Advances in innovation processes are critically important as economic and business
landscapes evolve. There are many concept generation techniques that can assist a …

This study consists of four experimental idea generation meetings, which explore whether
functions of sketching in design activity are also valid for idea generation meetings. The …

Graphic facilitation is a growing practice in organizational contexts and is slowly emerging in
educational contexts. However, as the review in this paper shall demonstrate, there is a …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss a technique called the
Nominal Group Technique (NGT) for possible use in the types of market research or …

Now-a-days Creativity is very much important for requirements analysis. The practice of
systematic creativity technique is needed to generate inventive ideas and to achieve better …

As organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on collaborative teamwork there has
been a major shift in focus from individual to team based innovation. Value is increasing in …

Highlights•We found that engineering students are reluctant to sketch.•We propose 1) a
training workshop to teach sketching skills to engineers.•We propose 2) an art-based …

Informal design tools can provide immense value during the creative stages of the design
process, eg, by transforming sketches into interactive simulations. Two key limitations of …

Highlights•Detailed guidance using linkography to understand ideation processes.•
Benchmarking of a new ideation method with brainstorming using our adapted …

Design-by-analogy is an important tool for engineers seeking innovative solutions to design
problems. A new method for systematically guiding designers in seeking analogies, the …