Brainstorming and ideation
Klaxoon makes it simple to generate and organize ideas through efficient brainstorming sessions.
The concept of brainstorming was first introduced back in 1939, by the American advertiser Alex Osborn. He had thought of an innovative way to generate creative ideas for his clients through teamwork. Since then, brainstorming has been gaining ground in companies and institutions from all spheres, with the aim of accelerating the ideation process.
What exactly makes the originality of brainstorming? There are four main pillars to remember:
- Listening to all ideas as they come
- Mental association
- Prioritizing quantity over quality
- No judging or censoring any ideas
Now, why not dive into your brainstorming sessions to make them more efficient, and get your team to generate even more ideas?
Looking for more efficient brainstorming sessions?
Uneven levels of engagement within the team
Brainstorming sessions can lead to several engagement-related challenges, and especially to an imbalance in how different people speak and share ideas:
- An uninspiring environment for ideation
- Introverts don’t dare to speak up, while extroverts take up all the space
- No directives for ensuring that different people have an opportunity to lead the conversation
- A general lack of motivation in the group
A huge amount of ideas to deal with
As brainstorming sessions are meant to let everybody share what they have in mind, the flow of ideas can quickly get out of control. The thing is, you need to provide clear guidelines for quickly organizing dozens of shared ideas, in order to select the most relevant and actionable ones.
So, how can you go from a bundle of rough ideas to a clear vision of which ideas to keep, refine and realize? How can you get to the crux of the matter, without losing the right ideas on the way? We have the answer!
With Klaxoon, take brainstorming from ideas to action
Manage brainstorming sessions visually, from anywhere
- On Klaxoon Board, organize, categorize, and like ideas with your team.
- Connect your team's ideas to generate new ones.
- Change your perspective by switching between Board, Column, and List views.
Use tried and trusted methods for your brainstorming workshops
- Find the right method for you in our library of ready-to-use Templates, including icebreakers, Design Thinking, creative matrix, and many more.
- Use Live in your workshops to ideate in big groups, subgroups, pairs, etc.
- Be agile in how you lead sessions with a built-in Timer, a Pause feature, Board view synchro, etc.
Organize ideas easily for better decision-making
- Choose how to organize your ideas: automatically, by color, by category, etc.
- Vote for your preferred ideas with Likes, so you can define the first guidelines for team thinking.
- Ask Questions to collect instant and consolidated feedback in real time.
Unlock your teamwork potential
Try our templates
With many more available in our library
Brainstorming: easily generate new ideas in simple steps
With this ready-to-use and visual Brainstorming template, generate new ideas as a team and move forward quickly.
1-2-4-All: the brainstorming method to generate ideas
The 1-2-4 All method is a variant of the popular Brainstorming method and aims to encourage team members to think in large groups. Get our template!
World Café: collaborative ideation with several subgroups
With this visual ideation template, use team brainstorming to generate as many ideas as possible while avoiding duplicates.
Listen to more of our customers' experience
Because there's nothing like actual user feedback
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