4- Demand identification

Unmet needs & opportunities
4 – Demand identification
Demand identification

Having defined a focus area to address collectively, the common need of the dedicated partners/collaborators is identified. Here the interaction with other stakeholders increase to deepen and detail the understanding of crucial components. This chapter includes templates to investigate the boundary conditions of the challenge. By completing this step you will have gained an even deeper understanding of your and other’s unmet needs. You will also provide value to these unmet needs and learnings from best practises. The quality is ensured by utilizing competencies from a multi-functional stakeholder perspective. Within the CoP resources are shared and knowledge is built.


Methods

Strategy

  • Playing to win

Service Design Thinking (Discovery/Research Phase)

Prototyping

  • Service processes and experiences
  • Physical objects and environments
  • Digital artefacts and software
Tools

Strategy

  • Strategy charter

Insights

  • Patient/user/customer journey description
  • Personas
  • Journey map
  • Value map
  • System map
  • Requirement tools

Prototyping

  • Desktop walkthrough
  • Cardboard prototyping
  • Rehearsing digital services, interactive click modeling
  • Mission/ Business model canvas

Documentation

Strategy

  • Updated strategy description

Results from activities

  • Need description
  • Beneficiary and end user description
  • Further refined personas description
  • Further refined journey description
  • Further refined value description
  • Further refined system description
  • Refined outcome indicators
  • Outcome of the prior art analysis and an IPR search
  • Business model description
  • Requirement description

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  • Summary of all findings YTD

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Competences
  • Relevant clinicians, Patience or Patience representatives
  • Relevant: technological industry and scientific expertise
  • Policymakers
  • Management
  • Payers
  • Innovation leader/manager
  • Service designer
  • Informatics specialist
  • Legal & Regulatory support
  • Procurement support

*Please note: the full use of the PiPPi Unmet Need Journey and the associated templates is available for CoP members. Sign Up now for access.