Brainstorming is an activity that will help you generate more innovative ideas.
It’s one of many methods of ideation—the process of coming up with new ideas—and it’s core to the design thinking process. It’s a skill that you can build within your team and organization to help bring new ideas to life.
Innovation is s difficult topic when we are discussing about it. Every manager top down want innovations, even sometimes not sure what it is and how it should looks like.
I was very interested when first time I found about Adobe Kickbox. Adobe managed to create program / framework that encourages and guides employees to innovate at work.
From my personal insight, this is useful for individual person too. You may go through framework in order to create your personal “startup”.
The affinity diagram is a business tool used to organize ideas and data. It is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. People have been grouping data into groups based on natural relationships for thousands of years; however, the term affinity diagram was devised by Jiro Kawakita in the 1960s[1] and is sometimes referred to as the KJ Method.
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
Henry Ford
One small thing is important after any of team event. This is a reflection. And we as a team did our reflection after our hackathon event. Why does team reflection so matter?
Using reflection to capture new knowledge or feelings after a project or task can help your team to continuously learn and improve.
The reflection is both an individual and collective activity. Team members generally reflect first as individuals, share those reflections with the group.
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing. This is how Wikipedia describes empathy.
What is empathy for me and how does it linking to IT?
Whatever I am building, I am building with the user in mind. Why does a person come to me? Why does he need me? How to make his life and work easier. How to identify true needs behind customer words?
By being an IT guy I do enjoy working with PC. I can enjoy how nice icons are constructed or how many RAM’s it has. However, not forgetting working with people and for people.
