Brainstorming
for fun and profit
Rayn HOWAYEK
➊ What is a brainstorm?
➋ Why brainstorm?
➌ How to brainstorm?
Agenda
What is a brainstorm?
brainstorm [breɪnstɔːm]
A spontaneous group discussion to
produce ideas and ways of solving
problems.
Oxford American Dictionaries
Invented by Alex Osborn
around 1938
How do you get new ideas?
— Linus Pauling,
Nobel Prize winner
«The way to get good ideas is
to get lots of ideas and
throw the bad ones away.
Storm Storm
or
What did he mean?
Storm Storm
or
What did he mean?
Why brainstorm?
It’s a great way
to get new ideas
It makes work more fun
— Ethan Rasiel,
The McKinsey Way
«Brainstorming is ... what
the clients really buy.
How to brainstorm?
The brief
The people
The set
The process
Step 1:
The brief
«The cardinal rule of
brainstorming is that you
cannot do it successfully
in a vacuum.
— Ethan Rasiel,
The McKinsey Way
— Steve Schildwachter,
FCB Global
«Brief is everything.
Step 2:
The people
Not “experts only”
Invite different people
The Experiment
Task: design a campaign for a toy
3 brainstorming groups:
Which did the best?
No brief Written brief Went to a toy
shop
3 brainstorming groups:
No brief Written brief Went to a toy
shop
Of course.
Step 3:
The set
Something to write
Item / Product
Step 4:
The process
Next, announce:
?
Problem Target amount
of ideas
TimeRules
«The problem is never to get
new ideas in, the problem
is to get the old ideas out.
— Dee Hock,
Visa International
The rules are:
➊ Go for the quantity, not quality
➋ Absolutely no criticism
➌ Weird ideas are welcome
➍ Transform others’ ideas
Write whatever they say,
exactly as they say!
Yes, but...
Yes, and...
Go with the flow!
Got a stupid idea?
Say it out loud.
Just to get rid of it.
Stuck? Use creative ads.
Out of the box
Can you connect all nine spots with 4 continuos straight lines
drawn without ever lifting your pencil from the paper?
Out of the box
Can you connect all nine spots with 4 continuos straight lines
drawn without ever lifting your pencil from the paper?
Out of the box
Can you connect all nine spots with 4 continuos straight lines
drawn without ever lifting your pencil from the paper?
Out of the box
Can you connect all nine spots with 4 continuos straight lines
drawn without ever lifting your pencil from the paper?
Out of the box
Can you connect all nine spots with 4 continuos straight lines
drawn without ever lifting your pencil from the paper?
 The amount
reached?
Time’s up?
Now filter what you’ve got.
on the criteria
from the brief.
Good?
Bad?
And if you are lucky...
into a golden concept
And... this is it.
Rayn Howayek
Questions?
Rayn.howayek@gmail.com
Thank You

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