needs and local context Open Available anywhere, anytime and always on Changing expectations of products and services Transparent Built on trust and consent Faster Moving towards instantaneous Smart Making use of smart technologies and AI Joined-up Interactions that meaningfully connect online and offline Real-time Use of data to shape service experiences and interactions Automated Efficiency designed to enable human-interactions
teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. So I said, okay, let’s look at the first principles. What is a rocket made of? Aerospace grade aluminium alloys, plus some titanium, copper and carbon fibre. Then I asked, what is the value of those materials on the commodity market? It turned out that the material cost of a rocket was around 2% of the typical price – which is a crazy ratio for a large mechanical product.” – Elon Musk
motivation behind any work that is being proposed, or has been started. Who are our users? Being able to describe who we think will need to use a service or solution. What outcome will users get from this service? Being able to describe why we think people will use a service or solution. What outcome are we looking for? Explaining the problem from the perspective of our organisation, and any operational constraints and problems to solve internally. What are our key metrics? Explaining how we intend to measure progress against these outcomes as we deliver the work. Framing the problem
about the future, and about what kind of future we might create, the future that is still possible to create. Not a perfect, utopian future, but a future that recognises the limits imposed by circumstances as opportunities, and responds with imagination and care, creating a future where things turn out okay. “
don’t require tearing down existing solutions to create new ones. Often, it’s just applying a new lens to the resources that already exist, and forming new combinations of existing solutions. It starts by employing new perspectives to reframe the problems we aim to solve.” – Kat Holmes, Mismatch
He survived for 20 years and developed a method of cutting out shapes from coloured paper and having people stick them on large wall mounted sheets of paper for him.”