Ideation Speed Dating
Generate ideas quickly by building on each other's thinking in rapid timed rounds.
What it is
When to use it
How to run it
Start by assembling your team and give them a How might we..? question to begin.
On post-its (physical or virtual) each person spends 2 minutes coming up with as many ideas as they can to answer the question.
After 2 minutes, each participant moves onto the ideas generated by another participant. In 2 minutes they use that persons ideas to come up with more ideas.
Repeat until each participant comes back to their initial group of ideas.
As a team, group similar ideas together.
Give each person 3 votes for their favourite ideas.
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