This document discusses finding radical ideas through eliminating problems, identifying related players, and applying solutions from different contexts. It introduces these three starting points - What, Who, and How - for generating radical ideas. The document provides examples for each starting point and includes a cheat sheet summarizing the What, Who, and How approach to idea generation.
On January 16th, 2014, the Design For America Stanford Studio gathered to share their progress on topics including patients and pills, distracted driving, support for parents of children with autism, and others. This session was designed to design fast experiments to advance understanding of the problem space by testing assumptions and possible solutions.
No Time to Waste: Implementing a Crisis Communication Social Media Plan – Kat...Social Media Day Lafayette
In today's fast-paced society, we are constantly bombarded with duties that must be fulfilled in our professional and professional lives before it is too late. Unfortunately, while operating at warp speed, a simple misunderstanding, delayed delivery, unassuming encounter, misstep or catastrophic event can wreak havoc for you, your organization, your business or your product(s) – especially on social media. Since social media reaches the masses, instantaneous, how do you handle a crisis when public opinion spreads like wildfire, often, void of facts? In a New-York minute, you find yourself or your organization in a crisis; you are under attack! There is no time to waste in order to recover.
AlchemyKnights is a transformational game designed to teach adolescents and teens about the dangers of over-the-counter medication misuse. In this session we will discuss design strategies for transformational games, mapping design features to transformational outcomes, and using an iterative develop-playtest-fix approach to evaluate and measure the transformational effect
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There are two sets of difficulties in doctoral work - mental confusion and emotional challenges. There are also two sets main places to go for help: to your university and to web resources - This two by two outline is discussed with step by step suggestions.
On January 16th, 2014, the Design For America Stanford Studio gathered to share their progress on topics including patients and pills, distracted driving, support for parents of children with autism, and others. This session was designed to design fast experiments to advance understanding of the problem space by testing assumptions and possible solutions.
No Time to Waste: Implementing a Crisis Communication Social Media Plan – Kat...Social Media Day Lafayette
In today's fast-paced society, we are constantly bombarded with duties that must be fulfilled in our professional and professional lives before it is too late. Unfortunately, while operating at warp speed, a simple misunderstanding, delayed delivery, unassuming encounter, misstep or catastrophic event can wreak havoc for you, your organization, your business or your product(s) – especially on social media. Since social media reaches the masses, instantaneous, how do you handle a crisis when public opinion spreads like wildfire, often, void of facts? In a New-York minute, you find yourself or your organization in a crisis; you are under attack! There is no time to waste in order to recover.
AlchemyKnights is a transformational game designed to teach adolescents and teens about the dangers of over-the-counter medication misuse. In this session we will discuss design strategies for transformational games, mapping design features to transformational outcomes, and using an iterative develop-playtest-fix approach to evaluate and measure the transformational effect
This powerpoint was created by a Technology Integration Specialist in New Prague, Shawn Brandt. [Retrieved 2-26-11 from www.np.k12.mn.us/TechIntegration]
A map through doctoral confusion: Strategies for the mental and emotional dif...DoctoralNet Limited
There are two sets of difficulties in doctoral work - mental confusion and emotional challenges. There are also two sets main places to go for help: to your university and to web resources - This two by two outline is discussed with step by step suggestions.
The whole idea behind creative problem solving is the assumption that you know something that will help solve this problem, but you're not thinking of it right now.
Here are 6 out of 11 tips on problem solving skills. For more tips of this type, click the link: http://vkool.com/11-tips-on-problem-solving-skills/.
Being able to solve problems quickly and efficiently without hesitance or difficulties is every person’s dream. There is not a fixed formula to solve every problem in daily life or at work. However, there are skills that help us get out of difficult situations easily.
1. Indentify Your Problems
You need to admit that you are having problems before thinking about solutions to them. If you do not recognize the problems or if you try to ignore them, you will not be able to find a good way to handle them.
2. Analyze Problems
Analyzing problems thoroughly is one of the most helpful tips on problem solving skills. The process of analyzing determines the success in problem solving. It is important to know the main causes of the problems you have so that you can solve them from the root. Root cause analysis will show you how to get over your difficulty step by step.
You should also look over the effects caused by the problems you have, and decide what problem should be solved first.
3. Solve Important Problems First
Important problems are problems that can cause big effects on your life or work. You should try to figure them out and resolve them as soon as possible. No matter how hard they are, you should still keep working on them until they are completely solved. Do not hesitate to ask for help from other people around you if you cannot handle these serious cases on your own.
