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Assessment Tasks

Design Thinking for Business 1/2020

 Get Familiar with Design Thinking Prepare a problem statement
Use the template/exemplar or create your own
Concepts mindmap / affinity diagram. Think about who Record your insights
Read materials in Module 1.
Check the Rubric
the key stakeholders are. Examine the issues. Practice reflection –
Download the Template/Exemplar (Click here for guidance & video support) Click here for guidance

Get familiar with Canvas; Learn how to use the

library; Read the materials
Get Started Explore Canvas
1

Traditional Research Create a Journey Map

Webinar 6 – Group Presentations Use the library online – what are the relevant
questions and issues?
Pick a stakeholder and map out their 2
journey. Describe the emotional journey
as well. Click here for guidance
Webinar 4 – Big challenges Big
Webinar 8 – DT & Strategy ideas
9 April:
Design Thinking for Business
Bringing it all together – Group More tools for understanding and new tools for
ideating
Presentations (click here for more info)
Submit this
4 work &
6 5 bring a 3 Visualise
7 copy to
A roadmap
“Try this at Home” –
click here for instructions
class 13
Webinar 2 & 3 – What is / Industry
and here for more guidance

Cat’s guide to tasks and Webinar 5 – What wows 5% of your mark

partner project & CLN formation This forms part of your final

activities in this Course Webinar 7 Wicked problems; Desirability, Feasibility & more. annotated portfolio of work (Task
Testing, prototyping, delivering, Click to see what you need to read. 2) and is worth 5% of your

8 Assessment Writing a Report iterating and more overall mark

(See assignment task here)

Tasks 17 May Group Report 24 May Annotated

due (30%) Portfolio Due (15%)
Take on board feedback from presentations and Submit examples of your Task 2.2 Completes Task 2, and
submit a group project report – is worth 15% of your overall Mark Click here for more info
click here for more info

Head out into the world with

new ways to solve problems

24 May Major Essay Due 30% Receive Feedback

Individual essay – Max 3000 Words (Task 1 = 30% of your
overall mark) Click here for more info
I will give you feedback in class and along the way for your
initial submissions (Task 2.1), Group Presentation (Task
Questions:
3.1) and Group Report (3.2). Feedback and Grades for your
final essay (Task 1) and your completed annotated

01/06/2 Cathryn.Nolan@rmit.edu.au
portfolio will only be released when grades are finalized in
June 2020
2.1 Annotated Portfolio Part 1
 Journey Map
 Stakeholder Map / Mindmap
 Research Plan
 Reflection
 Visualisation
Group Presentation
Each group will present on day 4
3 MINS per team member + time for Q&A
Each CLN must clearly articulate the aspect of the wicked problem that they chose to explore,
drawing on and responding to the design brief and criteria they must address each of the following:
 Design brief / Criteria (What problem are you solving?) 25pts
 Ideas – at least one for each active group member + identify the one you’re going to focus on 15
pts
 Stakeholders 15pts
 Expected outcomes & success measures (your hypotheses) 15pts
 Assumptions 40pts
 Teamwork 50pts
 Presentation 40pts
No. Criteria Ratings Pts

25.0 to 20.0 to 18.0 to 15.0 to 13.0 to 1.0 to

Design Brief & Criteria
>20.0 pts >18.0 pts >15.0 pts >13.0 pts >1.0 pts >0 pts

Omitted / 25.0 pts
1

The extent to which it was clear what the key components of your
High
brief and criteria were and why they were important (including Distinction Credit Pass Fail not
Distinction
how you identified them) addressed

1.5 to
IDEA Description 15>12pts 12>10.5 pts 10.5>9 pts 9>7.5 pts 7.5 t>1.5pts
>0 pts

Was it clear what your preferred idea(s) are? There must be at

Omitted / 15 pts
2

least one idea for every active group member discussed with a High
Distinction Credit Pass Fail not
clear statement of what your priority ideas are (and why) you will Distinction
addressed
pursue them further.

1.5 to
Target Users / Stakeholders for whom you're solving 15>12pts 12>10.5 pts 10.5>9 pts 9>7.5 pts 7.5 t>1.5pts
>0 pts

Omitted / 15.0 pts
5

Was it clear who you're solving for / who your target users are High
Distinction Credit Pass Fail not
(and why?) Distinction
addressed

1.5 to
Expected Outcomes & Success Measures 15>12pts 12>10.5 pts 10.5>9 pts 9>7.5 pts 7.5 t>1.5pts
>0 pts

