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I wrote a brief article about a way to select an idea from an idea pool assuming that you produced enough ideas. It's at http://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-and-execution-magic-chart/ Now, how do you find new problems?
The first rule is (obviously) there are not rules. But you can improve your heuristics like using serendipity or strong market analysis. Problems are everywhere, so this are the kind of questions I ask myself searching for opportunities: - Integration: Does technology X connects with technology Y in a seamless way? What can I do achieve integration. A subset of the (X,Y) is {('.net', 'java'), ('web', 'desktop'), ('e-mail', 'crm'), ('e-mail attachments', 'dropbox'), ('google analytics', 'excel'), ('gdata', 'odata'), ('mobile', 'desktop'), ('thunderbird', 'outlook'), ('mobile phone', 'asterisk')} You can add a relation R, like how can I R=migrate from 'thunderbird' to 'outlook' ? - Extending Features: Can I open different gmail/twitter/etc accounts in different browser tabs? Does Salesforce has all the features needed? Does Kindle export notes? - Development libraries: There are easy to use libraries to do X in the technology Y? - Changing industries: Does industry X have a problem that was already solved in industry Y? - Futurism: What we will need in one year? and in ten years? For example, do I need a voice based web browsing to use while I am doing other things? (like Siri does with e-mail). How I can integrate the information from a lot of sources (G+, Twitter, Facebook, CRMs, etc). Will the torrent protocol will be the future for streaming? in that case how can I add dynamic advertisement to torrent streaming? new games for toddlers (like the AI toy), and Turing test for toddlers? |