This document outlines an ideation workshop focused on identifying business opportunities in Colombia. It discusses developing creative confidence and provides tools for solving complex problems in a better way. The workshop covers mindsets for different creative stages, generating many ideas through brainstorming and building on others' ideas, and selecting ideas that are both unique and valuable. The goal is to help participants change their lives and develop great ideas for future businesses by scoping problems, generating solutions, and pitching ideas.
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Ideation is at the heart of the Design Thinking process. Ideation sessions help you to challenge assumptions, think outside the box, and explore uncharted territory. In the ideation phase, you explore and come up with as many ideas as possible.
In this presentation guide, you will learn and develop skills in six types of ideation techniques that can be used in the Design Thinking cycle. They include:
1. Brainstorming
2. 2 x 2 Matrix
3. Dot Voting
4. 6-3-5 Method (Brainwriting)
5. Special Brainstorming (Negative Brainstorming, Figuring Storming, and Bodystorming)
6. NABC (Need, Approach, Benefit and Competition)
This guide provides a means to introduce ideation techniques to your workshop participants other than the traditional brainstorming method. It helps to make your ideation sessions fun and exciting.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Gain knowledge on the various ideation techniques that can be used in the design thinking cycle.
2. Develop skills in the application of ideation techniques.
3. Understand the expert tips and key learnings of ideation techniques.
CONTENTS
1. Brainstorming
2. 2 x 2 Matrix
3. Dot Voting
4. 6-3-5 Method
5. Special Brainstorming
6. NABC
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The March 2017 event featured a talk by business designer Christian Rudolph on service design for the circular economy. Christian runs the consultancy ‘next cycle’ and focusses on resource-intensive business models in his work.
Recently, IDEO and the Ellen McArthur Foundation released their Circular Design Guide which introduced more designers to the approach. So it was time for us to discuss the concept’s implications for service designers. Christian has years of experience in consulting industry heavy-weights like Philips and BASF, and helping them transform from linear product-focussed to circular service-oriented businesses. The evening event took take place on Wednesday, March 22nd.
Presenting this set of slides with name - Implementing Design Thinking Powerpoint Presentation Slides. This deck comprises of a total of fourteen slides. It has PPT templates with creative visuals and well-researched content. This content ready presentation deck is fully editable. Just click the DOWNLOAD button below. Change the color, text and font size. You can also modify the content as per your need. Users can easily download the presentation slides in a widescreen and standard format. These templates are compatible with Google Slides too. The user can use the PowerPoint presentation in PDF or JPG format.
Ideation is at the heart of the Design Thinking process. Ideation sessions help you to challenge assumptions, think outside the box, and explore uncharted territory. In the ideation phase, you explore and come up with as many ideas as possible.
In this presentation guide, you will learn and develop skills in six types of ideation techniques that can be used in the Design Thinking cycle. They include:
1. Brainstorming
2. 2 x 2 Matrix
3. Dot Voting
4. 6-3-5 Method (Brainwriting)
5. Special Brainstorming (Negative Brainstorming, Figuring Storming, and Bodystorming)
6. NABC (Need, Approach, Benefit and Competition)
This guide provides a means to introduce ideation techniques to your workshop participants other than the traditional brainstorming method. It helps to make your ideation sessions fun and exciting.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Gain knowledge on the various ideation techniques that can be used in the design thinking cycle.
2. Develop skills in the application of ideation techniques.
3. Understand the expert tips and key learnings of ideation techniques.
CONTENTS
1. Brainstorming
2. 2 x 2 Matrix
3. Dot Voting
4. 6-3-5 Method
5. Special Brainstorming
6. NABC
To download this complete presentation, visit: https://www.oeconsulting.com.sg/training-presentations
The March 2017 event featured a talk by business designer Christian Rudolph on service design for the circular economy. Christian runs the consultancy ‘next cycle’ and focusses on resource-intensive business models in his work.
Recently, IDEO and the Ellen McArthur Foundation released their Circular Design Guide which introduced more designers to the approach. So it was time for us to discuss the concept’s implications for service designers. Christian has years of experience in consulting industry heavy-weights like Philips and BASF, and helping them transform from linear product-focussed to circular service-oriented businesses. The evening event took take place on Wednesday, March 22nd.
