In todays world where speed is king you have to organize in new ways. Too many disciplines focus on completeness of information for solid decision-making.
Chris Conley from Institute of Design did a presentation on exactly that topic last spring linking Design and Innovation.
One of his conclusions was – “Generating early possibilities drives projects foreward”.
I had hoped for a more updated weblog from Chris, he promised me few weeks ago 
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Some more info on this topic would be interesting… “Generating early possibilities drives projects foreward”. What does this really mean? How are the early possibilities generated, and how does Conley mean that the search for complete information restrain theese early possibilities? Get me right on this one, I’m asking out of sincere interest.
I know you are - no sweat.
I’m not a strictly method-guy, but as I understand his thoughts he tries to broarden up in the earlier phases. Its more like an 360 degrees approach. How he do is, I dont know - but why dont we ask him?
I’ll send him an email and hopefully he will respond - okay?
Niklas what thoughts do you have on this specific issue - any perspectives?
Best Regards
Hans Henrik
Well, on one hand it’s always a question of how great the bunch of information/input is to bee before kicking the idea phase in to action… i.e. determinig the extent of the design reasearch or analysis.
On the other hand it’s the customers expectations on what is to be delivered, and how “open” the specifications of the end-result is allowed to be.
I guess, from quickly scanning the PDF from Conely’s presenation (wish I missed at my first visit to this post), that it’s the latter question that is the subjective of discussion… and how to get a customer conviced of a fantasic result and thus willing to be a rent-payer, without seeing what he is buying is a topics that’s interesting for the company selling design or innovation… e.g. Transformer.
/niklas