Brainstorming & Ideation with Klaxoon | Klaxoon

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The concept of brainstorming was first introduced back in 1939, by the American advertiser Alex Osborn. He had thought of an innovative way to generate creative ideas for his clients through teamwork. Since then, brainstorming has been gaining ground in companies and institutions from all spheres, with the aim of accelerating the ideation process.

What exactly makes the originality of brainstorming? There are four main pillars to remember:

Listening to all ideas as they come
Mental association
Prioritizing quantity over quality
No judging or censoring any ideas

Now, why not dive into your brainstorming sessions to make them more efficient, and get your team to generate even more ideas?

live session using Brainstorming template

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Uneven levels of engagement within the team

Brainstorming sessions can lead to several engagement-related challenges, and especially to an imbalance in how different people speak and share ideas:

An uninspiring environment for ideation
Introverts don’t dare to speak up, while extroverts take up all the space
No directives for ensuring that different people have an opportunity to lead the conversation
A general lack of motivation in the group

A huge amount of ideas to deal with

As brainstorming sessions are meant to let everybody share what they have in mind, the flow of ideas can quickly get out of control. The thing is, you need to provide clear guidelines for quickly organizing dozens of shared ideas, in order to select the most relevant and actionable ones.

So, how can you go from a bundle of rough ideas to a clear vision of which ideas to keep, refine and realize? How can you get to the crux of the matter, without losing the right ideas on the way? We have the answer!

With Klaxoon, take brainstorming from ideas to action

Klaxoon includes a collaborative online Board, designed to help all teams turn brainstorming sessions into efficient and productive sessions. Welcome to an endless space for ideation!

Manage brainstorming sessions visually, from anywhere

On Klaxoon Board, organize, categorize, and like ideas with your team.
Connect your team's ideas to generate new ones.
Change your perspective by switching between Board, Column, and List views.

team brainstorming on a word cloud in a room

The important thing about Klaxoon is to reinvigorate brainstorming sessions, which are moments of collective intelligence that make all the difference nowadays.

Edouard Manche

Head of Dropbox Education at Dropbox

Use tried and trusted methods for your brainstorming workshops

Find the right method for you in our library of ready-to-use Templates, including icebreakers, Design Thinking, creative matrix, and many more.
Use Live in your workshops to ideate in big groups, subgroups, pairs, etc.
Be agile in how you lead sessions with a built-in Timer, a Pause feature, Board view synchro, etc.

live brainstorming session on mobile

Organize ideas easily for better decision-making

Choose how to organize your ideas: automatically, by color, by category, etc.
Vote for your preferred ideas with Likes, so you can define the first guidelines for team thinking.
Ask Questions to collect instant and consolidated feedback in real time.