4. Generate Potential Solutions
You may think about some old solutions you have made or learnt from someone, but do not stick to them as they may not suit the problems you are having. You should also find out some new solutions that can best solve your issues. You can make a list of all the solutions you can find and determine how to carry them out.
5. Make Plans
After choosing the right solutions to your problems, you should prepare for carrying out those solutions by making a specific and detailed plan. You will be unable to perform solutions well when you do not really know where to start. The plan for carrying out solutions should be as specific and concrete as possible.
You should also prepare to face with things that may go wrong in the process of solving your problem. It is not easy to control everything at 100% success rate as unexpected thing may happen any time.
6. Carry Out Solutions
This step is the most important of your problem solving process. It is time you carry out the solutions you opt. You should try your best to do it step by step successfully. This is time to take action, so you should no longer worry if the solutions you choose are good or not, just focus on acting out, and see the outcomes. I believe that you will be successful after all.
You need to think out of the box. That is what people say very often. But they never tell you HOW to do it!Thinking laterally can perhaps be described as the non-standard approach to problem solving. This is the kind of thinking that is executed when you feel trapped in a deadlock. To do this, you need a creative spirit that is pushed to the limit. Unlike a vertical thinker who is analytical, rigid, and precise, a lateral thinker is implausible, flexible, and guileful.
Jyväskylän Tiimiakatemian Rohkeat Tekijät valmennusohjelman 1. 3-päivän moduuli pidettiin Jämsän kupeessa Morvassa 12.-14.3.2014 teemana asiakasymmärrys. Tässä himena työkaluja mitä kävimme porukalla läpi ja treenasimme yhdessä.
Moonshot thinking aims for a 10x improvement over what currently exists, instead of a mere 10% gain. It address a huge problem, proposes a radical solution, and uses breakthrough technology to make it happen.
This is a short talk and workshop (30' + 90') to give a first introduction to design thinking. Gives theory foundation, notes a few different approaches, and then dives into one of them.
This presentation was first done at ImpactON / StartupChile evening in 2015.
This was a half day working session for faculty development done recently at SJBIT, Bangalore. Objective is to introduce innovation and initiate action for set up a structure for developing student ideas.
The whole idea behind creative problem solving is the assumption that you know something that will help solve this problem, but you're not thinking of it right now.
Here are 6 out of 11 tips on problem solving skills. For more tips of this type, click the link: http://vkool.com/11-tips-on-problem-solving-skills/.
Being able to solve problems quickly and efficiently without hesitance or difficulties is every person’s dream. There is not a fixed formula to solve every problem in daily life or at work. However, there are skills that help us get out of difficult situations easily.
1. Indentify Your Problems
You need to admit that you are having problems before thinking about solutions to them. If you do not recognize the problems or if you try to ignore them, you will not be able to find a good way to handle them.
2. Analyze Problems
Analyzing problems thoroughly is one of the most helpful tips on problem solving skills. The process of analyzing determines the success in problem solving. It is important to know the main causes of the problems you have so that you can solve them from the root. Root cause analysis will show you how to get over your difficulty step by step.
You should also look over the effects caused by the problems you have, and decide what problem should be solved first.
3. Solve Important Problems First
Important problems are problems that can cause big effects on your life or work. You should try to figure them out and resolve them as soon as possible. No matter how hard they are, you should still keep working on them until they are completely solved. Do not hesitate to ask for help from other people around you if you cannot handle these serious cases on your own.
4. Generate Potential Solutions
You may think about some old solutions you have made or learnt from someone, but do not stick to them as they may not suit the problems you are having. You should also find out some new solutions that can best solve your issues. You can make a list of all the solutions you can find and determine how to carry them out.
5. Make Plans
After choosing the right solutions to your problems, you should prepare for carrying out those solutions by making a specific and detailed plan. You will be unable to perform solutions well when you do not really know where to start. The plan for carrying out solutions should be as specific and concrete as possible.
You should also prepare to face with things that may go wrong in the process of solving your problem. It is not easy to control everything at 100% success rate as unexpected thing may happen any time.
6. Carry Out Solutions
This step is the most important of your problem solving process. It is time you carry out the solutions you opt. You should try your best to do it step by step successfully. This is time to take action, so you should no longer worry if the solutions you choose are good or not, just focus on acting out, and see the outcomes. I believe that you will be successful after all.
