Prioritise ideas and solutions to develop

While you may like all the ideas you came up with, you need to narrow down and prioritise ideas/solutions to take through and develop further. There is no perfect number of ideas to take through to development. It will depend on your situation, resources, time etc.

You can prioritise using different methods. For example, you may want to develop two ideas – one that is most likely to succeed and one that excites you. It is always important to get buy-in from within your sport, so consider different viewpoints and perspectives on the ideas to develop further.

All the ideas you came up with won’t be lost, you can always loop back and develop others as needed.

Questions to ask

1. What are some of the common themes of our ideas?​
2. Which ones excite us and which ones have the highest chance of success?​
3. Which ones best address the problem we are trying to solve? ​
4. Which ideas do different stakeholders think should be developed?​
5. Which do we want to develop out further?

Methods to consider for this action

• Techniques such as dot voting allow people to express their views without succumbing to groupthink. You can use different colours to indicate different idea categories (e.g. what excites us, what has a high likelihood of success).
• If you still need to flesh out your prioritised ideas, a tool such as an idea canvas may help.

Output

Prioritised solutions to develop into a draft product concept

Design-Canvas.pdf