Centre for Entrepreneurship (C4E) of the University of Cyprus and Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship (ICE) present the:
Why are some designs better than others, and what can you do about it? (The workshop)
If you've ever described a poster as heavy, a website as dense, an app as clumsy or an object as whimsical, you probably already know the answer. Recent psychology research is showing that experiential metaphors are key emotional drivers that impact our perception of the world. Applying these findings to design confirms what designers have learned throughout their careers—good design is subconscious first and rational second. Michael will share stories from this research and the IDEO portfolio then share tools to help you be more consciously subconscious.
Developed by students at Stanford University, the Design Thinking approach was created to establish a new way to grow innovative products, processes and services. The Design Thinking process consists of six iterative stages which enable participants to seek flexible solutions and innovations concerning the issue they treat.
One important aspect of Design Thinking is the creation and cultivation of ideas within a well-coordinated team. Thus, the team spirit is a decisive element during Design Thinking operations and encourages to produce the best possible results. In addition to the team side of Design Thinking, a flexible and productive environment is crucial to develop inventive ideas and products. The more workable an environment, is the easier it is for employees to visualize and transmit thoughts and new concepts.
📌 Go to http://bit.ly/build-business-ideas to read the full article! 👇🏻
10-steps guide for corporate innovators to:
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- Validate business ideas with proved methodologies
- Communicate these ideas more effectively with a structured format
Introduction to a methodology and mindset @ Design Thinking Week Warsaw 2015, Centrum Zarządzania Innowacjami i Transferem Technologii Politechniki Warszawskiej
What is innovation?
Various types of innovation?
The process of innovation.
Examples of successful and unsuccessful innovation.
packaging innovation.
Importance of innovation.
Design Thinking & Agile Innovation Workshop combining elements from Design Thinking, Customer Development, Christensen's Jobs to be Done, Osterwalder's Value Proposition Canvas, Javelin Experiment Board, Lean Startup and Paper Prototyping.
LEAN STARTUP LIFECYCLE: 5 Stages in the Evolution of Billion Dollar $tartupsRod King, Ph.D.
This presentation builds on Steve Blank's three stage model for the evolution of scalable startups. Steve Blank's three stages are Startup, Transition, and Company. The above "Lean Startup Lifecycle" includes these three stages as well as illustrates other ideas such as Problem-Solution Fit, Product-Market Fit, and Business Model Fit/Scaling. Unlike in Steve Blank's approach, the Lean Startup Lifecycle presents the OTHER Loop as tool for solving novel (emergent) and routine (deliberate) problems when building a scalable startup.
The Lean Startup Lifecycle can be used as a descriptive tool to comprehensively explain the evolution of scalable startups as well as a prescriptive tool or roadmap for guiding the development of scalable startups or Billion Dollar Companies. The Lean Startup Lifecycle posits that every Billion Dollar $tartup goes through forms in its lifecycle: Adaptive Startup; Shaping Startup; Transition; Visionary Company; Classic Company.
20 Innovation Tools that can help make innovation projects more successful and enjoyable.
We hope that this booklet can inspire you to challenge the way you innovate. Try out some of it with your teams right away, rather than wait for the perfect occasion.
A workshop on Value Proposition Design by Sam Rye from Lifehack & Enspiral.
This workshop takes you through the Value Proposition Canvas, helps you pitch your vision, and lays out a short exercise to make a 2D or 3D prototype of your solution for feedback.
It draws heavily on the content, language and concepts from this book, which we highly recommend you buy if you're serious about (social) entepreneurship or intrapreneurship : https://strategyzer.com/value-proposition-design
Business Model Generation: Business Model Canvas + Design ThinkingSiddhant Choudhary
A business model describes the rationale of how an organisation creates, delivers and captures value. This ppt runs you through basics of business model generation.
