Innovation Teams

Discussion Questions: What's Expected at the Start?

• What does your idea look like at the start? A product? a set technology? a market? a user need?
  • How rigid is that starting point? The more rigid, the higher the risk.
  • Treat it as a hunch: a promising starting point (not a set destination), enticing you to make things more tangible to explore an opportunity.    
• How much can you possibly know about an unsolved problem before you even start solving?
  • You need to make some assumptions to start.
  • However, assumptions that go unchecked create the illusion of certainty and conceal risks.
  • How much risk are you taking by setting in stone some aspects of your idea at the start?