In this lesson, discover a comprehensive 7-step workshop designed to help you and your team generate innovative ideas effectively. This process emphasizes the importance of diverse teams, framing problems as design challenges, and testing concepts through prototypes, ensuring your solutions are desirable, feasible, and impactful.
🎯 Learning Objectives
• Assemble a diverse team for collaborative idea generation.
• Transform a problem statement into a clear design question.
• Apply effective brainstorming techniques to produce a wide range of ideas.
• Utilize key criteria (desirability, feasibility, viability, impact, and personal passion) to select the most promising ideas.
• Create prototypes to make ideas tangible for testing with end users.
📚 About the Course
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create real change? You don’t have to start your own organization to make a difference in the world. Everyone can learn the social entrepreneurship mindset and skillset to build social impact. In this course, you will immerse yourself in a social or environmental challenge you want to tackle. You’ll start by researching your topic of choice, talking to people, and ideating a potential solution that you can contribute. Then, you’ll build a business model around that solution, understanding concepts like measuring social change, ensuring financial viability, funding and pitching.
This course is a safe space to experiment and explore. You’ll be guided by a ten stage framework to help structure your journey. Along the way, you’ll hear from social entrepreneurs around the world through case studies and campus conversations. These include Yale alumni, members of the New Haven community, and global changemakers. Everyone is welcome to join this course! You can apply your lived, learned, or professional experience to discover how you’re going to make a difference.
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