Creativity and Innovation - Ketchum ChangeTyler Durham
Creativity and innovation don’t occur in a vacuum. Leaders must set the conditions for success, model the right behaviors, facilitate an environment that encourages experimentation and pioneering, and gather the best ideas from all employees. Learn about the six main constraints to creative and innovation success, how organizations are transforming themselves to harness employee and external ideas to create, innovate, and evolve – and the characteristics of successful leaders who inspire creativity and innovation.
Introduction to select Ideation tools..Atul Manohar
My favorite tools for ideation that Picked up from friends and gurus. Have tried to use some of these tools in variety of the design projects spanning a few design disciplines.
In this workshop I will introduce these tools with select case studies followed by a hands on workshop, where participants get to use some of these tools.
Brainstorming
6W Questions
Brainstorming with 6 thinking hats
Business model Canvas
Mind mapping
Idea Matrix
Role playing
Story telling
Users participate
Value articulation
Centre for Entrepreneurship (C4E) of the University of Cyprus and Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship (ICE) present the:
Why are some designs better than others, and what can you do about it? (The workshop)
If you've ever described a poster as heavy, a website as dense, an app as clumsy or an object as whimsical, you probably already know the answer. Recent psychology research is showing that experiential metaphors are key emotional drivers that impact our perception of the world. Applying these findings to design confirms what designers have learned throughout their careers—good design is subconscious first and rational second. Michael will share stories from this research and the IDEO portfolio then share tools to help you be more consciously subconscious.
Developed by students at Stanford University, the Design Thinking approach was created to establish a new way to grow innovative products, processes and services. The Design Thinking process consists of six iterative stages which enable participants to seek flexible solutions and innovations concerning the issue they treat.
One important aspect of Design Thinking is the creation and cultivation of ideas within a well-coordinated team. Thus, the team spirit is a decisive element during Design Thinking operations and encourages to produce the best possible results. In addition to the team side of Design Thinking, a flexible and productive environment is crucial to develop inventive ideas and products. The more workable an environment, is the easier it is for employees to visualize and transmit thoughts and new concepts.
📌 Go to http://bit.ly/build-business-ideas to read the full article! 👇🏻
10-steps guide for corporate innovators to:
------------------------------------------------------
- Validate business ideas with proved methodologies
- Communicate these ideas more effectively with a structured format
Introduction to a methodology and mindset @ Design Thinking Week Warsaw 2015, Centrum Zarządzania Innowacjami i Transferem Technologii Politechniki Warszawskiej
What is innovation?
Various types of innovation?
The process of innovation.
Examples of successful and unsuccessful innovation.
packaging innovation.
Importance of innovation.
Design Thinking & Agile Innovation Workshop combining elements from Design Thinking, Customer Development, Christensen's Jobs to be Done, Osterwalder's Value Proposition Canvas, Javelin Experiment Board, Lean Startup and Paper Prototyping.
LEAN STARTUP LIFECYCLE: 5 Stages in the Evolution of Billion Dollar $tartupsRod King, Ph.D.
This presentation builds on Steve Blank's three stage model for the evolution of scalable startups. Steve Blank's three stages are Startup, Transition, and Company. The above "Lean Startup Lifecycle" includes these three stages as well as illustrates other ideas such as Problem-Solution Fit, Product-Market Fit, and Business Model Fit/Scaling. Unlike in Steve Blank's approach, the Lean Startup Lifecycle presents the OTHER Loop as tool for solving novel (emergent) and routine (deliberate) problems when building a scalable startup.
The Lean Startup Lifecycle can be used as a descriptive tool to comprehensively explain the evolution of scalable startups as well as a prescriptive tool or roadmap for guiding the development of scalable startups or Billion Dollar Companies. The Lean Startup Lifecycle posits that every Billion Dollar $tartup goes through forms in its lifecycle: Adaptive Startup; Shaping Startup; Transition; Visionary Company; Classic Company.
20 Innovation Tools that can help make innovation projects more successful and enjoyable.
We hope that this booklet can inspire you to challenge the way you innovate. Try out some of it with your teams right away, rather than wait for the perfect occasion.
A workshop on Value Proposition Design by Sam Rye from Lifehack & Enspiral.
