A project team is meeting to seek solutions on a new problem that occurred recently. The meeting is comprised of two parts: the first is a generation of ideas and the second is an analysis. Which…

The correct answer is C. Brainstorming. Brainstorming is a structured two-phase technique: the first phase is divergent - participants freely generate ideas without judgment or filtering; the second phase is convergent - the ideas are analyzed, grouped, evaluated, and refined. The meeting described matches this…

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A project team is meeting to seek solutions on a new problem that occurred recently. The meeting is comprised of two parts: the first is a generation of ideas and the second is an analysis. Which technique is the team using?

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AInterview
BChecklists
CBrainstorming
DFocus group

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A
4% (1)
C
91% (21)
D
4% (1)

Explanation

Brainstorming is a structured two-phase technique: the first phase is divergent - participants freely generate ideas without judgment or filtering; the second phase is convergent - the ideas are analyzed, grouped, evaluated, and refined. The meeting described matches this structure exactly. Interviews are one-on-one information-gathering sessions with no generation-then-analysis structure. Focus groups involve facilitated discussion but do not follow the distinct dual-phase format. Checklists are verification tools used to confirm known items, not to generate or analyze new ideas.

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