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Participants often have little or no ultimate responsibility for the quality of the outcome of the brainstorming session
The democracy of input (i.e., anyone can contribute any idea, nothing is rejected) almost ensures a mediocre output. People forget their great ideas while awaiting their turn to talk, while a coworker rambles on incessantly - something that he calls "production blocking."
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- Some of the more promising ideas are also the most polarizing - and therefore tend not to survive the "dot voting" that is used by the group to evaluate the ideas they have generated.
- Participants tend to be apprehensive about sharing their most radical ideas, for fear of what their colleagues or superiors will think.
- Richard does recommend an alternative:
  
  "For my money the optimum number of people for an idea generation session is two with no facilitator hanging on. Two people that have a vested interest in the quality of the outcome and can switch seemlessly between divergent and convergent thinking until they get to the right idea which they both then build upon."

31 May 07

Alternatives are Identified and Explored
Ideas are Critiqued, Not People
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- A Clear Decision is Made at the End
- People are Willing to Discuss Again in the Future

16 Mar 07

Someone must enforce the clock. Every meeting should start with someone assigned to watch the clock. I don’t know that you need a giant clock like Google is claimed to use, but it’s someones job to say “We’re 20 minutes in”, “we have 15 minutes left”, “we have 5 minutes, so lets wrap up”. You’d be amazed how many meetings ramble for half the allotted time on topics not central to the reason for the meeting. Three breakpoints are all you need to remind everyone to stay on track
Plan to end 5 minutes early.
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- If you called the meeting, it’s your job to 1) get there on time 2) write a bullet list agenda on the wall 3) Manage the conversation so no one hogs the floor and the right people get a voice at the right time 4) make sure side issues get delegated out of the room. If you don’t do all 4, any meeting problems are your fault.
- Meetings start when royalty arrives. Watch the behavior of the senior person on a team. Most meetings won’t start until they arrive and people know it. If the VP is never late, no one else will be either. If the VP is always 10 minutes behind, everyone else will follow.

How can our spaces improve creativity?
dave said...

I'm going to add one that, to me, is absolutley critical:

WALL SPACE!!! Wall space accommodates flip charts, sticky notes, posters, bulleting boards and whiteboards.

Large, vertical, shared work areas are incredibly useful for collaboration and creativity -- I might argue indispensable.

Many of the conference rooms at BP have floor-to-ceiling whiteboards, which I love.
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- In reply to my post about process, anonymous said:
  I truly believe if there were more environments that fostered and encouraged innovative and creative thinking...we'd be a different place.

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