What brainstorming activities would you recommend to a management team to help them think creatively and divergently? What makes you believe that your recommended strategies could be effective? How or when could these strategies be implemented?

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Due Day 3

Brainstorming is a popular strategy for organizations to have employees more involved and contribute innovative thoughts and ideas to improve a process or organization.

Conduct an Internet search using the keywords “creativity and brainstorming.”

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

What brainstorming activities would you recommend to a management team to help them think creatively and divergently?
What makes you believe that your recommended strategies could be effective? How or when could these strategies be implemented?

classmate 1:

For my management team, Iwould implement the Starbursting brainstorming technique. This style of brainstorming is great for working an idea that has already been brought “to the table”. This idea is presented to the team and there are 6 questions that come from that idea. Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

This style is great for larger settings and allows for discussion between the group. The teams can discuss and explore different scenarios or reasons that the question might be asked. With a group of individuals, there could be collaboration between the different ideas around a question that allows for more creativity or benefits to that original idea.

In my organization, we currently use a collaborative effort when it comes to learning and creating ideas. Although we do not always ask these questions, we are mindful of the customers’ needs when we have creative ideas. Our company recently launched a new mobile app for our customers that allows them to review ACH docs, invoices, pricing, and fuel brand information. As a collective group, we worked on ideas that would be beneficial to the customer as well as had input on what is needed from the new app. We technically used a Starbursting technique but did not follow all the questions that can come from the traditional technique.

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