Ideation Meeting

Get everyone prepared for the meeting and start the ideation process.

Sessions
2
Steps
8
Last edited
Feb 28, 2022
Created by
Nova

About this process

Invite your team and stakeholders to your meeting. Everyone will submit a proposal and everyone will be part of the final session where everyone will vote on the best idea/proposal. This is an effective way to manage your meetings because everyone involved during the meetings has a good understanding of the topic.

Sessions at a glance
#SessionSteps
01Brainstorming502Challenge + Ideas3

The process in detail

2 sessions · 8 steps
01

Brainstorming

5 steps
  1. 1

    Break the ice and start the session

  2. 2

    Start brainstorming

  3. 3

    Re-organize sticky notes

  4. 4

    Develop ideas

  5. 5

    Repeat the brainstorming process (optional)

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1. Break the ice and start the session

The session lead can start by adding initial sticky notes to the board with the key problems or ideas to discuss during the session.

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2. Start brainstorming

Read the icebreaker or define the problem/challenge together. Once the initial sticky notes are added on the board, everyone on the team will have 2 to 5 minutes to write down ideas using sticky notes on the board.

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3. Re-organize sticky notes

The team leader should go over all the ideas and re-organize the sticky notes if necessary. Sometimes it’s ideal to group together ideas with the same concept to continue exploring those groups further.

Work on the whiteboardBrainstorming Session
4. Develop ideas

When the sticky notes are organized and the team lead has completed the previous step, take another 5-10 mins to continue developing these ideas or concepts.

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5. Repeat the brainstorming process (optional)

This process can be repeated as many times as the team wants. The session lead should specify here or in the initial instructions if they are going to continue with the session and how many times they will repeat the process. The session lead may highlight and specify any promising ideas that should be explored further.

Work on the whiteboardBrainstorming Session
Brainstorming Session
  • BRAINSTORMING & SESSION RULES:
  • RULES ICE BREAKER
  • What is the Problem/Challenge you want to brainstorm about?
  • Be open-minded to others’ ideas. This is a brainstorming session so think about as many ideas as you can while the timer is on. Don’t worry too much about making your ideas perfect at this point. Add one idea per sticky note. Expand on the ideas of others:** This is a collaborative session where we’ll build ideas together, so if someone else’s idea inspires you, add new ideas to the board and share them. Respect others by keeping your explanations short so everyone has a chance to explain and share their ideas.
  • Start typing here
  • Add your first ideas here
  • Correlated ideas
  • Add your first ideas here
  • Correlated ideas
  • HOW & WHO?
  • Add any constraints you may know you have or use our "Design Concept Deck or Challenge Deck" to add certain constrains to the problem?
  • Correlated ideas
  • Start typing here
  • Who needs this solution/idea?
  • Start typing here
02

Challenge + Ideas

3 steps

INFORMATION ABOUT THE TOPIC OR PROBLEM Start typing here... SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL: Submit your idea of proposal. Make sure you proposal is at least 1 page long.

  1. 1

    Find the best time for your meeting (Optional)

  2. 2

    Write your memo and share your memo/proposal with everyone here.

  3. 3

    Read the memo. Mark this step as completed once you are done.

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1. Find the best time for your meeting (Optional)

As team lead: Provide a few options As a team member: vote

Choose one or more
  • Next Tuesday at 10 am
  • Next Wednesday at 10 am
  • Next Thursday at 10 am
2. Write your memo and share your memo/proposal with everyone here.

Prepare for the meeting and write a memo. Bezos team writes a 6-page memo. We believe a 1-2 page memo can be sufficient. Ask you a manager or team lead for more details.

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3. Read the memo. Mark this step as completed once you are done.

Read the memo and share your thoughts Additional: You can add notes here.

Write a note
Memo
  • SUBMIT YOUR MEMO
  • Before the meeting, the memo (or memos) is shared with everyone.
  • MEMO 2
  • MEMO 3
  • MEMO 1
  • Created by: ADD YOUR NAME
  • Created by: ADD YOUR NAME
  • Created by: ADD YOUR NAME
  • Key highlights: Read the memo and add here your key highlights and comments.
  • Key highlights: Read the memo and add here your key highlights and comments.
  • Key highlights: Read the memo and add here your key highlights and comments.
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Last edited Feb 28, 2022·2 sessions · 8 steps