Identifying solutions
Bring together your understanding of the problem and insight from your stakeholders to start creating or finding solutions that will address the needs of the user. The more ideas you generate early on the better, so you can quickly iterate, refine your thinking and identify something both innovative and well thought through. We encourage you to think about how you can involve as many stakeholders and citizens in the process as possible. The people with the most power tend to make the decisions, and by using participatory methods and co-design we can begin to shift some of that power and give others a voice. This also leads to more democratic, innovative, and impactful solutions.
Co-design workshops
Develop solution ideas from diverse groups of stakeholders and citizens.
HOW:
- Schedule a workshop with your Local Action Group or a group of citizens
- Start by making sure everyone is clear what problem we are trying to solve (see Problem statement), sharing any key insight for those who may not already have been involved
- First help people warm up by generating as many ideas as possible (10×10 method)
- Invite participants to come up with 10 ideas in 10 minutes
- Discuss as a group which ones you prefer and why – make note of the key characteristics of ideas that stand out
- Then give participants more time to create a more mature solution idea (Concept Cards)
- Invite participants to flesh out the questions in this tool and encourage drawing!
- To read more about this method visit the Board of Innovation
READ MORE: Beyond Sticky Notes, What is co-design?
Effort – impact matrix
Prioritise ideas generated in co-design workshops or by the team
HOW:
- You can do this with the individuals in your workshop, or as a smaller core team
- Review the ideas that were generated and map them on the matrix – would it be easy to implement? How likely is it to have an impact on the problem?
- If more than one solution is in the bottom right square, discuss which one you’d like to take forward, or how to combine them
Tip: This matrix can be used for prioritisation
