I recently conducted a Speed Thinking workshop with a large multinational consulting company. Participants were amazed at this new way of brainstorming for example.

These are the differences with traditional brainstorming:

1. In Speed Thinking everyone plays. This means that all people are (usually) up on a wall and contributing their ideas. If you have ten people (like we did) and everyone creates nine possibilities. Then in the first two minutes you have 90 starting points or initial thoughts.

2. In Speed Thinking there is no leader. Everyone contributes their ideas, builds, evaluates and decides what the next steps are. The best ideas spontaneously emerge from the interactions of group members.

3. With Speed Thinking we start from the individual then work up to working with a partner then the bigger group. In this way introverts and extroverts are on an equal footing and the strongest ideas tend to surface rather than the strongest personalities.

4. Speed Thinking is built on movement. This means we are constant moving not stopping conceptually but also we use physical movement to facilitate the process. Our body is meant to move and our mind works best when we are moving around seeing different perspectives and keeping our bodies alert. Lying around on purple bean bags are a thing of the past.

5. The Speed Brainstorming sessions are high energy and much shorter. It can be a short as ten minutes!

6. In Speed Thinking we evaluate our ideas quickly using our intuition only.

What is your speed reaction to this?

Ken Hudson.