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 ...

Collecting and organizing ideas is a key first step to undertaking any task. When you’re planning a new product, making a decision, organizing an event or solving a problem you’ll be full of ideas, ...

How can you get your team to generate more creative and diverse ideas? Here’s a hint: It’s not by scheduling a brainstorm session, packing a room full of people, and freely blurting out ideas. If ...

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 ...

Have you ever found yourself wishing for a tool that could combine the simplicity of a traditional whiteboard with the limitless possibilities of modern technology? Enter Microsoft Whiteboard, a ...

Spotter, the startup that provides financial solutions to content creators, announced Tuesday the launch of its new AI-powered creative suite. Dubbed Spotter Studio, the solution aims to support ...

You’ve probably been brainstorming wrong. That’s the conclusion you can reach from popular books like Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. Cain argues that ...

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.

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 ...