Brainstorming is big at most organizations today, but in becoming ubiquitous it has lost something. The invitation "Let's brainstorm about that" typically leads to a gathering in a conference room ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of leadership and innovation. At some point, we’ve all been there—holed up in a meeting in hopeless ...

Our brains’ creative flow isn’t time-bound the way the typical brainstorm is. Here are a few ways to shake things up. The typical brainstorm over-delivers on the latter and under-delivers on the ...

A controversy over brainstorming has been brewing for decades. Brainstorming was popularized by an advertising executive, Alex Osborn, back in the 1940s. Believed to be responsible for the creative ...

Every great venture begins with an idea, whether you are planning to start a business, design a product, or tackle a new ...

If you work in an office, your boss has probably forced you into a brainstorming session or two (or 12). Brainstorming, after all, is supposedly a killer way to come up with ideas, and businesses want ...

Peek inside any one of design firm Ideo’s conference rooms, which speckle the globe from Silicon Valley to Shanghai, and you will see what looks like the Ten Commandments of brainstorming etched onto ...

The human mind is a complex system with billions of neurons that allow it to perform many functions, one of which is to think and generate ideas. Experts estimate that the mind thinks between 60,000 ...

In a higher education context in which students are increasingly seen as partners in the design of their learning, and change has become a recurrent imperative, an old tool remains that can unleash ...

I've been using Notion to brainstorm for years, so it was interesting to see if Loop could be a replacement since I am heavily ingrained in Microsoft's ecosystem. After spending some time with it, I'm ...

When we’re confronting a vexing problem, we often gather a group to brain­storm. We’re looking to get the best ideas as quickly as possible. I love seeing it happen—except for one tiny wrinkle. Group ...