The Kipling method (5W1H)
The Five W’s and One H Method
1. Author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 –1936), English short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
2. History
The method gets its name from...
Individual brainwriting
Individual brainwriting technique
Individuals write their ideas down in a private, quiet place and share them later.
That is why this technique is also named Combined...
Group passing technique
Group passing technique and its versions
The Group passing technique involves sitting in a circle or around a table and offering solutions in a fast...
How to solve a problem – checklist by G. Polya
Polya's checklist
Author: Hungarian mathematician George Polya (1887–1985), one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century.
History: In 1945 George Polya proposed the four-step...
Synectics
Synectics: Essence, Principles and Stages
Etimology: The term Synectics was derived from the Greek words syn –meaning “ bringing together” and ectikos meaning “diversity”, so...
Visual brainstorming
Visual brainstorming: procedure steps and variations
Visual brainstorming technique is a graphic ideation, when group members sketch solutions to a problem. The sketches are used...
Lateral thinking technique – effective tool for creative problem solving
Lateral thinking technique as insight, innovation and creativity
1. Author
Edward de Bono (born May 19, 1933, Malta), was a British psychologist, writer, physician, inventor, expert...
Blue slips technique
Blue slips technique as the type of group brainstorming
Method was developed by C. C. Crawford of the University of Southern California (USA) in the 1920s.
It...
The Gallery method
Gallery method as the brainstorming technique
The Gallery method is the technique developed by the Battelle Institute and improved by Van Gundy, 1981 and others.
In...
Question brainstorming
Question brainstorming:
characteristics and steps
This process involves brainstorming the questions related to the problem, rather than trying to come up with immediate answers and short-term...
Brainstorming Deluxe
Value-added brainstorming
Author: Greg Bachman, 2000
The process of generating new ideas is divided into five stages, steps or segments. This method structures the flow...
Constrained brainwriting
Brainwriting pool technique with constraints
This method is a version of the standard Brainwriting pool technique. Participants constrain ideas around pre-determined focus, rather than ranging freely....