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LEGO Serious Play

When was the last time you attended a business meeting where every person actually joined in? The team found new solutions to old problems? And, you had fun playing with
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Mood boards

Mood Boards

Click here for Online Mood Boards Long a favourite of professional designers, mood boards are a curated collection of random images, words and textures brought into focus by a single reference point.
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Lotus Blossom

Created by Yasuo Matsumura, a management consultant working in Japan, the Lotus Blossom may look elaborate, but it’s a simple creative exercise which uses free association to create ideas. You begin
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New Point of View

Easily one my favourite brainstorm techniques, New Point of View is a classic mental excursion. Excuse me, excursion? A creative excursion is not a literal journey but a mental one.
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SCAMPER, Part 2

For those of you who like the first post on the SCAMPER exercise, here are more details, questions and synonyms for you to try. But first, a gentle reminder ,,,
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SCAMPER, Part 1

SCAMPER is one of the most well-known brainstorm techniques. The brainstorm exercise first appeared in Alex Osborn’s book Applied Imagination (1953). He outlined a series of challenge questions about a product or
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Laddering

Examples of Questions Instructions Basic Questions Laddering is a research technique which analyses the benefits and features of a product, service or issue, and connects those attributes to a target
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16 Ways to Be a Better Brainstormer

I talk often about how to facilitate a better brainstorm, but this time I want to focus on the participants themselves – specifically, how can you be a better brainstormer
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Problem Solving the Cause or Effect

Understanding and articulating the problem (“a less than ideal state” says Gene Agre in The Concept of a Problem (1982) is the most crucial step in creative thinking. But, it’s
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More Brainstorm Icebreakers! (Part 2)

This is a follow-up post to one of my most popular articles: Brainstorm Icebreakers. People working at their desk need to clear their mind and switch gears before they come into a
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