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Spotting Opportunities

Identify needs and opportunities to create social value.

Knowledge

  • Recognize basic social needs of a community
  • Outline the social value of spotted opportunities in a community
  • Have a theoretical basis on Self Determination Theory (SDT)
  • Explain different needs’ analysis strategies (needs’ assessment, blue ocean strategy, product opportunity gap)

Skills

  • Follow a needs’ analysis strategy (needs’ assessment, blue ocean strategy, product opportunity gap) to gather needs and gaps of a community
  • Detect appropriate solution to identify social needs of a community

Attitudes

  • Manage intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
  • Spot unsolved or unmet social needs of a community
  • Use digital tools to browse, search and filter data and information
  • Develop own needs’ analysis strategy

ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO IN THE CLASSROOM TO TEACH YOUR STUDENTS

Speed date

Spotting Opportunities Valuing ideas

45 mins

Challenge

SWOT/CAME

Self Awareness & Efficacy Spotting Opportunities

30 mins

Technique Analysis

Bad ideas

Spotting Opportunities Valuing ideas

30 mins

Discussion Game

Brain Storming

Creativity Spotting Opportunities Valuing ideas

45 mins

Technique

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