Brainstorming Technique

What-If Analysis. The what-if analysis is simply a brainstorming technique that asks a variety of questions related to situations that can occur. For instance, in regards to a pump, the question What if the pump stops mnning might be asked. An analysis of this situation then follows. The answer should provide a description of the resulting consequence. Recommendations then foUow, if required, on the measures taken to prevent an accident. 

Try using brainstorming techniques to identify representative management systems currently in place within your company. 

SWOT is the business analysis technique used most commonly by companies and other organisations. SWOT stand for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. It is usually set out in quadrants on a single sheet of paper as illustrated in Figure C4. The contents of the SWOT analysis are usually generated by a brainstorming technique (see Section C, 1.8.3). 

Creative Challenge is not a rapid-fire brainstorming technique. Rather, it leverages a different approach called E/RJA ... 

If you have more than eight people, split them into equally divided groups. If you have less than four participants, use a different idea-generation approach such as Imaginary Brainstorming (Technique 19) or Random Stimulus (Technique 21). Either way, select a mixed team that includes people who are familiar with the issue at hand as well as outsiders who can promote a new perspective. 

Classically, completing a Paired Comparison Analysis calls for the use of brainstorming techniques to come up with great alternatives. We recommend using any or all of the ideation techniques in this book to move significantly beyond classic brainstorming. If simple brainstorming were sufficient, more teams would come up with more innovations more often than not. But this is not the case. 

Checklists and What-If brainstorming techniques could be useful in assessing a change in the span of control. Refer to Appendix A for additional information about these risk assessment tools. 

Technologies hardware, decision support tools, brown paper tools, etc. software brainstorm techniques, decision support software, financial software for making the business case, project design systems, etc. 

Cause Enumeration Type All possible causes are listed using brainstorming techniques. 

The SWIFT is a systematic system of hazard analysis using brainstorming techniques. It considers the deviation, the hazard, and the cause and endeavors to determine consequence, if it happens. 

HAZID is a brainstorming technique using personnel with a variety of backgrounds and experience to identify and provide initial scoping of hazards present within an operation or process, and facilitated by an independent chair, based upon a hazard checklist (e.g., derived from ISO 17776 20C (E) for offshore platforms). 

Explore What alternatives were e5q)lored Are there other alternatives, such as requesting additional time to rerun the e5q)eriments, alerting the users of the data to their possible inaccuracy, writing a detailed analysis of the theoretical and experimental discrepancies, debriefing the technician who performed the experiments to determine whether errors in technique could cause the discrepancy Would a more careful exploration of the alternatives have been helpful in this case What brainstorming techniques might have been helpful ... 

Historical data, the intuition of experts, the analytical skills of specialists, and "brainstorming" techniques, have all been used to review and challenge the initial list of hazards. The list is categorised to determine which hazards fall within the compass of the signalling system. 

Brainstorming techniques are used during which the design or operation of the system is discussed on the basis of the experience of the people involved in the brainstorming activity. Checklists are commonly used to assist in identifying hazards. 

In the hazard identification phase, the combined experience and insight of engineers is required to systematically identify all potential failure events at each required indenture level with a view to assessing their influences on system safety and performance. This is achieved using brainstorming techniques. The hazard identification phase can be further broken down into several steps as follows ... 

Hazard identification - The HAZard IDentification (HAZID) consists of determining which hazards affect the vessel s activities under consideration using brainstorming techniques. At the HAZID session the following information is gathered ... 

Again, brainstorming technique involving trained and experienced personnel are used for the whole process of hazard identification. The accident categories identified with regard to the containerships operation include (Wang and Foinikis (2(X)1)) ... 

Brainstorming technique is normally used among a panel of experts to identify all the possible factors, levels, their interactions and other pertinent information about the optimisation problem. Sometimes factor screening may be required to provide a quick and simple way of ranking factors according to their importance in the optimisation. This will reduce the number of identified factors in order to perform the optimisation more efficiently. 

Once all of the X s are listed, the team starts the brainstorming. It is important that the team adhere to brainstorming techniques. All ideas are considered, No debating of ideas, etc. If a team member has no opinion, ideas, or lacks experience, they should pass. Giving an opinion may create a bias to others. Just as we have established theY s prioritization, the X s will also be ranked in the matrix (Figure R.4). 

A team-based structured brainstorming technique for identification of hazards before they arise. HAZOP starts with a deviation from normal system operation and examines how that deviation might occur and the consequences should such a deviation occur. 

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