Assessment: Should We Pursue This New Project?

  1. Is the project led by a small, focused team that has relevant experience and is mentally prepared to tackle common innovation challenges, such as rapid changes in strategic direction and significant resource constraints?
  2. Has the team lived with, shopped alongside, worked next to, or otherwise invested enough time with prospective customers to develop an empathetic understanding of them?
  3. In considering new ways to serve these

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Reviewing Project Performance

For each “bad” action, ask the team:

  • What choices could we have made to avoid the bad action?
  • What choices did we make that should have been avoided?
  • What misinterpretations of events, motivations, and actions did we make that led to the bad action?
  • What were the correct interpretations?
  • What do all these imply about what we should and shouldn´t do going forward?

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