- Creativity techniques: Brainstorming
- Reverse Brainstorming
- Combined brainstorming
- Question brainstorming
- Stop-and-go Brainstorming
- Gordon-little variation
- Rawlinson brainstorming
- Kaleidoscope Brainstorming Technique
- Wildest Idea Technique
- Individual brainstorming
- Brainwriting
- Individual brainwriting
- Group brainwriting technique
- Brainwriting pool (BP)
- 6-3-5 Brainwriting
- The Gallery method
- Brainwriting game
- Constrained brainwriting
- Round-Robin and Roundtable brainstorming
- Group passing technique
- Nominal group technique
- The Buzz session
- Rolestorming technique
- Rotating roles
- Blue slips technique
- The Pin card technique
- The K-J method
- Snowballing technique
- Team Idea mapping
- The classic cluster brainstorming method
- Card story boards
- Trigger method
- Imaginary brainstorming
- Air cliché
- Battelle-Buildmappen-Brainwriting
- Visual brainstorming
- Rightbraining
- Braindrawing
- Electronic or online brainstorming
Team Idea mapping, the essence and procedure steps
The team idea mapping method is based on association. It may improve collaboration and increase the quantity of ideas, and is designed so that all attendees participate and no ideas are rejected.
Procedure steps:
1. The process begins with a well-defined topic.
2. Each participant brainstorms and gathers ideas individually.
3. All participants bring together and share the meaning of each of their ideas.
Then their ideas combined to form an immense map of ideas, called an idea map.
4. During ideas sharing, new ideas may arise by the association, and they are added to the map as well. The participants can asked to contribute in turn by associating the word or idea with another one. Then all ideas are merged into one large idea map.
5. The final stage involves further idea generation, lastly prioritization and taking action based on the best ideas presented.
Advantages
The benefit of this method is that it ensures a large volume of different ideas. It does also allow a broader perspective in the variety of ideas.
