Research Guiding Questions

Research Guiding Questions/Prompts:

Make yourself an EXPERT on the problem you are trying to solve.

• Be able to define and describe the problem in detail.

• Know all the known causes of the problem.

• Know all the previous and current (attempts at) solutions to the problem.

• Know WHY the previous solutions failed.

• Know WHY the current solutions are not doing enough.

Do this by asking smart questions.

• Who benefits from the problem remaining a problem?

• Follow the money - what cost barriers exist to a solution?

• Follow the science - what practical factors are barriers to a solution?

• Who cares about the problem and why?

• Who doesn’t care about the problem and why?

Keep asking questions.