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Brainstorming is an individual or group method for generating ideas and solutions to problems. Limitations in Brainstorming / How to overcome: 1. The focus on the quantity of ideas can be derailed easily by criticism or poor facilitation. In such case requires an experienced facilitator who is sensitive to group dynamics and social pressures and not afraid to note violations of the ground rules. 2. Group with a large numbers will not effective. In such case use group size 3 - 10, not more than that. 3. Extroverts or the senior people tend to dominate group work. In such case stop the involvement of senior people in the initial brainstorming session. 4. Some participants will not express their ideas “because of the belief that they will be seen as inarticulate or suggest ideas that have little or no values". In such case use brainwriting. "brainwriting refers to a group of methods that emphasize the silent generation of ideas in writing” 5. Participants social anxiousness or feeling that their ideas will be negatively evaluated by other team members. In such case use nominal group than the interactive brainstorming group. 6. Some participants stay quite during the brainstorm session. In such case use Round Robin method of brainstorming, which allows everyone to pitch in and contribute. 7. The quantity of ideas will suffer when one participant is speaking and blocking the idea generation of the other members. So it is better allow only one group member to speak at a time.

Brainstorming is one of the most basic and effective tool which is used to understand any given problem and find all possible solution with the the help of a focused group/team. Though it is highly used in mostly all the project, it does have some critical limitations which compels project team to use different tools. 1. Brainstorming lists all possible causes/solutions for a problem but outcome is generally not comes out category wise which make it difficult to undertake next possible steps to proceed ahead/focused areas to work on. 2. Prioritization: It is one the most critical gap which is noticed in brainstorming, all causes/solutions are not prioritized in any given way which makes it very difficult for us to prioritize the actions.

Personal Excellence is all about the excellency in our own life. It helps us to achieve more meaningful life in terms of making balance in our relationship, emotional intelligence, our professional career and to make our life more productive. Process Excellence is a continuous improvement process to increase productivity and quality and at the same time to reduce cost with minimum variation. It is all about effectiveness and efficiency of a process. Operational Excellence is something within the organization where all the activities follow some define process flow. It helps to control disrupt in operation or process due to any changes in some interlinked department or process. It ensures that employees of the organization understand the work flow and help to create the culture to practice the standard operational procedure (SOP) and the organization values. Here the focus is customer. So we can say end to end process for better customer satisfaction with low cost. Business Excellence is something where we consider the organization as a whole, consider all the stakeholders and it helps to achieve business goal of the organization. It starts with business strategy, communication between different stakeholders and departments, then to have define process flow, cascading it in the ground and then internalization and ope-rationalization of the strategy. A organization can have very effective and efficient process and operation but poor communication, weak strategy, loophole in the change management system will not help to achieve business goal and hence to achieve Business Excellence.