You need to think out of the box. That is what people say very often. But they never tell you HOW to do it!Thinking laterally can perhaps be described as the non-standard approach to problem solving. This is the kind of thinking that is executed when you feel trapped in a deadlock. To do this, you need a creative spirit that is pushed to the limit. Unlike a vertical thinker who is analytical, rigid, and precise, a lateral thinker is implausible, flexible, and guileful.
Jyväskylän Tiimiakatemian Rohkeat Tekijät valmennusohjelman 1. 3-päivän moduuli pidettiin Jämsän kupeessa Morvassa 12.-14.3.2014 teemana asiakasymmärrys. Tässä himena työkaluja mitä kävimme porukalla läpi ja treenasimme yhdessä.
Moonshot thinking aims for a 10x improvement over what currently exists, instead of a mere 10% gain. It address a huge problem, proposes a radical solution, and uses breakthrough technology to make it happen.
This is a short talk and workshop (30' + 90') to give a first introduction to design thinking. Gives theory foundation, notes a few different approaches, and then dives into one of them.
This presentation was first done at ImpactON / StartupChile evening in 2015.
This was a half day working session for faculty development done recently at SJBIT, Bangalore. Objective is to introduce innovation and initiate action for set up a structure for developing student ideas.
This is a presentation of Cyriel Kortleven (www.cyrielkortleven.com) about thinking outside the box and exploring different skills to give your creativity a boost.
The creative process, six common creative techniques and examplesGerard Prins
Applied Creativity is a process that starts with problem definition, followed by analysis, followed by creative production (cyclical divergent and convergent thinking), followed by execution.
In this presentation I briefly describe the steps that could be taken and a few useful tools to make this process more structured and - hopefully - productive.
For your edutainment, I also describe six of the most common creative techniques used in advertising, each illustrated with examples of what I consider good to excellent creative work.
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Ai Workshop Slides Used By John Loty In 2008.John Loty
These slides together with a workbook were used in a 2 day Introductory Workshop on Appreciative Inquiry and how AI is being used for change management and organisational development.
12. radical (adj)
pronunciation: ra-di-kəl
marked by a considerable departure from
the usual or traditional; tending or
disposed to make extreme changes in
existing views, habits, conditions, or
institutions
38. Finding Radical Ideas Cheat Sheet
What Who How
Can you eliminate Who are the How can you
the problem? adjacent players apply solution
and problems or from another
opportunities? context?
39. What Problem:
Paper coffee
Can you eliminate
the problem?
cup is too hot
to touch
40. Who Seller:
Textbook
Who are the
publishers
adjacent players
and problems or
opportunities?
Buyer:
School districts
41. How Solution:
Amazon
How can you
apply solution
from another
1-Click
context?
Editor's Notes
(introductions)
Let’s start with a question. What’s an invention you can’t live without?(TV, car, microwave, iPhone, etc. . . .)What do these things have in common?At one point, they were all radical ideas. In the 1970’s, the idea you could carry your music around with you in full stereo sound was a crazy idea.
But then the folks at Sony invented the Walkman and changed everything.Their radical idea changed the future of how we interact with our entertainment, how we exercise, even how we ride the bus.All it took was a single radical idea to open up a huge window into the future.Imagining the future today is possible – but you have to take some big leaps of faith.
To get to the future now – and to get to real growth - you have to think differently.You have to start with some radical ideas.To get to radical ideas, you have to move past incremental thinking.
Incremental thinking – asking questions such as:- What are your pains?What is or isn’t feasible?Is very grounded in what is known today.So if you had asked someone who owned a horse drawn carriage about his pains and what he wants – he’d probably tell you he wants a faster horse.
That kind of incremental view would lead you to incremental improvements.So you might come up with an incremental solution – add more horses.
So instead of getting to your destination in a week, you get there in a few days.An incremental solution leads to an incremental result.
But radical thinking will lead you to very different results.Think about a combustion engine.
The internal combustion engine leads you to a completely different way of moving people – an automobile.Not more horses to go faster.
Radical ideas like the combustion engine lead to seismic shifts.New industriesCars vs. horsesAirplanes vs. shipsTelevision vs. radioAnd huge growth. Billion dollar industries.And complete changes in how we live and what the world looks like.
