1. 2nd Incubator Residential
Scenarios Workshop
Paris, September 30, 2014

2. http://goo.gl/TA3CnO

3. Aims of this workshop
Explore a challenging domain in depth:
● Understand the underlying forces
● Identify the main actors
● Characterise their existing practices
● Consider viable innovations to better
address the concerns of various
stakeholders.

4. The setting
● Work in groups
● use paper /
popplet.com
● Share with
other groups.

5. The Actors
Subject Experts
Familiar with the
context, stakeholders,
needs, barriers
Innovators
Have the will and the
know-how to bring about
change
Facilitators
Manage exchange of
knowledge between
others

6. Agenda
● Identifying the actors
Naming & characterising the main roles / participants / stakeholders.
● Mapping the forces
Describing actors’ intentions, factors that influence them, links between them.
● Describing current practices
how do the actors currently operate to achieve their goals?
● Spotting the gaps
where are the tensions between forces? What intentions are not fulfilled?
● Exploring alternatives
how could existing practices be improved?

7. Step 1: Set the Scene
-
Draw Your Context!
● Use paper & markers /
http://popplet.com / tool of your
choice
● Create a sketch / cartoon /
collage that captures the
essence of your problem domain
(classroom / school / Corporate HR dept.)
Chan Hiu Ching, China
fukuoka.unhabitat.org/gallery/art_2008
10 Minutes

8. Step 2: Name Your Actors
Jo, 42, Female
EdTech
Entrepreneur
Lives in Lyon
3 Kids,
MSc in CS
Bo, 51, Male
Primary
Teacher
Lives in Riems
BA in History,
likes surfing
André, 37,
Male
Local
authority
Head of
Education

9. Step 2: List the Forces
Jo
EdTech
Entrepreneur
Bo
Primary
Teacher
André
Head of
Education
Desires
Assets /
advantages
Desires
Desires
Assets /
advantages
Assets /
advantages
Barrier
s
Barrier
s
Barrier
s

10. Step 2: Maps the Interactions

11. Step 3: Identify a Challenge
● Unfulfilled desire
● Tension between
forces
● Something that can
be done better

12. Step 4: Describe Current
Practices

13. And now..
● Propose new practices, based on your
product / concepts.
● Discuss, Review & Critique these
practices:
o what are the risks & opportunities?
o what are the costs?
o what are the side effects?

14. Step 1: Storyboard
OEC Teams draw a storyboard of a new /
revised practice, which makes use of their
product, to resolve a challenge in the
problem domain.

15. Step 2: Critique
● Subject experts review the storyboards,
note their potentials and challenges,
suggest modifications.

16. Discussion
• What have we learned?
• What surprised us?
• What are the big questions that we take
with us?