Paul VanZandt

How Digital Whiteboards Help Innovation Managers

Being an innovation manager means you’re constantly having to evaluate not only how you can improve the projects you’re working on, but also how you can improve your personal and shared workflows. Innovating your workflow is not just about changing [...]

The History of the Whiteboard and Ideation

Nobody living today will remember a time where there wasn’t a blackboard or a whiteboard at the front of the classroom. In the last two centuries, these tools have been central to the classroom and the innovation process, but there [...]

7 Ways Mind Maps Fuel Innovation

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation. But very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. Mind maps create an intuitive structure of thought that enables your team to map out their scenarios in a [...]

6 Creative Innovation Exercises for Online Whiteboards

Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking. These are things that don’t come easily. In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways [...]

Brainstorming on a White Board: Prompts and Techniques

Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. While it is such a universal exercise, there are many different ways to go about brainstorming. And we have found that whiteboard sessions are some [...]

The Best Templates for Agile Methodology

Agile methodology is one of the most popular methods of software development and is a great way to organize and plan projects with your team. When organizing sprints, it’s important to share knowledge and information with your team, and the [...]

How Design Thinking Promotes Innovation

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. In reality, [...]

How Online Whiteboards Create Lasting Innovation

Innovation is critical to establishing new solutions and is something that every business handles. It can come in many different forms and styles. But regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. However, when working in a digital [...]