Chapter Ten. Tips for Designing and Facilitating Brainstorming Retreats

Before it was possible to conduct innovation challenges online, they were conducted in face-to-face (FtF) settings known as brainstorming retreats. Online challenges, of course, do not preclude the possibility of FtF retreats. In fact, they sometimes may complement and augment each other. For instance, an organization first might want to conduct an online challenge to generate a large pool of ideas and then narrow them down to the best concepts. These concepts then could be explored more fully in a FtF retreat that would provide opportunities to interact with others in real time. Another option would be to hold an online session and follow it up with a retreat to generate ...

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