bootstrap business seminar 1: finding what's broken 2015
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Finding Problems@PSturrock
Cultivate Curiosity➡Get your head out of your screen➡Change your routine➡Turn up!➡Carry your pencil➡Make lists➡Take Pictures➡Sketch➡Eavesdrop➡Ask for stories
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd
spend 55 minutes thinking
about the problem and
5 minutes thinking about
solutions.”
What is a good problem?
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters”- Peter Thiel
Wicked Problems
1. Multiple stakeholders: can’t be clearly defined.
2. Multidimensional
3. No boundaries
4. Any solution is partial and temporary
GOOD PROBLEMS1.Important2.Protagonist3.Boundaries4.Endpoint5.Actionable
Interpretive Innovation
Lester, R.K. & Piore, M.J. (2006) Innovation: The Missing Dimension, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press
Analytic Innovation
Vague problemFuzzy goalsUnknown solutionOngoingConversational
Where do I find a good problem?
THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE
How do I find a good problem?
Cultivate Curiosity➡Get your head out of your screen➡Change your routine➡Turn up!➡Carry your pencil➡Make lists➡Take Pictures➡Sketch➡Eavesdrop➡Ask for stories
Photo Credit: www.flickr.com VinothChandar creativecommons.org
Look with Beginner’s Mind
“at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
John Keats
Negative Capability
Epistemic Curiosity
GE T O U T O F T HE BU I L D ING !
from Alan Klements
GOOD PROBLEMS1.Important2.Protagonist3.Boundaries4.Endpoint5.Actionable
Questions?
Thank You@PSturrock