Explaining IdeaGens
| Question | Explanation |
|---|---|
| What is IdeaGens? | IdeaGens is a digital platform designed to help organizations and individuals understand and solve complex problems through structured analysis and ideation. |
| Who can benefit from IdeaGens? | Businesses, non-profits, and government agencies facing challenging issues can benefit from IdeaGens' comprehensive approach to problem-solving. |
| What does IdeaGens offer? | IdeaGens offers multiple tools, e.g., root cause analysis, stakeholder mapping, goal setting, strategy planning, and outcome tracking. |
| How does IdeaGens support problem-solving? | It enables multiple ways to deep analysis, e.g., creative ideation and effective decision-making through qualitative insights and intuitive workflows. |
| What makes IdeaGens unique? | IdeaGens combines qualitative insights with structured workflows, providing a unique solution for navigating complex scenarios and implementing lasting strategies. |
| What is IdeaGens methodology in Phases? | It uses the following three phases: 1. Understanding Phase, 2. Solution Phase, and 3. Implementation Phase. |
| What is IdeaGens methodology in Steps? | It uses the following six steps: 1. Initial Analysis, 2. Cause & Effect Analysis, 3. Ideation, 4. Decision Analysis, 5. Unintended Analysis, and 6. Implementation Analysis. |
| Aspect | Business Transformation | Business Reinvention |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Improve and enhance the existing business model and processes | Redefine the business, often to explore new markets or opportunities |
| Scope | Operational changes such as digitization and restructuring | Comprehensive overhaul of the business model, identity, and value |
| Focus | Efficiency, cost reduction, and competitive edge | Innovation, differentiation, and creating new value sources |
| Drivers | Need to optimize or improve existing structures | Need to survive, disrupt, or adapt to a radically changing landscape |
| Degree of Change | Significant changes within existing frameworks | Fundamental shift, often involving a new business model or identity |
| Outcome | Enhances the business's current trajectory | Establishes a new trajectory or redefines the business entirely |
| Examples | Implementing ERP systems, shifting to customer-centric models | Shifting from products to services, adopting digital subscription models |
Complexity Assessment for three types of Problems
IdeaGens is focussed on Complex Problems
Simple problems can be easily defined, understood, and solved.
They typically have a clear cause and effect relationship and can be resolved with straightforward, well-established methods or techniques.
Problem: Car does not start
Analysis: Battery discharged, out of fuel, etc.
Complicated problems are technical. They have a straight-line, step-by-step solution and tend to be predictable.
Techniques like Six Sigma and process/product improvements are helpful.
Problem: Manufacturing of new car model
Analysis: Manufacturing methods, Quality Control, etc.
Complex problems are those that have multiple interconnected elements or factors, making them difficult to understand, analyze, or solve.
They often involve high levels of uncertainty, ambiguity, and unpredictability, and can have far-reaching consequences that affect multiple domains
IdeaGens.Com specializes in complex problems, requiring creativity and collaboration.
Problem: Introducing a new car brand/model
Analysis: PESTLE, Five Forces, SWOT, etc.
Complexity Assessment Form
For Business, we have ten questions, five for internal and five for external factors.
The output includes whether the problem is simple, complicated, or complex and lists up to 30 frameworks for solving it.
