Examples
Example: Breaking down a niche and finding problems
In this example there is a scenario of breaking down a niche into sub niches and then coming up with problems of the sub niches. This type of activity can be very helpful when you’re trying to figure out a problem to solve.
- In the centermost square, we put the niche under consideration, ‘Teachers’
- The surrounding squares are sub niches of the teacher niche: teachers of young kids, middle school teachers, junior high teachers, high school teachers, community college teachers, college professors, trade school teachers and business trainers.
Breaking it down
Lets take a look at how the ‘High School Teachers’ sub niche problem discovery blossom:
- Kids get unruly in class
- Homework takes a long time to grade
- Some kids cheat in class
- Teachers don’t get much pay
- Some high school teachers get bored in summer when school is out
- Teachers get frustrated by kids not wanting to challenge themselves
- Teachers don’t like that the curriculum is often dictated to them and want to have more freedom to choose how they run their own class.
- The classes are too full thus kids aren’t getting the individual attention they need.
We filled in a few more boxes in other blossoms in the downloadable Excel workbook discussed at the end of the article. Check out the tab ‘Example-Niche Breakdown’.
Source: https://thoughtegg.com/lotus-blossom-creative-technique/
Case Study: Breaking down a niche and finding problems
