Your Journey, Team & Dream:
- Define your significant problem
- Data and design-driven breakthrough thinking
- Based on research evidence
- Build elegant business solutions
- Demonstrate how 10x outcomes are achieved
- Solving significant financial / business problems
- Minimal waste of effort and expense by five to ten years.
Challenge Description
Goal to develop a business solution that addresses one or a mix of these opportunities:
- Predicting the Unknown Future
- Doing Well by Doing Good
- Balancing the Human-Machine Act
Tools:
- Futures Thinking
- Design Thinking
- Business Thinking
PROCESS AND QUESTIONS:
1. Explore Problems Worth Solving
- How can you mobilize the given challenge scoping?
- What problems, trends, signals, and patterns do you see?
- Who are the stakeholders facing or working on solutions?
- What are your critical hypotheses for each problem?
- What are the critical ingredients for drawing the initial Lean Canvas?
2. Define Future Scenarios & Options
- Imagine the “preferable” future(s) for solving the problem
- What do we know and imagine about future trends?
- What will be the significant changes?
- How will the solution be structured?
- What is the role of regulation and emerging technology, and other factors?
3. Prototyping Solutions & Deep Data Dive
- What do we know about the problem area now and in the next decade?
- Who are the stakeholders?
- Where does this play out?
- How does it do it?
- Impact of regulation, technology, or other influental factors?
- How has the area evolved to date?
- How can you test your assumptions with protyping and field studies?
4. Future Solutions: Validate or Pivot
- Radically envision the most likely future(s): think outside the evident
- How will your problem evolve and solution cope with the future in mind?
- What ideas emerge when you go beyond? How can you enhance your proposal?
- What are the Financial models, Valuation & Metrics That Matter?
- How can you test your assumptions by convincing executive stakeholders?
