How to's
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What is a how to?
How to's (or H2 in short) are problem statements written in the form of How to…. Examples are: How to carry luggage in the airport? How to transport deep frozen food in a shop? How to supply people with beverages on a festival?
The How to.. way of phrasing is dynamic and inviting. The idea is to create a wide variety of problem descriptions. In this way different perspectives are briefly shown, and the problem is described from these different points of view. There are rules in force such as postpone judgment, associate on the ideas of others and strive for quantity rather than quality. The how to's are open questions that stimulate one's creativity almost immediately. The various how to questions give a comprehensive overview of the problem that one is working with.
When can you use a how to?
How to's are most helpful at the start of idea generation. With how to's the problem is reformulated in many different ways and ideas come up easily.
How to generate how to's?
Starting points
The starting point is the result of the problem analysis stage, often a short description of the problem or a problem statement.
Expected outcome
The outcome of the how to's are various problem reformulations in the form of how to's. A benefit of this method is that the problem reformulations reflect different points of view towards the problem.
Possible procedure
- Provide a short description of the problem and invite the group to name all important stakeholders and aspects of the problem (you could use a mind map for this).
- Invite the group to name as many how to's as possible seen from the different points of views (stakeholders) and seen from the different aspects. You can use a flip over to write down the how to's or post-its.
- Evaluate the most important common elements of the how to's.
- Select a number of how to's that cover the different points of view.
- Formulate a one single concrete target (e.g. one final how to to continue with).
Literature
Tassoul, M. (2006) Creative Facilitation: a Delft Approach, VSSD, Delft.
