15/01/19 - UNDERSTAND (III) - Problem statement (II) and World Café

Since we have not been able to finish the problem statement yesterday, this was the first task for today.

The CONSEQUENCES of the current situation resulting from the gap between ideal and reality are:

-        waste of time, limited travelling flexibility, distress, social exclusion lead to low usage

-        old technology and information

-        low profitability

A general consequence are the environmental impacts like global warming or air pollution, but this cannot be directly changed within this project.

A PROPOSAL how to fix the problem could be:

In order to provide the users environmental friendly transportation options with increased affordability, accessibility and availability and to improve the information systems (by e.g. Apps), innovative business models and cooperations with other companies shall be established.

In the second part of the session we did the so-called 'world cafe'. This was a very interesting and above all an effective method to collect all the questions to be asked to each stakeholder group in various rounds and in different groups. In total, the whole class was divided into five groups which were sitting at five different tables. In each round, the team had to move from table to table but one team member had to stay an additional round at the same table. This team member is then responsible for quickly explaining to the next group which questions and topics have already been covered, so that the new group does not waste too much time of the seven minutes and rather comes up with additional questions. This way we were able to collect much more ideas and questions than one group alone would have thought of. In the following, each group shall go over all the questions and select the ones they want to ask when doing the excursion to Langenau. This shall be prepared until Friday, where we will also think about the approach to be applied in Langenau (e.g. the interviews we want to conduct and the contact information we need).