Activating Creativity

Stop-and-Go Brainstorming: Smarter Problem-Solving 1. Core Definition Stop-and-Go Brainstorming is a dynamic and structured creativity technique that alternates between bursts of intense idea generation and moments...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Progressive Revelation technique: Structured Mystery  Types of Brainstorming 1. Core Definition The Gordon-Little Variation, or Progressive Revelation Technique, is a structured brainstorming method that stimulates creativity by...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...