We facilitated a process of loosely structured innovation: reframing the challenge, and then filling whiteboards and walls full of post-it notes with hundreds of potential solutions.
Reframe: Split participants into small groups to disassemble and reframe the challenge presented by the client.
Through iterative product development, student teams may pivot from an original idea to best address the challenge, or even reframe the challenge itself.
To overcome the skepticism of many industry leaders, DMI reframed the challenge by helping dairy farmers see that sustainability had long been a core value of the industry: In maintaining their family farms on the same land for generations, farmers had developed important capabilities that were directly relevant to the challenges ahead.
He reframed the challenge away from fixing a past problem and toward differentiating the product and the company for the future.
Troubling as the realities and projections may be, as leaders in business and government search for ways to foster women's economic empowerment, we encourage them to reframe the challenge as an opportunity rather than a threat, looking at the positive impact that economically empowered women can have on society and the economy.
Using the case of maize production in Kenya, this study reframes the challenge of smallholder commercialization in the context of staple food crop production and individual farm-level decision-making by a heterogeneous population of smallholder farmers.
Anderson, K. & Bows, A. Reframing the climate change challenge in light of post-2000 emission trends.
More importantly, these interactions with the best human drivers have helped us to reframe the control challenges associated with racing in a way that opens up new possibilities for safety on the road.
"Our real success has been to reframe the argument – challenging a narrative beloved of the Left, which focuses so exclusively on how much is being spent on welfare that it risks overlooking the real question... that it is not about how much goes into the benefit system, but what difference it makes to people at the other end".
