Creativity Techniques for Enterprise Innovation Workshops

Creativity techniques help teams break out of routine thinking and generate truly original ideas. In enterprise workshops, they overcome groupthink, social pressure, and production blocking—ensuring that every participant can contribute and that innovation doesn’t depend on the loudest voice in the room.

Creativity techniques are just the starting point. For a full framework that eliminates bias and turns ideas into results, explore our Innovation Workshop Playbook

Provocation technique

Turn assumptions to generate new ideas

Problem reversal

Turn your problem statement upside down to find new ideas for solutions

Random word technique

Let random words stimulate you to generate new ideas

Collective notebook method

Collect ideas over a longer period of time - first alone, than together

Scenario technique

Develop future scenarios for your industry

Semantic intuition

Generate new ideas by combining words

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