Open discussion on the Identification and validation of unmet needs of people who suffer from homelessness.
I’d like to host an event on identifying and validating unmet needs of people who suffer from homelessness. I would like your help to open up a discussion on tools and techniques that can be used in this sector.
This project is at a very early stage, although I have discussed concepts with people who are homeless, I have yet to develop a Minimal Viable Product to test their uptake. The problems I am having are:
1. Identifying unmet needs that require little capital and result in scalable and sustainable products and services for people who are homeless.
2. Verifying the unmet needs.
3. Establishing techniques that allow accurate measuring and validating (innovation accounting) of Minimal Viable Products. I have identified that using a cohort analysis using the Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue metric would be best for this, however this have proven difficult because of the relatively small population size (approx. 10,000 homeless in total in Ireland) as well as the wide range of reasons why a person is homeless. Another difficulty is judging whether a person is truly homeless, on the verge of becoming homeless, or are people who suffer from none of the above but are taking advantage of stranger’s generosity.
I’d like your help to share your experiences and techniques on how you:
• Identified unmet needs
• How you verified these unmet needs. I.e. How did you prove that these needs were common across your industry and how you feel they could be applied to the homeless sector.
• How you measured and validated your ideas and the lessons you learned.
Proposed Structure of the session.
I’d like to structure the session by spending the first 5-10 minutes gathering everybody’s ideas, thoughts and experiences by asking them to write them down and share them on Post-It-Notes.
The final 15-20 minutes would be spent using the FishBowl discussion method described on the Leancamp site so people can share their ideas among the group and help generate more ideas and open up the discussion.
Mark murray
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