Objective Finding (OF)
Identify the goal, wish, or challenge upon which you want to work.
Bottom line: When finished with this step, your team will have a goal/wish/challenge for which it will seek a solution.
Diverge
Converge
Identify “hotspots,” expressed as a list of “In What Ways Might . . .” (IWWMs) statements. Start from your list of goal/wish ideas.
Draw out ideas that seem intriguing or interesting (regardless of viability) by expressing them as IWWM statements.
Use a storyboard to sort into clusters of related ideas, with each cluster being a “hotspot.”
Recognize the “hotspots” that mean something to your team. Do they have any unusual consequences or implications?
After considering these questions, write your team’s overall goal or wish in ...