We did a brainstorming exercise today as the kickoff to a week long planning session and used some pretty standard techniques to facilitate the process. We did pretty well on coming up with ideas, but I am wondering if there isn't a better way to winnow down these storms into managable bits of information, quickly. You know how the energy of the storm is all encompassing? How each person is engaged - that seems to wane when you then start to dissect the list.

Is this the hard part then? Are there some tried and true methods that have worked for you in the past? Of course, I have not googled brainstorming to see what information is already out there (link here for the curious)

We did the obvious things, created the list, scored the list, cull and sort, cull and sort. But somehow I feel like we are still missing something.