The Brainstorm Facilitator Brainstorming Process
by Brendan O'Keefe
1. Set context. Clarify outcomes. Address expectations
2. Determine and Create the environment
3. Establish ground rules and agreements for participation from the group
4. clarify the process
5. Break the ice
6. Invite appreciative inquiry
7. Invite humor and playfulness
8. Tell Stories
9. Identify and transform limiting assumptions
10. Create and explain the brainstorm ground rules
11. Allow for solo brainstorming
12. Rules
12.1. Focus on quantity
12.2. Suspend judgment
12.3. Wild ideas are welcome
12.4. Laugh & play
12.5. Combine and improve ideas
13. Establish criteria for evaluation
13.1. C5
14. Encourage participants to follow their fascination
15. Excursion (time out)
16. Brainstorm in Groups
16.1. Brainslipping
16.2. SCAMPER
16.3. ThinkCube
16.4. ASSumption Buster
16.5. Revesal of Fortune
16.6. Idea Lottery
16.7. Idea Jams
16.8. Stick em Up
16.9. Animal Crackers
16.10. Idea Pilot & Co-Pilot version
16.11. What would Davinci think?
16.12. Crash, Bang, Boom
16.13. Questorming
17. Help you evaluate ideas effectively. Brainstorm Report. Follow-Up
17.1. Synthesis
18. What's Up? - Questorming
19. Idea Management Tools
19.1. SMS Idea Box
19.2. Idea Management Toolbox
19.3. Idea Map
20. Custom Design Determine the team