Analysis template · 29 topics
Brainstorming mind map template
A brainstorming mind map with warm-up, wild and borrowed ideas, clusters, filters, scores and a next step, to find and sort ideas alone or in a group.
Who it is for
- A team running a workshop to find ideas for a product or event.
- A writer or designer looking for fresh angles.
- A student exploring topics before choosing one.
How to use it
- Open the template and write the question to solve in the central topic.
- Fill the three idea branches without judging, for ten minutes.
- Sort the ideas into clusters, score them and pick one to test under Next step.
The outline
Every topic in the template, as it opens in the editor.
Brainstorming
- The challenge
- The question, as "How might we…"
- What a great answer would change
- Warm-up ideas
- The first three that come to mind
- What a competitor would try
- Wild ideas
- With an unlimited budget
- If it had to ship tomorrow
- The opposite of what we do now
- Borrowed ideas
- A trick from another industry
- A workaround customers already use
- Clusters
- Ideas that save time
- Ideas that win new people
- Ideas that cut cost
- Filters
- Budget and time we really have
- Rules we cannot break
- Score
- Impact from one to five
- Effort from one to five
- Confidence it will work
- Next step
- Top pick and the reason
- Cheapest test to run this week
- Who runs it
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