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Ideation techniques, helps teams to deal with challenges in a way that they would not otherwise consider, see issues from new perspectives, or to stimulate the imagination and to facilitate effective teamwork. From a typical organizational perspective, a superior ideation technique would be one that produced more good ideas, not necessarily one that simply produces more ideas.

Brainstorming has been around since the 1930s and even today it is the most popular ideation technique. The tool is often the only or one of very few creativity tool that organizations use and stubbornly doing so over and over again. A better organizational knowledge about ideation techniques would influence mood and motivation for innovation.

Here’s a great list of ideation techniques to be used for producing more good ideas: http://www.mycoted.com/Category:Creativity_Techniques