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How to Do Brainstorming

What Is an Affinity Diagram?

An Affin­i­ty Dia­gram is a tool to gath­er large amounts of data such as ideas, opin­ions, and top­ics and to orga­nize them into group­ings by the sim­i­lar­i­ty of the ideas. Learn the advan­tages of using affin­i­ty dia­grams to sup­port brain­storm­ing and some tips for get­ting started.

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Struc­tured brain­storm­ing activ­i­ty is made eas­i­er when teams can use the affin­i­ty dia­gram to visu­al­ly orga­nize their ideas. Learn the sev­en steps for cre­at­ing and using affin­i­ty dia­grams, as well as the prepa­ra­tion need­ed before get­ting started.