Omitted / 15.0 pts
6

What does success look like in this project? What metrics will be High
Distinction Credit Pass Fail not
used? How will they be measured? Distinction
addressed
 40.0 to 32.0 to 28.0 to 24.0 to 20.0 to 1.0 to
Assumptions
>32.0 pts >28.0 pts >24.0 pts >20.0 pts >1.0 pts >0 pts
7 Omitted / 40.0 pts
Is it clear what assumptions have been identified and need High
Distinction Credit Pass Fail not
testing? Is there a sensible approach to testing assumptions? Distinction
addressed

50.0 to 40.0 to 35.0 to 30.0 to 25.0 to 1.0 to

Teamwork
>40.0 pts >35.0 pts >30.0 pts >25.0 pts >1.0 pts >0 pts

The extent to which your CLN appeared to work as a team. This

includes, but is not limited to, the extent to which you appeared
8 to be well organised, the way you transitioned from speaker to Omitted / 50.0 pts
speaker, the way that you demonstrate interest and support in High
Distinction Credit Pass Fail not
each other and the consistency of your approach. The extent to Distinction
addressed
which you turned working together online from a constraint to a
benefit.
 

40.0 to 32.0 to 28.0 to 24.0 to 20.0 to 1.0 to

Presentation
>32.0 pts >28.0 pts >24.0 pts >20.0 pts >1.0 pts >0 pts

The extent to which the group demonstrated strong presentation

9 skills - were the slides appropriate? Did the images used support Omitted / 40.0 pts
the presentation? Were the speakers confident and articulate? High
Distinction Credit Pass Fail not
Did the group demonstrate commitment and credibility? The Distinction
addressed
extent to which you turned presenting online from a constraint to
a benefit.
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HINT: CREATE ARTIFACTS–
INCLUDE PICTURES IN
YOUR PRESENTATION AND
USE THEM IN YOUR
PORTFOLIO AS WELL
 Report to Industry partner
What is
• What relevant information about users and context can be generated? What insights can be generated that help frame and define the problem and
opportunity? What user profiles or patterns do we see emerging?

What if
• How can we synthesise and converge relevant information to a meaningful problem/opportunity definition? When you critically reflect on your information you
can potentially reframe some of the identified issues/opportunities and goals? Which dots do we need to connect to make sense of the problem/opportunity?
What matters most? Which should we act on first?

What wows
• What alternative solutions concepts could help us achieve our goals addressing the problem or opportunity? How might different types of users and
stakeholders interact with those solution concepts? How might these solution concepts develop through an iterative process? What will wow customers and
what will work?
• It is necessary to develop and discuss at least three alternative solution concepts that directly address the defined problem or opportunity.  Apply the
'desirability, feasibility, viability' lens to each and identify the methodologies you would recommend for testing each.

What works
• Which solution package should we select based on desirability viability and feasibility? 
• It is necessary to demonstrate how you arrived at the decision contributing to achieving the strategic goals of the organisation within assumed internal resource
constraints and external market constraints this report stops short of budget details and detailed implementation.
What is the report really doing?
What do you think is
the most likely
recommendation
What are the most and why?
important criteria for
working out which
What are the key idea is most likely to
ideas you came up succeed and how will
with? you test?
What’s the focus
area you chose – and
why you think it’s
important
Again, download and check the criteria
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HINT: CREATE ARTIFACTS
FOR YOUR GROUP
REPORT AND USE THEM IN
YOUR PORTFOLIO AS
WELL
Your individual essay
Drawing on a wicked problem students are required to draw on
the academic materials and their own research to discuss the
circumstances an ways in which Design Thinking might be
deployed in an organisation / industry that they are familiar with,
including the strategic value and potential limitations of doing so.
The final submission must address each of the stages of a model
used in the course (Darden, Double Diamond, IDEO etc) and
recommend and justify a strategic approach to the deployment of
DT in their chosen context.
To successfully complete this task you are required to:

• investigate the topic of design thinking;

• identify a wicked problem relevant to an industry/organisation or a social
issue and be able to articulate why/how this problem is a wicked problem;
• collect, and evaluate evidence;
• outline a plan for the implementation of a design thinking approach to
finding and testing a solution to your chosen wicked problem; and
• establish a position on the topic in general and with regards to your specific
problem in particular by exploring the potential benefits and barriers to the
use of design thinking in this specific context.
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HINT: CREATE ARTIFACTS
FOR YOUR ESSAY AND USE
THEM IN YOUR PORTFOLIO
AS WELL
Annotated DESCRIBE INTERPRET
portfolio • the insight
• Describe the
Circumstances
• meaning (what does
the insight mean?
Why is the context
important?)

EVALUATE PLAN
• why is this insight • & transfer new
valuable (to you) learning
• When/where will you
use this tool /
insight / learning?
What will you do
differently?
Questions?
robert.mcclelland@rmit.edu.vn