Companies often begin their search for great ideas either by encouraging wild, outside-the-box thinking or by conducting quantitative analysis of existing market and financial data and customer opinions. Those approaches can produce middling ideas at best, say Coyne, founder of an executive-counseling firm in Atlanta, and Clifford and Dye, strategy experts at McKinsey. The problem with the firs...

This is a sort of personal list of problems and research topics, compiled with the occasion of the Third Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing, Sevilla, 2005.

Brainstorming has moved from the individual, to the meeting room, to digital tools, and recently, to online collaborative systems with masses of participants in a “crowdsourced” brainstorm. This paper presents IDEAS2IDEAS, our design of a mass-participation online brainstorming system built to encourage a particular behavior in brainstorm participants: constructive, collaborative ideation. This...

This paper reports a study of electronic brainstorming that begins with field experience, moves through theory building and experimentation, and ends with practical guidance for facilitators and developers. The paper argues that social loafing impairs the productivity of electronic brainstorming groups, and that social comparison is a way to decrease the @ect(s) of social loafing. By inducing s...

Výuka pomocí participativních technik je efektivnější a podporuje interakci mezi učiteli studenty. Prostřednictvím nástrojů telekonferenční platformy možné využívat participativní zážitkové techniky. Jako zajímavé se jeví především využití simulace brainstormingu prostřednictvím ve vzdělávání učitelů. Cílem tohoto příspěvku výzkum technik, zejména pak ...