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...
Electronic or online brainstorming
Online brainstorming (Brainlining)
Types of Brainstorming
Author: Peter Lloyd
1. Description
Electronic brainstorming or simply Online brainstorming (Brainlining) is the modern version of brainstorming. The word brainlining is...
The other side of Things
A father was busy with his work while his little daughter constantly distracted him in an attempt to make him play with her.
To keep...
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...
Mind Mapping for creativity and innovation
Mind Mapping techniques for creative
problem solving
1. Author
Tony Buzan (2 June 1942 – 13 April 2019) was a British writer, researcher and educational...
C. Jung’s “16 associations” test as a problem solving method
Exercise-test "16 associations"
1. Author and history
Carl Jung created and began to use the word association test in 1910-1916 to unravel the subconscious. He discovered...
Brainwriting
Brainwriting - freewriting technique
Types of Brainstorming
Author. This method was originally popularized in Germany in the 70s and developed by Arthur B. VanGundy.
Brainstorming is...
6-3-5 Brainwriting
Method 635 or 6-3-5 Method
This is a group creativity technique originally developed by Bernd Rohrbach (1968).
The name Brainwriting 6-3-5 comes from the process of having 6...
Five Why – interrogative technique
Five Why Method
1. Author: Sakichi Toyoda (1867 –1930), Japanese inventor and industrialist, who is referred to as the "King of Japanese Inventors".
2. History
The technique...
Braindrawing
Braindrawing as the brainstorming technique
This technique can be used when a group of people prefer non-verbal methods of creativity. Braindrawing works by providing non-verbal...
Stop-and-go Brainstorming
Stop-and-go Brainstorming technique
Types of Brainstorming
The brainstorming session is divided up into segments.
Ideas are generated for three to five minutes and then the group is...
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...