Exploring the problem space: a guide to building the right solution
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Exploring the problem space: a guide to building the right solution
- Discover, describe and define: In order to create effective solutions, we need to have a deep understanding of what is going on.
- Create meaningful change: In systems thinking lingo, you might call this an intervention.
- Measure: Continually learn from and adapt the system
Boxes and Arrows • Activating Change: A Designer’s Guide to Systems Thinking - Boxes and Arrows
Mo Shafieeha added
Problems are typically richer than our preconceived notions about how to solve them. We can learn this the hard way, by failing and then failing again but failing better. But there are often shortcuts to be found if you are willing to spend more time mapping the landscape.
Henrik Karlsson • Being Patient With Problems
What I've come to recognise as core to my practice is the challenge of taking an extraordinarily complex, integrated, incomplete problem and wrapping my arms around it conceptually in a way that helps and empowers practitioners to actually do things about it.
Luke Craven • #29: On boundary objects
Adam Zeiner added
while it has roots in both content and process, it is enhanced by new technologies that enable dynamic, adaptive workflows to inform the design of real-world, people-oriented solutions.
Keith D. Swenson • Mastering the Unpredictable: How Adaptive Case Management Will Revolutionize the Way That Knowledge Workers Get Things Done
One of the best ways to build the confidence to get started and enter the exploratory process of finding a solution is to set as well-defined a search space as you can: outline the "hard edges". Setting this defined space gives you constraints to comfortably work within, almost like a cozy room with padded walls where we've got the freedom to tinke... See more
Coleman McCormick • To Know What to Build, Start Building
Peter Hagen added
One shift that can help us all is to change our minds about planning. Like search, planning is a literacy that’s not taught in school, and yet it’s a key to success in life and work. We plan events, trips, families, sites, systems, companies, and cities. We do it all the time but make the same mistakes. First, we procrastinate. We fear complexity,
... See morePeter Morville • Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
fnep added
Notice that we’re not defining technology as a solution to a problem, but rather a path to an end. Though many technologists see their work as “problem-solving”, problems are in the eye of the beholder; one first has to make decisions about what constitutes a problem before making decisions to solve it in a particular way. That decision-making proc... See more
Saffron Huang • What is Technology? — Letters to a Young Technologist
Tanuj added
when embarking on a somewhat larger effort, there may in fact be multiple reasons, several customer problems to be solved, or business objectives to be tackled.