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BrainStorming
EGR 487/485
Dr. L. E. Moody
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Brainstorming
• Think in free and open way… no restrictions
– Group or Individually
• No judgement
• Come up with many ideas without over thinking
• Generate a large quantity of ideas, write all down
• Grouping of ideas and evaluation comes later
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Outline
• Why do brainstorming?
– It works
• Preparing to brainstorm
– Be open to any idea
– Don’t judge
• Secrets of successful brainstorming
• Impediments to successful brainstorming
• Helpful tricks and techniques
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What is Brainstorming?
• “The unrestrained offering of ideas by all members of a group toseek solutions to problems.” (Webster’s New World Dictionary. 1987)
• Unrestrained offering:– no judgment– ‘offered’ to the group– go for quantity!
• Ideas:– thought, mental concept, or image– could also be an opinion or belief– doesn’t have to be proven or backed up with fact or analysis
• All members– everyone contributes, but not necessarily in order– leader responsible for ensuring equal opportunity
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Why do Brainstorming?
• Generate new ideas– alternative ways of achieving a stated goal– innovative design– different approaches
• Identify new opportunities– new products to meet identified needs– new uses for specific technologies– new technologies
• Solve ambiguous or complex problems– troubleshooting - identify avenues to explore– different approaches
“If you do what you always did, you just get more of what you already have.”
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Why Do Brainstorming?• Used widely in Industry & Leads to Innovation
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What Innovation IS ...
• Critical to the success of companies, entrepreneurs, organizations, etc.
• Key to the success of professionals
• Customer focused
• Collaborative
• A culture
• A mindset
• A process
• ……A Center at Mercer University
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Innovation is Required for Success
Mercer Innovation Center
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Helpful Tricks and Techniques
• Many Approaches to Brain Storming are available
– Customer needs tool
– ‘Lens Smashing’
– Mind-mapping
– affinity diagrams
– Others?
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Try it !
• Each groups should brainstorm solution, in whole or in parts.
• Each team must develop 2-3 real potential solutions to evaluate.
– Can be at the sub-system level.
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Affinity Diagrams
• Organize individual observations, ideas, questions, etc. into common themes.
• Provides an opportunity for the group to explore specific themes or classes of ideas more thoroughly
• ‘Affinity’ refers to the degree of commonality within the set• Steps
– Write each observation, idea, question, etc. on a separate post-it note.– Organize similar items together into groups– Does everyone agree on the affinity of each item in each group? If not,
reorganize until all are satisfied.– Label each group with a descriptive title (‘air-based approaches’,
‘chemical approaches’, etc.)– Organize groups together into larger groups
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‘Lens Smashing’
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Mind Mapping