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Innovation & Brainstorming – Tom Kelley’s approach

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Some good thinking...
 
From Tom Kelley - ‘The Ten Faces of Innovation’
  • The Anthropologist
  • The Experimenter
  • The Cross-Pollinator
  • The Hurdler
  • The Collaborator
  • The Director
  • The Experience Architect
  • The Set Designer
  • The Storyteller
  • The Caregiver
Link to Tom Kelley’s 10 Faces website.
 
And, some suggestions for Brainstorming...
  1. go for quantity (say 100 ideas)
  2. encourage wild ideas (check out www.halfbakery.com)
  3. be visual
  4. defer judgment
  5. one conversation at a time
  6. have a facilitator and a scribe
Helping organizations innovate: www.ideo.com.