This workshop takes you through the Value Proposition Canvas, helps you pitch your vision, and lays out a short exercise to make a 2D or 3D prototype of your solution for feedback.
It draws heavily on the content, language and concepts from this book, which we highly recommend you buy if you're serious about (social) entepreneurship or intrapreneurship : https://strategyzer.com/value-proposition-design
Business Model Generation: Business Model Canvas + Design ThinkingSiddhant Choudhary
A business model describes the rationale of how an organisation creates, delivers and captures value. This ppt runs you through basics of business model generation.
Creativity and Innovation - Ketchum ChangeTyler Durham
Creativity and innovation don’t occur in a vacuum. Leaders must set the conditions for success, model the right behaviors, facilitate an environment that encourages experimentation and pioneering, and gather the best ideas from all employees. Learn about the six main constraints to creative and innovation success, how organizations are transforming themselves to harness employee and external ideas to create, innovate, and evolve – and the characteristics of successful leaders who inspire creativity and innovation.
Introduction to select Ideation tools..Atul Manohar
My favorite tools for ideation that Picked up from friends and gurus. Have tried to use some of these tools in variety of the design projects spanning a few design disciplines.
In this workshop I will introduce these tools with select case studies followed by a hands on workshop, where participants get to use some of these tools.
Brainstorming
6W Questions
Brainstorming with 6 thinking hats
Business model Canvas
Mind mapping
Idea Matrix
Role playing
Story telling
Users participate
Value articulation
To explore how ideas fit within the opportunity identification process
To define and illustrate the sources of opportunity for entrepreneurs
To identify the four models of market opportunity: competition, innovation, alertness and social need
To examine the role of creativity and to review the major components of the creative process: knowledge accumulation, incubation process, idea evaluation and implementation
To present ways of developing personal creativity: recognise relationships, use lateral thinking, use your ‘brains’, think outside the box, identify arenas of creativity and work in creative climates
To introduce how innovation can inspire opportunity through invention, extension, duplication and synthesis
To review some of the major misconceptions associated with innovation and to define the 10 principles of innovation
To consider the challenges and changing dynamics of social and sustainability innovation
Reignite your desire to improve (NDC Sydney 2018)Richard Banks
"We're doing pretty well. There's not much to improve on" #sigh
It's so, so easy to get improvement fatigue. To become overly familiar and comfortable with the little dysfunctions in how you and your team work. To stop improving and start missing out on the fresh ideas and experiments that could elevate your team beyond the level they're currently working at.
Let's explore the common problems teams often become comfortable with, and ideas for addressing them. Let's explore what you could try that can help your team think differently, to challenge the status quo, and to help you and your team reinvigorate your desire to improve and to raise your game to the next level!
We all have the capability to be innovative. The challenge is how to channel the creativity of both individuals and organisations to deliver exceptional fundraising results. This presentation shares innovation inspiration from the charity and corporate sectors to help you develop a personal attitude for innovation and develop ideas for your fundraising.
Every startup begins with an idea. This is a talk on how to come up with startup ideas and how to use validation to pick the ones worth working on. It's based on the book "Hello, Startup" (http://www.hello-startup.net/). You can find the video of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmiE8d_5Pw
For our Leadership and Change class, we choose a book called "Creative Confidence" by David and Tom Kelley. We assigned for that read from Chapter 1-3 and we must presented this book in 30-45 minutes to discuss about this book and engage with my audience. We required to have two or three class questions and key takeaways that we learned from each chapters on this book. We share our core beliefs that we have thoughts about this book that we applied this to our experiences that we use these leadership skills for any organizations in the future. The presentation is included faith integration and summary key words.
