Date: 10/12/15
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Capen 227
Attendees: Dan Chelius, Dwight Robinson, Emilie Reynolds
This meeting served as another brainstorming session. After the last brainstorming session I wanted to do some research into different brainstorming techniques and figure out how to optimize a brainstorming session. I looked into the product design company IDEO because I knew that brainstorming was a crucial part of their business model. I found a lot of material on how they conduct their brainstorming sessions which was very useful. The most useful thing I found was the ground rules that IDEO sets before every brainstorming session. These ground rules are as follows:
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Capen 227
Attendees: Dan Chelius, Dwight Robinson, Emilie Reynolds
This meeting served as another brainstorming session. After the last brainstorming session I wanted to do some research into different brainstorming techniques and figure out how to optimize a brainstorming session. I looked into the product design company IDEO because I knew that brainstorming was a crucial part of their business model. I found a lot of material on how they conduct their brainstorming sessions which was very useful. The most useful thing I found was the ground rules that IDEO sets before every brainstorming session. These ground rules are as follows:
With this newfound knowledge we were able to produce a much more effective brainstorming session. We did the classic post-it note technique that IDEO uses and produced approximately 36 original concepts.
After the brainstorming session was completed I started delegated different individual tasks. Everyone was tasked with inputing their own generated concepts into a table, where all the ideas would be stored. For this memo we decided to use Microsoft OneNote to compile the document instead of Google Docs. This decision was made purely for formatting reasons. I volunteered to write the problem statement and concept generation sections. As well as creating the function structure diagram. Paul was assigned the morphological matrix section. Emilie and Dwight were tasked with editing and formatting the concepts table. Dwight also assembled the concept screening/scoring tables.