Stop-and-go Brainstorming
Stop-and-go Brainstorming technique
Types of BrainstormingThe brainstorming session is divided up into segments.
Ideas are generated for three to five minutes and then the group is...
Team Idea mapping
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...
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...
Individual brainstorming
Individual brainstorming and its types
Individual brainstorming is done independently on a solitary basis.
It typically includes such techniques asfree writing,
free speaking,
free word ...
Role Playing as a Creative Problem Solving Technique
Role Playing
1. Authors
Rick Griggs, Michael Michalko.
2. History
Role Playing as a group brainstorming method invented during the 1980s by business guru Rick Griggs. Later Michael...
Gordon-Little variation
Progressive Revelation technique
Types of BrainstormingThis technique was suggested by William Gordon while he was working for the Arthur D. Little Invention Design Unit in...
The Buzz session
Buzz session as type of brainstorming
This method was developed by J.D. Phillips (1948).
A small group drawn from a larger group that discuss a specific...
The Phoenix checklist – Creative Thinking Technique
The Phoenix checklist as creative problem solving technique
Michael Michalko. Thinkertoys: Handbook of Business Creativity for the 90's.Phoenix is a checklist of questions developed by the...
Trigger method
Trigger method as the type of brainstorming
Types of BrainstormingThe trigger method is often used in conjunction with classical brainstorming (Bujake, 1969).
This method is based...
Method of focal objects
Method of focal objects (MFO)1. Authors
American scientist Charles Whiting (1958), predecessor – German psychologist Friedrich Kunze “Method of catalog” (1926), follower Edward de Bono...
“What if?” – A powerful creativity and possibility thinking technique
"What if?" - creativity, possibility thinking and problem solving technique
1. Authors: Edward de Bono, Paul Sloane
2. History
The "What If...?" technique is rooted in Thought...
Metaphor technique for creative problem solving
Metaphor technique
1. Description
Metaphor technique consists in creating new possibilities, means and solutions by discovering and suggesting similarities between a problem or focal object...