MGMT3004 Wk3 230308pm
MGMT3004 Wk3 230308pm
MGMT3004 Wk3 230308pm
Dr Philip Ely
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Acknowledgement to Country
Week 3: Opportunity Identification and the Creative
Pursuit of Ideas
(Chapter 5 of Frederick et al, 2019)
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What is creativity?
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https://www.lifehack.org/512552/can-you-see-the-man-in-the-coffee-beans-most-people-cant
True opportunity spotters identify
opportunities laterally (through intuition
LATERAL OR and gut feeling), but they analyse them
VERTICAL? vertically (through testing and
commercialisation processes).
A Child’s
Comprehend
Approach: Why
the Problem
or Why Not
THE BOX!
Forget
Reframe the
Contemporary
Concepts
Solutions
LEFT or RIGHT?
Either/Or:
black or white?
Stereotyping
IDENTIFYING
OPPORTUNITIES
30 Years of Research
Culture that contains symbolic
rules
Person who brings novelty
Field of experts
Optimism Bias
Planning Fallacy
PITFALLS
LEGAL/REGULATORY LACK OF EXPERTISE
SOURCES of OPPORTUNITY
• Societal
•
Trend •
Marketplace
Technology
s •
•
Economic
Political
• Environmental
SOURCES of OPPORTUNITY
MAPPING A VALUE PROPOSITION
Pains + Features = Value Proposition
Explicit Needs
Implicit Needs
REALISING
OUR VALUE
• Convenience/Performance
• Cost/Price
• Design/Risk
SOURCES OF
• Experience
VALUE
• New Market
• Personalisation
• Social Status
A VALUE …a simple way to understand your
PROPOSITION customers’ pains and needs, and to
CANVAS design products that they actually want.
Sketchnoting
https://youtu.be/39Xq4tSQ31A
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