Potpourri
This is the innovation space in the basement of Walter library
What is the Toaster?
What MECE stands for.
What is Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive?
MESS
What are situations to manage, explore, scope, or solve
Empathize, define, ideate, build, test, and deliver are all steps of this solving problem approach.
What is design thinking?
What can run, but cannot walk?
Water (or a river)
This is the oldest building on campus
What is Eddy Hall?
Name the primary benefit of using logic/issue trees.
SWOT
What are Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
A guess of the potential cause or resolution of the issue.
What is a hypothesis?
This can travel around the world while staying in a corner.
What is a stamp?
This is the UMN slogan
What is mutually exclusive?
TOSCA
What are Trouble, Owner, Success Criteria, Constraints and Actors
The use of this sticky paper can be helpful when working in groups to build issue trees.
What are Post-It notes?
The University of Minnesota was founded in this year
What is 1851?
What is the consequence if your issue tree is not collectively exhaustive (you are missing parts of your issue tree)?
4Ps
What are Product, Price, Promotion, Place
These are two methods to get feedback
What are interviews and surveys? (discussions, prototype tests, etc)
This is lighter than a feather, but even the world's strongest person can't hold it much longer than a couple of minutes.
What is your breath?
This is the slogan of the Carlson School of Management
What is business as a force for good?
How would you break the category "age" into 3 MECE branches?
What is 0-35, 36-65, and 66+?
BIA
What is Business Innovation Academy?
Name 3 problem solving approaches we talked about this semester
What are: Bulletproof, Lean, Six Sigma, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Agile, TOSCA, Sprint