Potpourri
I Love Issue Trees
Acronyms
Prob Solving 2.0
Riddles
100

This is the innovation space in the basement of Walter library

What is the Toaster?

100

What MECE stands for.

What is Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive?

100

MESS

What are situations to manage, explore, scope, or solve

100

Empathize, define, ideate, build, test, and deliver are all steps of this solving problem approach. 

What is design thinking?

100

What can run, but cannot walk?

Water (or a river)

200

This is the oldest building on campus

What is Eddy Hall?

200

Name the primary benefit of using logic/issue trees.

What is helps us break down a problem into component parts to see potential pathways to solve? 
200

SWOT

What are Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

200

A guess of the potential cause or resolution of the issue. 

What is a hypothesis? 

200

This can travel around the world while staying in a corner.

What is a stamp?

300

This is the UMN slogan

What is Ski-U-Mah?
300
The term we use when branches of our issue tree do not overlap.

What is mutually exclusive? 

300

TOSCA

What are Trouble, Owner, Success Criteria, Constraints and Actors

300

The use of this sticky paper can be helpful when working in groups to build issue trees. 

What are Post-It notes?

300
This lives if you feed it, but dies if you give it a drink.
What is a fire?
400

The University of Minnesota was founded in this year

What is 1851?

400

What is the consequence if your issue tree is not collectively exhaustive (you are missing parts of your issue tree)?

What is you may miss the solution to your problem?
400

4Ps

What are Product, Price, Promotion, Place

400

These are two methods to get feedback

What are interviews and surveys? (discussions, prototype tests, etc)

400

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?

500

This is the slogan of the Carlson School of Management

What is business as a force for good?

500

How would you break the category "age" into 3 MECE branches?

What is 0-35, 36-65, and 66+?

500

BIA

What is Business Innovation Academy?

500

Name 3 problem solving approaches we talked about this semester

What are: Bulletproof, Lean, Six Sigma, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Agile, TOSCA, Sprint

500
This is why a person living in the US cannot be buried in Canada.
What is you can't bury a living person.