This document discusses ideas for improving the transition from school to work. It proposes that employers participate more in the education process through policies with universities. Many ideas are generated, such as increasing internships, integrating companies into schools, and requiring that skills needed by employers are offered in school courses. The most practical idea is incorporating school activities that meet real needs of external organizations. The most disruptive idea is directly implanting needed skills into students' brains for quick expertise. The author's favorite ideas are working with all stakeholders to change curriculums based on broader needs, and allowing companies to provide recognized degree programs.

1. Ideate
Gerardo Muniz
Design Thinking Workshop
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2. 2
Solution Ideas for the Problem Statement:
Employers need the policies to participate in
education process with Universities to get a
successful School to Work transition.

3. 3
Generate Ideas
Employers need the policies to
participate in education process
with Universities to get a
successful School to Work
transition.
- No degree required to get a job.
- Employees as teachers at schools.
- Increase internships.
- Integration of companies in schools.
- Integration of schools in companies and government.
- Required employees´ skills offered at school.
- On-line courses offered by school.
- Global Universities for specific employers.
- Hire from 5 years old & educate then.
- Needed skills implanted
directly in student´s brain.
- No hire students from schools.

4. 4
Generate Ideas
(Cont.)
Employers need the policies to
participate in education process
with Universities to get a
successful School to Work
transition.
- Incorporate activities at school
according real needs of external
organizations. - Build multidisciplinary teams, students – employers.
- Employers as tutors of talented
students.
- Transfer work at student´s home.
- Real problems solved by
employees as case studies at
school.
- Students directly as employers.
- Every single
graduate tutored by a
employee at the new
organization.
- Agreements between
schools and employers to
make easier transition.
- Decrease expectations of the new hire
graduates to low pressure. - Employers as headhunters hosted by schools.

5. 5
Employers need the policies to
participate in education process
with Universities to get a
successful School to Work
transition.
Generate Ideas
(Cont.)
- Students take positions in organizations and the
work done recognized as course at school.
- Create resources to
help schools.
- Work together (employers, government, and
schools) to change the curriculum of the students.
- Hire students to have
fresh ideas and pay
according quality of
ideas.
- Position opens when talented
students are detected.
- Change education models.
- Incorporate leading-edge
technologies from external
organizations in the schools.
•Educate teachers at
external organizations.
- Entrepreneurship as part of
education for students in all
levels.
- Majors, Masters and PhD
degrees also obtained from
companies and recognized
by schools.
- Universal education
beyond county, race,
culture, religion,
economy.

6. 6
Selection of Ideas
The most practical:
- Incorporate activities at school according real needs
of external organizations (employers).
The most disruptive:
- Needed skills implanted directly in student´s brain;
and then in a short period of time get an expert with
real training.

7. 7
My favorite (s):
- Work together (employers, government, society,
and schools) to change the curriculum of the
students according needs not just employers, but
also government, social demands and main word
trends.
- Majors, Masters and PhD degrees also obtained
from companies and recognized by schools. In this
case the core business of companies is not
education per se.
Selection of Ideas
(Cont.)