Gathering your team in a soulless conference room staring at a white board is not where colorful ideas come from. Getting together with friends over a bottle of wine (or two) is equally inefficient.

On May 3, SuccessFactors, a business execution solution, purchased CubeTree for US$20 million in stock and a $30 million cash payment, contingent on the performance of SuccessFactor’s stock over the ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank page, struggling to organize your thoughts or kickstart a brainstorming session? It’s a frustrating feeling—one we’ve all experienced at some point.

Imagine you need to come up with a new marketing campaign, fresh ideas to expand your product line, or even creative ways to celebrate your anniversary. The traditional approach to cracking these ...

Innovative ideas are a bi-product of thinking outside the box. Brainstorming is an essential method for creating new ideas and thinking in a different way, but it’s not always easy to get into the ...

Brainstorming is the process of gathering spontaneous ideas in order to find a solution to a problem. While it can involve a big group of people, the same procedure can also be used by an individual ...

Bill Gates mind-maps. So do Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra, and Al Gore. Leonardo da Vinci was the most famous mind-mapper of all, his visual style of note taking immortalized in his notebooks. Mind ...

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As more startups migrate their companies to the cloud, it can be difficult to gather the entire team for a productive collaboration session. Not only does everyone need to be in the same place at the ...

Every writer knows the thrill of a new idea—the spark that sets your imagination ablaze and gets your fingers itching to type. But let’s be honest: that spark doesn’t always come easily, and sometimes ...