Customer Interviews #1

1. For an opportunity I decided to use the problem of focusing with distractions in todays society.

2. Everyone might have this unmet need, but specifically I’m targeting college kids who have to stay focused to get good grades.

3. After asking five potential customers about this opportunity, I think there is a real chance to build something off of this idea. So many people are unfocused in their day to day life. 

4. While interviewing people I didn’t know it was a little nerve racking but also a neat experience to get honest feedback from people about a potential opportunity that could help people if a solution can be found.

Week 4 Reading Reflection

1. The thing that stood out to me the most in this chapter was the “Most Common Idea Killers.” It’s just a short list of phrases that people say that kill ideas, and the reason why it was such a surprise to me is because I’ve literally heard every single one. From phrases like “where do you get these weird ideas?” to “I don’t see anything wrong with the way we’re doing it now.” It’s that type of thinking that kills creativity!

2. One thing in the chapter that confused me was the Critical Thinking Process chart. It’s five squares labeled creative process, incubation, ideas, evaluation and implementation, and knowledge accumulation. An arrow points from creative process to all of the squares and then they are all linked on the outside, and there isn’t much explanation about the chart to explain. 

3. One question I would ask the author is to explain the Critical Thinking Process Chart better. I also would ask him to elaborate more on table 5.4 that pertains to the two brain hemispheres.

4. I don’t disagree with anything in Chapter 5. Kuratko’s ideas on creativity and innovation are very unique and interesting and I don’t think there was anything wrong with the ideas displayed. 

Top 5 World Problems

Top 5 Problems:
1. Poverty
2. Terrorism
3. Water
4. Global Warming
5. Lack of education

Top 5 solutions:
1. Water
2. Lack of Education
3. Global Warming
4. Poverty
5. Terrorism

I selected poverty as my top problem from my list out of five because the majority of the world lives in poverty. Third world countries are living on pennies a day and thousands die from starvation. I feel like this is the biggest problem in the world

I selected that finding a solution to lack of water would be easiest out of the top 5 world problems. I feel that finding ways to desalinate ocean water at a mass scale wouldn't be that hard since we already know the technology. And the fact that the majority of the world is covered with salt water, we should never have a problem with running out. Also, we could supply countries that don't have clean water with this water.