Creative Classroom - How to enable students to reach their creative potentialStartup Experience
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Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
7. Goals for today
Change your lives
Build your creative confidence
Give you the tools to solve
complex problems in a better
way
Develop great ideas for future
businesses
24. 1: Scoping
2: Generating
3: Grouping
4: Conceptualizing
5: Final Selection
Model for systematic
creativity
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25. Mindset in the creative stages
Yellow
Define the problem
• Be curious
• Ask questions
• Be precise
• Investigate the
problem
• Frame the problem
statement
Green
Generate ideas
• Be open
• Be crazy
• Generate ideas
• Look for synergies
• See opportunities
• ”yes and…”
Red
Evaluate and
choose
• Be logical
• Be critical
• Be realistic
• Use data and
quantify
• “Yes because… no
because…”
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S
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S
s
30. Overview of challenge areas
• Health and well-being
• Infrastructure
• Recycling and garbage
handling
• General Safety (Violence,
crime, drugs, sexual
harassment)
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• Unemployment
• Homelessness
• Senior citizens
• Agriculture
• Education
31. Examples of topics
-Helping people to learn about finances
- How to avoid getting into debt, how to save up money and getting rewards for
that..
-Helping people to learn about nutrition, food and diet
- How to cook a good meal?
- What types of foods are good for you an why?
-Helping people become more active
- Help people learn how to do sports
- Help people find gym buddies and make it fun to work out
-Helping people learn in a fun way
- Any educational content can be gamified
-Gaming for health
- To prevent diseases (smoke, diabetes, allergies, social dynamics, anti-bullying,
general health)
31
33. “if I had only 1 hour to save the world
I would spend 55 minutes defining
the problem and 5 minutes finding
the solution”
– Albert Einstein
34. Identify
Stage 2 - Template 1 out of 3
New insights about your user
Data points fromexpert interviews and onlineresearch.
Your main user segment
Users
Based on thesub-challenges from
stage1- list thedifferent user
user segment per circle.
Problem
areas for
your user segment
List all your user’s problems
35. Scope
Write down one very precise problem statement!
“How can we help X SPECIFIC USER solve X SPECIFIC PROBLEM
40. Rules in the creative process
• See opportunities and forget limitations
• Generate as many ideas as possible quantity
over quality!
• No criticism is allowed
don’t say “no but”, say “yes and..”
• Co-create by building on each others’ ideas
41.
42. Connect the nine dots
Using 4 straight lines without lifting the pen
54. Idea selection
Stage 4 - Template 1 out of 2
How does your product or servicediffer
Not uniqueand not valuable
- you’rea bozo
Uniquebut not valuable
- you’ll own a market that doesn’t exist
Uniqueand valuable
- this is whereyoumakemoney and history
Valuablebut not unique
- you’ll haveto competeon price
Low value
Highlevelofuniqueness
Highvalue
Lowlevelofuniqueness
Diverse audience: focus on introducing valuable tools for entrepreneurs that you can either use in your career as an entrepreneur or use for your students as an entrepreneurship educatorBook: “Leaders make the future”
David Kelley: Creative confidence (early on we get put down and then we stop thinking of ourselves as creative individuals) *I'm just not the creative type.. If you say the wrong thing you are afraid to be judged.. You have heard before that you can do what you believe you can do.. it also works the other way around.. you can't do the things you don't believe you can do.. so by learning some of these techniques you can build your confidence and eventually change the way you look at yourself and start thinking of yourself as a creative person..
Picture of most ridiculous problem in Barcelona..useless gadgets in the world…1st. World problem.. Like can’t get to next level in angry birds or new hoodie to be able to see screenOr britney spears broke a nail / spanishcelebrety whining about something random….
Okay now it’s time for you to get to know each other a little better.. When you work as a team it is crucial that you have a good understanding of each other’s strengths and weaknesses. We are now going to do a quick energizer/teambuilding exercise called The movie trailer of your life!Find your team mates and stand in a circle (each team form a circle) so you can all se each other. Now you will each have exactly one minute to tell the story of your life from the day your were born till this moment where we stand here today. *the facilitator takes time (1 minute count down, let them know when there are 30 seconds left and 5 seconds left) good idea to use a big count down timer like: http://classtools.net/education-games-php/timerWhen we are working in a startup team we sometimes experience a lot of pressure and can easily feel very stressed. In those situations it is important that we know each other really well so we can deal with the conflicts in a good way. Going back to the analogy on how entrepreneurs are superheroes – we all have our superpowers and our Kryptonite (the only material that makes Superman weak) when it comes to teamwork. We will now take a second round where to tell the team about the 2 main skills/competences (superpowers) you are bringing to the team + your two biggest weaknesses when it comes to teamwork (kryptonite) - by sharing these strengths and weaknesses you can really improve your team collaboration.Let the teams choose a team captain who will lead the process to begin with *you can take turns..
