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The Challenge Brief will be the basis for all your work in the following stages. As such, you should outline any key risks regarding the problem, and assumptions you may have made, and finally any outstanding questions you have. See Manage risk...
In your project team review each aspect of the Problem Statement as it stands: how you have articulated and framed the problem, where it occurs, and who it affects. Discuss and decide on any changes that are required, based on the information...
Exploring the differences between what is urgent and what is important to the affected community and your organisation can be an eye-opening experience. The Urgent vs Important exercise helps to work this out. Download the template. First, map...
Exploring the size of the problem at the local and global level can help you identify how much energy and effort may be required, and how far the impact of a solution could go. Download the template. The vertical axis of the graph represents the...
Imagine that you have to persuade your manager to give you the time and space to work on the issue you’ve uncovered, or that you have to persuade a donor to fund your project. What would you say? One way to think about this is to make the case...
You now have a rich collection of information on context, past efforts or existing services, and the problem at hand. But here we need to move from the what (which is largely a function of exploratory and evaluative analysis) to the why (a...
Equipped with the insights from the ‘Prioritising information and spotting patterns‘ exercise, you and your team can start to develop causal explanations for the problems you are trying to solve:What are the direct and underlying symptoms...
You now have a rich collection of exploratory and evaluative data on key areas such as context, past efforts or existing services, and the challenge. Working independently or with your team, take 30–60 minutes to go through your notes,...
Go back to your initial Knowledge Areas map. You should now be able to cluster the insights you have developed in the newspaper headlines exercise and be able to sort them into each of the areas: Problem, Context, and Past Efforts. There may be...
First, drawing from the activity above, you’ll need to go out and collect relevant studies, reports, or other materials. You can carry out open-source research on the web, by using a search engine (like Google) to query a set of key search...