Protocol - Brainstorming
Brainstorming is a simple tool for gathering the ideas for developing solutions to problems.
Category:
Quality methodologies
Last revision: Apr 11, 2016
Author(s):
A. F. Osborn
Contact
Name: Giovanna L. Liguori
Address: Institute of Genetics and Biophysics Via Pietro Castellino, 111 Naples 80131 ITALY
Email: giovanna.liguori@igb.cnr.it
Figure legend:
Brainstorming illustration
Steps
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List a series of proposals (free contributions), in order to collect the largest possible number of results
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20-30 minutes
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Process the results by applying filters
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Focusing on a very rapid choice among many proposals, using appropriate filters
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Choose the constraints and use a “Table of Constraints” to manage and summarize results
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You choose constraints, because different solutions can be better compared with the characteristics and limitations of the system, rather than among themselves.
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In the table listing the proposals in lines, constraints in the columns; a final column summarizes the compliance to constraints of each proposal with a logical AND
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Analyze the proposals, proposals compatible with all constraints are kept; proposals that do not meet even one constraint are marked with ‘‘no’’ and rejected; proposals that have a dubious compatibility are marked with a ‘‘?’’ to be kept for further analysis.
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Quality validation:
Yes
Validation info
The methodology has been used to develop the project described in a peer-reviewed article
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