Guide to Effective Brainstorming

The document provides 10 guidelines for effective brainstorming: 1. Come prepared and invite others to do so as well. 2. Invite people from other departments to contribute different perspectives. 3. Reframe the problem statement to spark new ideas. 4. Record all ideas as they are generated. 5. Defer judgment and build on ideas without criticism. 6. Continuously generate ideas without stopping. 7. Set large quotas for the number of ideas to be generated. 8. Elaborate on and improve existing ideas. 9. Use visuals like drawings to connect and organize ideas. 10. Consider alternative problem framings by envisioning threats to spark