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Paul Sturrock [email protected] @PSturrock Problem Spotting

Bootstrap Business Seminar 1: Problem Spotting

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Paul [email protected]@PSturrock

Problem Spotting

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Cultivate Random 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

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It’s not about your technology

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Photo by Christopher Macsurak flickr.com

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“You're gonna have to serve somebody,Well, it may be the devil or it may be

the LordBut you're gonna

have to serve somebody”

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customer with a problem technology

engaged skilled

management

Value

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Wicked Problems

1. Multiple stakeholders with different views

2. Can’t be concretely defined

3. Constraint and resources change

4. No stopping rule

5. Problem is never definitively solved

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Albert Einstein

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”

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Interpretive Innovation

Lester, R.K. & Piore, M.J. (2006) Innovation: The Missing Dimension, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press

Analytic Innovation

Vague problem

Fuzzy goals

Unknown solution

Ongoing

Conversational

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Tell  me  a  story  about  one  of  them

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- John Maeda

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“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

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Photo Credit: www.flickr.com VinothChandar creativecommons.org

Look with Beginner’s Mind

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What’s your pencil?

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Cultivate Random 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

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-­‐Play  Constraint  Games-­‐What’s  broken?-­‐Look  for  pa:erns

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What’s the story?

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Strategy Canvas- Internet/Computing Devices

Kim & Mauborgne “Blue Ocean Strategy”20

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1

2

3

4

5

Price Weight Display Power Telephony

Laptops Smartphones

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Strategy Canvas- Internet/Computing Devices

Kim & Mauborgne “Blue Ocean Strategy”21

0

1

2

3

4

5

Price Weight Display Power Telephony

Laptops Smartphones Ipad

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Relate

Grow

Exist

Basic Human Needs

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Business Model - The Empathy MapDesigned for: Designed by:

�ƵƐƚŽŵĞƌ�WĞƌƐƉĞĐƟǀĞ͗

What does she

THINK and FEEL?what really countsmajor preoccupationsworries & aspirations

What does she

SEE?environmentfriendswhat the markets offers

What does she

HEAR?what friends saywhat boss sayswhat influences say

What does she

SAY and DO ?attitude in publicappearancebehavior towards others

GAIN“wants”/needs, measures of success, obstacles

PAINfears, frustrations, obstacles

Date:

/ŶƚĞƌĂƟŽŶ͗

Adapted from XPLANE. XPlane.comwww.XPLANE.com

Exercise: Describe your customer segment

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Design Brief

• What job are they trying to do?

• 5 Whys• How are they doing it

now?• What does “fixed” look

like? • What are the

boundaries?• What is the opportunity?• Story, Story,Story

http://www.flickr.com/photos/annagaycoan/

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Extreme Users

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One Tribe

- Same need- Same selection criteria- Same channels

image by Dylan Walters flickr.com

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- Simple- Unexpected- Concrete- Credible- Emotional- Story

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- Take the wickedness out of problems

- Cultivate Negative Capability

- Practice like an Artist

- Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible,

Emotional, Stories

Summary

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Thank You.@PSturrock