Jay Ripton is a business consultant and freelance business, marketing and technology writer out of Tampa. Brainstorming sessions are a great way to develop new ideas and take the team’s input, but ...

In marketing and other high-level business decisions, it’s important to be able to generate creative new ideas. Group brainstorming sessions can bring everyone together for a collaborative opportunity ...

Brainstorming sessions should never be a test or a devious way to get your team in agreement with the new idea that you deeply believe in. If you have the answer already, you don’t need a ...

Now that the pandemic is settling in for a longer run than expected, many businesses are having to shift from “Let’s wait this out” to “What do we do now?” Some organizations have the option of simply ...

We’ve all been in that brainstorming meeting: the one where you could hear a pin drop, and the white board of “great ideas” remains blank. It’s awkward for participants and downright excruciating for ...

Throwing your employees in a conference room and announcing "Let's brainstorm!" is a good way to encourage collaboration and innovation. But, in order to manage an effective brainstorming session, you ...

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The IDAGIO team officially started working remotely this week. The same week I was supposed to run brainstorming sessions, in-person, with people who don’t usually “do brainstorming.” I spoke to the ...

Ah, the joys and pains — mostly pains, it seems — of brainstorming. Everyone sits in a room with three ideas in their head and 300 worries about ways this supposedly fun, free-form thinking could go ...

Your customers have a wealth of ideas for improving your business, but it’s likely the secret to getting the most innovative ones has proved elusive. Suggestion boxes don’t work well because there’s ...

Brainstorming was invented by advertising executive Alex Osborn in 1939 and first published in 1942 in his book How to Think Up. This is a typical description, from James Manktelow, founder and CEO of ...

The moment a great idea or solution hits you can feel like magic—like it’s been delivered whole to you by some divine being. But what usually ends up happening is quite the opposite—we’re floundering ...