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When you're trying to solve a problem for someone, it helps a lot if you can empathize - even feel - the problem yourself. Because it's when you have a real sense of the problem, you release all those creative juices that allows you to not only look at the problem from different angles but… Continue reading Feel the problem
Pay day loans are one of the greatest scurges of modern day finance; overcharging poor people for access to quick and often necessary capital to get by from day-to-day. But is earnings-on-demand - live access to your pay irrespective of the monthly pay day at the end of the month - really the answer? While… Continue reading Solving pay-day-loans?
When you try to affect change and solve a problem in a new way, you need them to be ready to give up how they have done things in the past. Or get them interested in forming a new habit. For some things it's easier than with others. If you're just presenting a more efficient… Continue reading Igniting change
If you're stuck in whatever you're doing or trying to accomplish, look outside your team and get an outside view on what you're doing and where you should be taking things. True, the person you approach may not be a subject matter expert like yourself. But on the other hand the person is also not… Continue reading Get the outside view
Yesterday we spend in prototyping mode. While a super interesting project, we have been working on for some time was starting to take shape for the first early user testing, I put some of the final touches on a pilot for another upcoming project, we're testing out. This is always when things start to become… Continue reading Getting the verdict
If you are trying to solve a problem that your customers emphatize with but are NOT actively looking to solve right now, does that indicate that maybe the problem is not that big after all? Conventional wisdom will say that it is definitaly a possibility. But take a step back and consider another thing: When… Continue reading Problems persist
One thing the iQnite case competition on climate change has taught me is that there is a big difference between talking a problem up and the ability or desire to do anything about it. While we often hear and see young people on the street protesting against climate sinners and calling for action NOW!, I… Continue reading Screaming is not solving
One of the things I have found while working to create our case competition on climate change, iQnite, is that there is a big difference between outrage about something and passion for doing something about it. Just because you're outraged about something doesn't mean that you want to take real action towards doing something about… Continue reading Outrage versus passion