Preparation

Want to have more efficient brainstorm sessions? Hand out 'homework' beforehand. It saves time, improves the quality of ideas and builds in a bit of incubation time.

Before you enter a thinking session, make sure you have a list of the most important criteria your outcome has to meet.

The right working environment can stimulate creativity and innovation. Colours, lighting, sounds and arrangement all influence how creative people are.

Serious about improving your creative thinking skills? Start a Creative Thinking Club.

To be able to solve a problem, it is important to understand what the underlying cause of your challenge is. Here's a great technique to get to the root of the problem...

Everybody knows that sitting behind a desk for too long is not very productive. It's a good idea to get up and go outside. Here are five reasons why you should take a walk outside once in a while:

Every problem has a solution. What separates the people that find the solutions from those that get hopelessly stuck is simple: asking the right questions.

While science fiction initially is exactly that –fiction- it doesn’t have to stay that way. In fact, much of the technology we use today was described in a sci-fi novel or film long before it [...]

In brainstorming the group dynamic is all decisive for the end result. If you want a lot of original ideas you’ll need to select your participants carefully. Just like in sports the best players [...]

Some people believe that they are not able to come up with good ideas. To change limiting mindsets you'll have to to let participants get to know their creative selves. You need to unleash the [...]