Brainstormingto do? or not to do?... that is the question

Brainstorming

Concept:

Put a group of people

In the same room

Ask them for as much solutions to a problem

Nobody will criticise their ideas

Osborn´s Rules 1957

Brainstorming

OR...

Brainstorming

Ask people individually to come with as manysolutions to a problem

Brainstorming

OR...

Brainstorming

Ask people individually to come with as manysolutions to a problem

Then share all the ideas in group

Brainstorming

This concept has been studied formore than 30 years and it seems

that the right answer is...

Brainstorming

Ask people individually to come with as manysolutions to a problem

Then share all the ideas in group

Some references...

Advances in Experimental Social PsychologyVolume 43, 2010, Pages 157–203

Beyond Productivity Loss in Brainstorming Groups: The Evolution of a QuestionWolfgang Stroebe⁎, Bernard A. Nijstad†, Eric F. Rietzschel‡

Some references...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S006526011043004X

Ok, this way is easier:

Some references...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2162-6057.2009.tb01304.x/abstract

I have this one in full PDF but can´t shareit this way... I will send it to you later

Brainstorming

For the workshop:

remember the brick brainstorm? We will count how many ideas we got

on that exercise...

Then...

Brainstorming

For the workshop:

we will ask them to think bythemselves in as many uses for an

endotracheal tube

then share their ideas with their groups

Brainstorming

For the workshop:

they will need to write the ideason both workshops

Brainstorming

For the workshop:

if everything is ok we will havemore ideas on this section

Brainstorming

For the workshop:

What do you think??

Time to go to the last one...