Major Cardsmith update: We have new features!
Our team is working hard at iterating Cardsmith and implementing new features that make life just a little bit better for you. We get excellent feedback from you, our users, all the time, and we keep track of every feature request we receive. Whenever there's a way we...
Neuroplasticity, Brainstorming with Visual Tools, and Cardsmith
Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to change, adapt, learn, and forge new neural pathways. It’s a big part of what keeps you young, cognitively speaking. At sixty-one, I think about this. Supposedly, our natural neuroplasticity declines after age fifty or so,...
Brainstorming Techiques #3 – Get Analytical for Better Results
Straightforward brainstorming works great for getting a lot of ideas on paper, but sometimes you need more. When your goal is to generate ideas and figure out which ones will be most valuable to your organization, it’s time to incorporate analytical brainstorming...
Kanban: Why It’s the Best Way to Keep Your Business Flowing Smoothly
Businesses are like rivers. They can flow unimpeded, slipping past barriers like boulders and waterfalls with ease. Or, they can encounter natural log jams and manmade dams that stop their progress. Today we’re going to talk about keeping the current of your business...
Brainstorming Techniques #2 – Change Your Point of View
Sometimes all it takes to achieve a better outcome is to change your point of view. Sound like something your therapist might say? As it turns out, this prescription for a better life also works to improve your brainstorming sessions. If you ever lead brainstorming...
Brainstorming Techniques – Using Numbers, SCAMPER, & Starburst to Create Ideas
Let’s brainstorm for a minute. Write down every brainstorm method you know. How many come to mind? More importantly, how many of them do you actually use? Most of us brainstorm the same way, every time. Brainstorming has become so commonplace that it’s easy to fall...
Brave Brainstorming in 5 Simple Steps
This is a guest contribution from Paige Wallace of Storycatcher Creative “I encourage you to be brave” may be the best brainstorming advice, ever—and that was the very first thing I heard as I sat in on a recent brainstorming session. I attended as a guest, hoping to...
8 Key Visual Tools for Business Analysts
Business Analysts are like parkour athletes. You’ve surely seen videos of these nearly superhuman tricks: fast-moving men and women springing off vertical walls, hopping from rooftop to rooftop, running across railings high above a city. They cleverly and quickly...
Perform CPR to Unclutter Your Busy in 3 Simple Steps
Do you wish you could unclutter your busy and be more productive? Start today by making small changes and you will see improvements and clarity almost instantly. Just learn these three easy steps spelled out by the acronym CPR. As a facilitator, project manager and...
Dumping out the Legos – How to Improve your Creative Thinking
Remember when you were a kid playing with Legos®? The first thing you did was dump them all out on the floor! I still remember that crashing sound, and watching all those pieces come together in a glorious pile of opportunities right there in front of me. Fortunately,...
Brainstorm Your Life: How to Quickly Calm Your Mind and Organize Your Tasks
How long can you focus your mind on one topic? For most of us, that’s one of the biggest challenges of day to day life. You have a crazy long list of things you need to accomplish, and when you think about all of those demands your mind jumps from one idea to the next...
6 Simple Steps to Visual Problem Solving
Chances are, you’d describe yourself as a visual thinker. Scientific studies reveal between 65% and 80% of people fit this category. Visual thinking likely played a big role in our evolution; the ability to see a threat and react to it ensured our survival....
How to build a simple visual processing board using Cardsmith
Using these 7 simple steps you can build your own visual processing board The logic that is used in these simple steps can be used for both personal use and team use to aid collaboration, extend focus and improve the speed with which tasks are completed. Common...
New Board Features!
In the spirit of improving visual collaboration, your Home Board is getting a makeover! We are releasing new features so that you see at-a-glance changes to shared boards and comments from team members. Your Cardsmith Home Board has a new look. Your boards have a bold...
How to Build Your Own Kanban or Scrumban Board in 12 Steps
“If you are together in a room, use sticky notes. If some of your team members are remote - use Cardsmith. Cardsmith is the closest experience to ‘sticky notes on a whiteboard’ as you can get.” Kanban has moved beyond the manufacturing shop floor to become a popular...