for Fixing Your Brainstorming (leadershipforgood.org)

Five Whys

This is part 5 in my series on brainstorming techniques

We’ve covered a lot of ground in helping your groups create a lot of ideas. But what do you do with them all? And how do you make sure that the ones you leave behind really are dud ideas? There seem to be two main camps here

• choose your favourite, based on gut feel
• evaluate all ideas according to some fairly simple criteria

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