E OBJ 2.02 Vocab

Environmental scanning

• Collecting information about the environment surrounding your business

• A business’s external, uncontrollable surroundings; consists of elements such as demographics, society and culture, the economy, competition, government, and technology

• Analyze your observations and synthesise them in order to define the core problems

• Surroundings

External environment

• A business’s external, uncontrollable surroundings; consists of elements such as demographics, society and culture, the economy, competition, government, and technology

• A business’s internal, controllable surroundings; consists of elements such as finances, personnel, research and development, production, and marketing

• Collecting information about the environment surrounding your business

• The general direction in which people or events are moving

Internal environment

• Surroundings

• thinking outside the box" to identify new solutions to the problem statement

• A business’s external, uncontrollable surroundings; consists of elements such as demographics, society and culture, the economy, competition, government, and technology

• A business’s internal, controllable surroundings; consists of elements such as finances, personnel, research and development, production, and marketing

Defining

• producing a number of inexpensive, scaled down versions of the product

• thinking outside the box" to identify new solutions to the problem statement

• The first stage of the Design Thinking process; gain an emphatic understanding of the problem you are trying to solve

• analyze your observations and synthesise them in order to define the core problems

Empathizing

• The first stage of the Design Thinking process; gain an emphatic understanding of the problem you are trying to solve

• alterations and refinements are made in order to rule out problem solutions and derive as deep an understanding of the product and its users as possible.

• producing a number of inexpensive, scaled down versions of the product

• thinking outside the box" to identify new solutions to the problem statement

Ideating

• thinking outside the box" to identify new solutions to the problem statement

• producing a number of inexpensive, scaled down versions of the product

• alterations and refinements are made in order to rule out problem solutions and derive as deep an understanding of the product and its users as possible.

• The first stage of the Design Thinking process; gain an emphatic understanding of the problem you are trying to solve

Prototyping

• producing a number of inexpensive, scaled down versions of the product

• alterations and refinements are made in order to rule out problem solutions and derive as deep an understanding of the product and its users as possible.

• analyze your observations and synthesise them in order to define the core problems

• thinking outside the box" to identify new solutions to the problem statement

Testing

• alterations and refinements are made in order to rule out problem solutions and derive as deep an understanding of the product and its users as possible.

• producing a number of inexpensive, scaled down versions of the product

• thinking outside the box" to identify new solutions to the problem statement

• The first stage of the Design Thinking process; gain an emphatic understanding of the problem you are trying to solve