*read the slide and explain about this type
*read the slide and explain about this type
*read the slide and explain about this type
It is now time for you to choose one of these three types that you identify with the most. We all have all three types in us, but for now you have to choose just one. REMEMBER to not necessarily choose the type that directly refers to your education – you can easily be a business minded engineer or a design-thinking business person.. When you have chosen your type, you come down here and pick a colored posted that matches this type.*have three different colored sticky-notes in three corner of the room.. Tell the students to stay in the corner that matches their type.. When all students have chosen their type you can start creating the teams. Aim to create teams of 5-6 people per team, 60 students = 10 teams. Make sure there is diversity in all teams – all three types should be represented in every team.
Now it’s time to let the real fun begin – it’s finally time to start ideating. Ideation is the process of systematic creativity, in other words; a structured way to get great new ideas.
First of all it is important to have the right mindset and the right the attitude. Being negative and demotivated can kill all your creativity, so it’s extremely important that all team-members are in it together and willing to work hard to develop new ideas
This model illustrates the shift in mindset in the different creative stages;First we scope the problem = create a very precise problem statement and making sure we have an aligned understanding of the problem in our team. This is extremely important cause if we don’t have a clear understanding of what problem we are trying to solve we will come up with solutions for different problems! – make sure you agree on what problem to solve so you can work in the same direction.Then we Generate ideas = we think divergently (blue sky, everything is possible, no limits) and generate a tons of ideas.In the Sorting stage it is time to cluster the ideas and select the best oneFinally we conceptualize the best idea and describe it in detail
This quote from Einstein highlights how critically important it is that your starting point for this camp is sound and solid, as it forms the basis and foundation for the entire camp. So please take some time to read and discuss the case and use the tasks in this stage to get, as a team, a solid grounding and understanding of the problem.
Scoping the problem statement is one of the absolute most important tasks. If you get this right you will have a much easier time going forward. You have already done most of the work in the previous stages so now it’s just a matter of boiling down the problem description into one very precise sentence. In your guidebook you can find a few examples.*10 minute teamwork: Let the teams revisit their problem statement and create one sentence that summarizes their user segment and the specific problem they want to solve.. Fx “how can we help X specific user solve X specific problem”*tell them to get rid of all distractions; no phones, computers, papers etc. on the table. Only pens, sticky notes and one big piece of paper in the middle of the table where they write the problem statement
When you have the problem statement you can start generating ideas, this is the most fun part of them all. When generating ideas everything is possible. You have to be completely open to new ideas and remember to build on each other’s ideas. There are no bad ideas – even the most crazy and absurd ideas are important cause they might trigger a brilliant idea from your team mates that otherwise wouldn’t have come up.
The more ideas the better.. it takes a lot of good ideas to get one really good idea. It is therefore crucial that you stay open to new crazy ideas since some of these ideas can inspire new and brilliant ideas.
Are there any bad ideas? Sure you can come up with tons of really bad unrealistic ideas – but those ideas are as important, cause they inspire new and better ideas.. Look at Thomas Edison for example.. he didn’t think he had failed – he had just found 1300 new ways not to invent the light bulb. Thomas Edison knew that every failure was a necessary step closer to the solution – you need to fail in order to succeed!
