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When you start looking at problems in the world, one of the interesting indicators of a problem is to look at the number of people trying to solve problems within a sector outside of the established system. Personally, I find it mindblowing to read that a survey done across a number of countries from 2010-2015… Continue reading Fixing from the outside
It's been a month since I joined inQvation Studio, and what a month it has been; fastpaced, fun and with a lot of excitement about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. I have spent the month catching up on all the thinking that has gone into building the Studio idea. Furthermore I have been… Continue reading Progress report – May 2019
During the years I have met many people who have been incredibly frustrated trying to make good use of Business Model Canvas. They often follow a traditional hype cycle, where they start up enthusiastically and full of energy and purpose only to burn out after a week or two with little progress. While it is… Continue reading Show it, don’t tell it
Launching an entirely new research area into machine behaviour as suggested by MIT Media Lab seems like an obvious good idea. Because the more we leave to machines, the better we need to understand the decisions those machines make, the rationale behind them and the impact they will have on our outcomes. Forcing ourselves to… Continue reading Understand the machine
Countless times when people talk about doing an MVP, what they are really deep down looking to do is something that resembles the finished product. Or at the very least should be used as a quite feature heavy and robust stepping stone towards the finished product. It is a misconception though. MVPs in its original… Continue reading Remember the MVP?
The more you think you know about something, the more you should push yourself to look under the hood. There is always something there that annoys your view of the problem. Something that doesn't fit. But that something adds valuable perspective to what you're working on, and more often than not it can be the… Continue reading Always look under the hood
Should the person who comes up with an idea also be the one who straight out of the blocks evaluate its desirability, feasibility and viability? Probably not due to the obvious risk of bias. It is also why we have some tools for ideation and another set of tools for assessment and validation. The really… Continue reading Don’t undersell your idea
Just because ideas can be hard to turn into something concrete, it doesn't mean you should stop having them. There always should be - and there always is - room for the bright idea. What you could do however is to stop thinking about the quantity of ideas you could have and focus all your… Continue reading Focus on outcomes