FINE-TUNE YOUR POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

You and your work group or project team have come up with many potential solutions to your innovation challenge. Use this guide to fine-tune them
so you can begin to make choices about which to pursue.

1. Gather all proposed 2. Group similar ideas. 3. Remove weaker ideas. 4. Organize the groups by
solutions your group As you connect related These will only distract you themes, such as:
has come up with in thoughts, even more and dilute your energy. They • Increase revenue
one place. interesting possibilities include ideas that are: • Reduce costs
You might use sticky notes may surface.
• Not a priority for • Create efficiencies
posted on a whiteboard. the organization
(If some team members are Next steps might include
• Not a priority for customers prioritizing your proposed
remote, you may want to
• Difficult to implement solutions or projects, doing
use a shared
virtual workspace.) additional research, or
designing ways to test your
potential solutions.

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