Radical doesn’t necessarily mean crazy – it’s a considerable departureA radical idea helps you see existing situations from a new perspectiveA radical idea is not incremental It’s only radical today . . . Tomorrow it will be the usual
Finding radical ideas may sound easyBut in reality in a muscle you need to train and use often to perfect the skillsWe have simplified this skill for youAnd condensed it down to jumping off points to get your ideas flowingThere are 3 starting points you can go from:The WhatThe WhoThe How
Let’s start with the what. We all talk often about making things easier, making them simpler, making it one click, etc BUTWhat if you go beyond addressing the pain or solving the problem – to completely eliminating the problem?Vs. just making it easierWhat kinds of radical ideas would you find?
Here’s an example.A problem that many of us have encountered is painfully long lines at car rental counters.Now, you could try to solve this problem in a number of ways.You could make the line more pleasant – free donuts, free coffee, free internet.Maybe even show some 1st run movies to pass the time.But how about getting rid of the line entirely?
Hertz actually did this. They created the #1 Club Gold program so customers could skip the line and just go straight to their car. That’s an example of completely eliminating the problem instead of just making incremental improvement.
OK, let’s try this out together with another example.Here’s the problem: Money is easy to counterfeitIncremental improvements: special paper, special ink, etc.How do you eliminate the problem? (Ask for audience response)
Basically, a credit card eliminates the problem of counterfeiting cash.Of course, it brings up new problems, too.But it creates a whole new world of opportunities – points/rewards cards, online shopping, you name it. It creates a seismic shift!
Now we are going to get into small groups and try finding radical ideas together.Each team works on the problem for 20 mins.Your team needs to select the best/most radical idea to present back to the group. Don’t limit yourself. Don’t worry about what’s feasible. Be free to be ridiculous. Look for the ideas that sound impossible or crazy. Push past the obvious answers to more radical ideas. Be open as a group to explore ideas and ladder off of each others thoughts. Stop looking for why you can’t. Look for why you CAN.
The next starting point is to look at the who.Not just looking at the persona – not just the “customer”. Go sideways. Go up and down.Who are the players that are related or adjacent to your target customer?Are there opportunities to create experiences or solutions for them that will indirectly benefit your target customer?
Think about restaurant reservation systems.Traditionally, a company making reservation systems would sell that software to restaurants, who would use the system to enter in reservations called in by their customers and manage these reservations.So the main customer of the reservation system is the restaurant.An adjacent player is the restaurant patron.
Open Table solves the problem of managing restaurant reservations by looking at an adjacent player – the restaurant customer.Now, instead of the customer calling 1 restaurant to make a reservation, the customer can make reservations online for multiple restaurants.And if they can’t get a reservation at 1 restaurant, they can get suggestions for other restaurants close by.And restaurants benefit because more customers are exposed to them.
OK, let’s try identifying more who’s.How about help wanted ads – newspapers sell space for want ads to employers looking to hire.Who are some other adjacent or related players? Think outside the box.
So job seekers are a very important adjacent player – and companies like Monster.com created solutions for them to proactively broadcast their resumes to companies who may be looking for someone with their skills and experience.This opens up lots of new possibilities – resume services, advice, career tools . . .
The third starting point is looking at the how.Normally we start with the customer, the problem then the solution.Usually, a solution looking for a problem is a bad thing.But is it always?Sometimes an ingenious solution in one context can help you solve a problem in a completely different context.
Here’s an example from nature.This is a cocklebur. They get stuck in your socks when you go hiking.A Swiss engineer was on a walk one day and found some cockleburs sticking to his jacket. He was fascinated by how strongly they adhered to his jacket, so he examined one under a microscope. This eventually led him to create Velcro.
Velcro was the solution looking for a new problem . . . And one problem was that it’s hard for kids to learn how to tie their shoes, but they need to keep their shoes on.
OK, let’s try this in practice.The solution is an all-you-can eat buffet.What are the elements of the solution? What’s good about that?What other contexts could you apply that thinking to?
One example is the US Postal Service’s flat rate priority mail box. Ship whatever you can stuff into the box for 1 fixed price.Other examples:Amazon PrimeUnited luggageGymsMoney machines
Look for places to find crazy ideas . . . Conferences, publications
What:Take the given problem and think how you could eliminate the problem completelyWhat other opportunities/problems would that yield?
Textbook publishers and schoolsTextbooks themselves are very undifferentiated – books from different publishers aren’t that much different from one anotherWho are some adjacent players? Teachers, students, who else? Think about how textbooks are distributed and used today . . . What’s their lifecycle?
Amazon 1-click – how would it look in a completely different context?Think about where you’ve been in the past few days – how could 1-click work in these contexts?