•Brainstorming
is a method for developing creative solutions to problems. It works by focusing on a problem,
and then deliberately coming up with
as many deliberately unusual solutions as possible and by pushing the ideas as far as possible.
•One approach to brainstorming is to 'seed' the session with a word
pulled randomly from a dictionary. This word
as a starting point in the process
of generating ideas. •During the brainstorming session there is no
criticism of ideas - the idea is
to open up as many possibilities as possible, and break down preconceptions about the limits of the
problem. •Once this has been done the results of the brainstorming
session can be analyzed and the best
solutions can be explored either using further brainstorming or more conventional solutions.