When we generate ideas there are a few ground rules to follow:See opportunities and forget known limitation Generate as many ideas as possible – quantity over quality! No criticism is allowed – don’t say “no but”, say “yes and..” Co-create by building on each others’ ideas To generate ideas effectively we will use a few good brainstorming techniques. We are going to use two powerful techniques today called “Open Brainstorming and Reverse Brainstorming”, These techniques are described in your guidebook *(innovator’s guidebook)
You can try Open brainstorm in two formats that appeal to different people:Brainstorming out loud: write the problem statement in the middle of the table, team members each have a block of sticky notes, write one idea per sticky note then say it out loud and put it in the middle of the table (the idea is that the rest of the teams will get inspired by the ideas and build on those ideas)Brainstorming in silence: To respect the fact that creativity is an individual thing = we need different types of stimuli to be creative, you can try brainstorming in silence – take a time-out and spend 5-10 minutes sitting by yourself and come up with at least 10 new ideas. Then get back together and share your new ideas.*check the time schedule. They have about 30-35 minutes for this exercise
The next energizer we will try now is called “YES I made a mistake!”. *instructions:This energizer helps you get a lot of energy and it also underlines the importance of being able to fail! When we work with creativity we celebrate failures and this is EXTREMELY important! It is okay to fail!!!Cause all those crazy ideas are very important.. If we don’t let ourselves come up with crazy ideas we will never get the radical innovative ideas. We have to allow ourselves to fail.You pair up two and two, stand up and find a place where you can stand up facing each other. Then you choose a topic (e.g. car brands, types of clothing, types of foods, colors, body parts, etc.) if you choose car brands you now start taking turns on mentioning a car brand like Toyota, Mercedes, Honda etc.. If you can’t think of a brand within a second you have lost and you have to scream as loud as you can “YES I MADE A MISTAKE!!!” then you choose a new topic and continue.. *After the energizer you go back to slide 12 and let them revisit their problem statements from the USER stage, encourage the team leader to use the guidebook to find more info..
Now we are changing the mindset and going into the red zone – it is now finally allowed to be critical, rational and logic since we will now start sorting the ideas and eliminating the worst ideas.
Little story about how it’s sometimes better to let go of you ideas…In the “sorting stage” it can sometimes be really hard to let go of our own ideas.. We tend to fall in love with our own ideas and it can be very difficult to realize that we need to let it go..Try to tell this story in a good way:"The South Indian Monkey trap...consists of a hollowed-out coconut chained to a stake. The coconut has some rice inside which can be grabbed through a small hole. The hole is big enough so that the monkey's hand can go in, but too small for his fist with rice in it to come out. The monkey reaches in and is suddenly trapped - by nothing more than his own value rigidity. He can't revalue the rice. He cannot see that freedom without rice is more valuable than capture with it.”Point is of course that they should be careful not to get trapped in the South Indian Monkey trap when they are sorting the ideas.. Sometimes other team members have better ideas and then you should be able to let go of your own ideas..
When you have come up with hundreds of ideas it is time to cluster, sort and select the best ideas. In this process it is allowed to be rational and skeptical in order to eliminate the worst ideas. Go through the ideas one by one and read them out loud. Throw away the obviously unrealistic ideas and the ones that are less likely to solve the problem. Try also to combine weak ideas to make bigger and better ideas. Continue until you have found the 10 best ideas.After sorting the ideas you can use the idea selection matrix to find the very best idea. The matrix has two axes ranging from “low” to “high”:X axis: value: how valuable is your product/service for the user? Y axis: uniqueness: how much does your product/service differ from competing products/services? Place the ten ideas on the matrix to get a good overview of their potential. When you are done, the best ideas should be the ones that are highly valuable and well differentiated from competing solutions. take the three best ideas and make a quick vote in the team: which one do you believe in the most? Choose only one idea
Most important to investors is traction – your product’s engagement with its market. In order of importance it is demonstrated through profit, revenue, customers, pilot customers, non-paying users, and verified hypothesis about customer problems. A story without traction is a work of fiction. You must start building your product and start testing it with your market before you start raising money!The market doesn’t seem large, invetors won’t care about yout product, team, or company at all.Is Your Product a Vitamin or a Painkiller? If You Are Here to Raise Money: How Far Will This Money Take You? It is important that you have a realistic estimate of the money you will need and a plan for how to spend it so be prepared to answer questions like: Do you have a financing plan with milestones? How much total money do you need? How far will this money take you? Does the budget have a buffer for unforeseen costs and delays? What is the exit strategy? If there is time you can let them have abother 5 min preparation and then another pitching round 2 and 2..