This assignment is designed to test and exercise students’ divergent and converg

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This assignment is designed to test and exercise students’ divergent and convergent thinking skills, as well as the ability to stay problem-minded and to consciously delay solution-mindedness. Write 2 - 3 pages. Subject : strag for innovation and entreprnershp

Fuzzy Situation: Wandering Residents

The situation described in the paragraph below has been selected because it is familiar to most people, either through direct personal family experience with a loved one or through the experience of extended family or friends, or coverage in various media.

In this assignment you are to assume the position of the executive director of the facility asked to define the problem as accurately as possible.

“In an intermediate and skilled care nursing facility housing about 100 residents, the staff are concerned about senior residents who wander into rooms of other residents and cause a disturbance. At any one time there seem to be several residents who have difficulty finding their rooms. One of the facility administrators has suggested that the residents be escorted back to their rooms. However, this will require some time to be freed up from an already overworked staff.”

Your assignment is not to solve the problem, but to define it: All problem definition statements must be in challenge form beginning with “How might we…?”  

“How might we…?” is a solution-finding question. The value in it is that it prevents stagnation and demotivation that occurs when faced with difficult, negative facts. Instead of “We can’t because…”, “How might we” gets people thinking of solutions that might work given the understood facts of the situation. Refer to the Berger chapter

The process to use:

Using divergent thinking, brainstorm a long list of tentative problem definitions (each starting with How might we…?”)

When you are finished diverging, select the one “How might we…?” from your list that you most prefer as the definition of the situation in your opinion.

Present your final problem definition, with your rationale for selecting it. What fact(s) in the brief description of the situation most impacted your thinking about the situation? What facts, or ideas that were not in the fuzzy situation description – if any – impacted your thinking and therefore your “How might we…” challenge statement?

Consider your problem definition in light of obvious – and, in some cases, quite obvious – solutions that would result from the “How might we” challenge statement in terms of legality, ethicality and appropriateness. What steps might have to be taken to prevent any illegal and/or unethical courses of action, if any?

Expectations:

Your assignment must include:

your entire list of brainstormed problem definitions,

the problem definition you chose as the best, most preferred option, and

your rationale supporting for selecting it (as described in the assignment)

Explanation / Answer

How might we questions.

1) How might we have a common meeting place for the senior residents to chill out?

2) How might we engage the senior residents in doing something productive few hours a day?

3) How might we place direction/sign boards to the rooms at each floor?

4) How might we leverage few senior residents of each area to share the load of showing the path?

5) How might we have visiting time to visit other resident rooms?

6) How may we keep the senior residents engaged?

7) How may we reduce the work of overworking staff?

8) How may we make the place more senior resident friendly?

9) How may we engage facility administrators in helping senior residents?

The best one i prefer is - How do we engage senior residents in doing something productive few hours a day?

By engaging them in the productive work, firstly they all stay together for most of the day. So, anything that needs to be discussed or shared shall be done there. Secondly, by giving them something productive to do, they could earn something for themselves, just like a work from home option. Thirdly, since they stay together most of the day, they shall stay in their respective rooms rest of the time. This reduces wandering to other rooms and disturbing others. This might solve the problem.

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