Last weeks theme was different from the previous themes in the way that there were no seminar discussing the topic, instead we had two lectures. Unfortunately i could not attend the first lecture held by Eva-Lotta Sallnäs, however i did attend the lecture held by Haibo Li covering the procces of idea to product. The lecture had a very good structure and covered five main topics:
1. How to come up with an idea?
- Re-state the problem
2. How to filter an idea?
- Business mind
3. How to validate an idea?
- Proof of concept
4. How to evaluate an idea?
- Business mind
5. How to communicate an idea?
- Elevator pitch
What i feel was the most central part in this lecture was about how to define a problem. According to Haibo many researchers today often locked in their own way of approaching a problem. The important part when solving a problem is not only to think in terms of providing a solution, but rather to first think really hard about what consitutes the problem and how to define it in the best way. This is something that I can relate to after studying for over three years at KTH. Often i have worked really hard solving different problems because of the fact that I had not defined the problem properly in the first place. Rather than spending 10% defining a problem and 90% solving the problem, perhaps it would be faster and easier if you spend 90% defining the problem and 10% solving the problem. During this course I have read alot of different research papers and often thought that the papers that got an advanced approach and solution often are the better ones. This might be the case, or not. Perhaps some researchers spend little time on defining what their problem really is and therefore end up with a advanced and complicated solution. In the future i will try to spend as much time as possible defining the problem when encountered by one instead on trying to solve it ASAP.
Good reflection.
SvaraRaderaLeif