How do you test and refine your problem statements and assumptions using experiments and feedback?

3 How to collect feedback?

To collect useful feedback, you should adhere to certain best practices. Firstly, you should ask focused and relevant questions that are related to your goal and experiment method. Additionally, it is important to seek feedback from diverse and unbiased sources so that you can gain different perspectives. Moreover, it is essential to treat your participants with courtesy and gratitude and respect their time and opinions. Lastly, acknowledge their feedback without arguing or defending your problem statement or assumption.

4 How to analyze feedback?

To effectively analyze feedback, it is necessary to follow a systematic process that includes organizing data, identifying patterns and insights, and drawing conclusions and recommendations. Data should be sorted and categorized according to the goal and experiment method, with visuals such as tables, charts, graphs, or diagrams used to summarize. Patterns and insights can then be identified by looking for common themes, trends, outliers, or anomalies in the data. Finally, conclusions and recommendations should be drawn from these patterns and insights to refine or reframe the problem statement or assumption.

5 How to refine and reframe?

To refine and reframe your problem statement or assumption, you need to follow a creative process. Firstly, evaluate your current statement or assumption to assess its essence, scope, relevance, realism, testability, and measurability. Secondly, generate alternatives by restating or rephrasing the problem statement or assumption in different ways and using different perspectives. Lastly, select the best option by comparing and contrasting your alternatives and using criteria such as clarity, specificity, novelty, or feasibility.

6 How to repeat and improve?

To repeat and improve your problem statement or assumption, you need to follow a cyclical process. This includes experimenting and gathering feedback with a refined or reframed problem statement or assumption. Then analyze and refine the data to look for new patterns, insights, conclusions, and recommendations. Finally, use the refined problem statement or assumption as the basis for a new reframing cycle. Generate new alternatives, select the best option, and test it again. Following this process will help you continuously test and refine your problem statements and assumptions, thus improving your creative problem solving skills for better outcomes.

7 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?