1. Technology Mining Idea Starters Custom Printing - on YOU!
1. How can you make a normally permanent part of your service/product a temporary one?
2. How can you add an element of on-the-spot customization or personalization to your offering?
The Prinker is the world’s first temporary tattoo printer that prints right on your skin! (Available in Japan)
3. How can you make the last step of getting your product/service the Magic Moment?
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Source: Prinker website

2. TOGETHER Market Mining Idea Starters
1. How can you make it easier for remote employees to collaborate - even when they don’t have an overt need to?
2. Sometimes time is as much a barrier as distance. How can you help colleagues problem solve in 5 minute blitzes?
IBM (and others) ordering it’s work-from-home employees to stop working from home
3. Think about your physical and digital assets. What might be an unlikely way to “re-leverage” other assets to help feel closer and more connected?
Studies have reinforced the so-called “water cooler effect,” which indicates that employees who work in the same location communicate, collaborate, innovate better and perform better than if they were all working from their homes. “I think that getting everyone in a room, hashing it out, throwing it up on a whiteboard is my preference rather than doing share screens,”
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Source: Washington Post

3. Future Mining Idea Starters Less Entrepreneurs?? but…
According the the Kauffman Foundation of Entrepreneurship, despite the chatter - the Millennials represent a FALL in the rate of young entrepreneurs
from 35% to 23%.
1. If there are less entrepreneurs in the future, how does that affect your business?
More educated than any other previous generation of entrepreneurs - with not just higher education but nearly 50x more entrepreneurship courses available to them than the previous generation.
2. If millennials aren’t picking the path of entrepreneur, how can your organization attract them?
3. Some of the world’s greatest advancements and employment come from entrepreneurs and small business. How can we reignite this dwindling population?
but…
net worth is
43% less
than previous generations
and they have more debt
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Source: The Kauffman Foundation