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How you define a problem will always affect the solutions you come up with. It's certainly important to know any relevant background information and what success looks like, but it is essential that you have fully understood the scope and constraints. The contraints form the boundaries of your creative sand-pit. Often the tighter they are, the more creative you'll need to be in order to find useful solutions (this is good!).
Constraints will often be related to time, money and available resources. They can also be ethical, emotional, even spiritual and should probably touch upon key insights relating to the people involved or the target end-users. Without knowing your contraints two things are fairly certain; first, the problem will be so broad that you will find it hard to focus your efforts, second, you are very unlikely to create a solution that will really meet the needs of the people with the problem. Either way, you'll be wasting a wh*** bunch of effort and energy.
What constraints have you worked with that have forced you to be more creative?
Update: 22:27 05-Mar-10 - There are a wh*** bunch of other posts on constraints but we're not all tagging the same way yet. Here are some links to other posts on this subject you may find useful:
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/innovation-comes-from-1
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/learn1-innovative-constra...
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/innovation-comes-from-2
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