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Known Unknowns

After completing the Unknown Knowns exercise, take down the sticky notes with questions on them and place them in their groups on another Knowledge Map under relevant Knowledge Area headings (problem, context, and past and current efforts). Give...

Unknown Knowns

First, drawing from your new understanding of the three Knowledge Areas (problem; context; past and current efforts) and how to formulate exploratory and evaluative research questions, independently write down a list of research questions that...

Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas

The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas is a tool designed to help groups to identify the dominant logic in their industry or sector (the ‘way things are done’), and then think through how it might be challenged. It has been said that despite changes...

PESTLE Analysis

PESTLE analysis is the analysis of trends and factors that can affect the context in which humanitarian action is carried out and/or your organisation as a whole. It requires the user to look at six different domains: political, economic, social,...

Scenario Planning

Scenario planning is not about predicting the future, it is about understanding possible and plausible futures and what their implications might be for a given context or sector and organisations working within it. Scenario planning can be used...

Target Group

Nesta’s DIY Toolkit provides an excellent activity and template for better understanding and defining those who you intend to reach with potential solutions. According to the DIY toolkit, “Target Group is probably best used when you are...

Personas

Nesta’s DIY Toolkit also provides a Personas template to help visually represent key characteristics of the particular groups you intend to reach. According to the DIY Toolkit, this task is intended “to compile a portrait of a typical person...

Jobs to be Done (Value Proposition Canvas)

This tool is based on the idea that people don’t just ‘buy’ products and services, but that they are looking for something to do a particular ‘job’ for them. This change in perspective is intended to make you focus less on the product...