It takes Two in the Innovation Tango

Greg Fraley has his say about the effectiveness of brainstorming.
http://www.greggfraley.com/blog/?p=2658

Effective Brainstorming Works

A recent New York Times article by Susan Cain challenged the effectiveness of brainstorming. Here is the link to Susan Robertson's rebuttal.

http://ideastogo.tumblr.com/post/16173123532/groupthinkrebuttal

Speed Storming Organisational Creativity

Combining brain storming and speed dating.
A team of interdisciplinary researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, coupled the older popular technique of brainstorming with speed-dating to come up with a new technique of "speed-storming" to foster creative work instead of romantic involvements; however, I am not sure if conjugal pairing might not happen anyway, at least occasionally, as a result of speed-storming.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychology-masala/201109/speed-storming-organizational-creativity

In pursuit of the perfect brainstorm

The New York Times Magazine recently published an article on ideas and how best to nourish them. More here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Industry-t.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a210

Conceptual design in two minutes

Here's a link to a nice little video from Nokia explaining the value of brainstorming and sketching.
http://johnnyholland.tv/post/921123892/conceptual-design-in-two-minutes-nokia