Gathering your team in a soulless conference room staring at a white board is not where colorful ideas come from. Getting together with friends over a bottle of wine (or two) is equally inefficient.

There’s nothing wrong with scrawling down thoughts using pen and paper, but that task gets complicated when you need to take into account the thoughts of colleagues who may be one desk over or ...

One thing you always hear about remote teams is how hard it is to generate good ideas and brainstorm when you work remotely. I disagree. It's pretty easy to brainstorm remotely. What's really tough is ...

On May 3, SuccessFactors, a business execution solution, purchased CubeTree for US$20 million in stock and a $30 million cash payment, contingent on the performance of SuccessFactor’s stock over the ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank page, struggling to organize your thoughts or kickstart a brainstorming session? It’s a frustrating feeling—one we’ve all experienced at some point.

Mind mapping is a visual technique that involves creating diagrams to represent ideas, tasks, or concepts branching out from a central theme. It’s also why I quickly became comfortable with the ...

This week’s column is the latest on root cause analysis tools for managers. The topic we'll be discussing is brainstorming. I would like to begin by saying that brainstorming is not only a great ...

Human beings have a unique advantage: we have thought-processes buried in our subconscious. If released, these can be a storehouse of innovative ideas to solve problems. This is what brainstorming is ...

Bill Gates mind-maps. So do Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra, and Al Gore. Leonardo da Vinci was the most famous mind-mapper of all, his visual style of note taking immortalized in his notebooks. Mind ...