Contents

Publisher’s acknowledgements

Getting started

What is The Really Good Idea Test?

Who is The Really Good Idea Test for?

How this test works

Excuses innovators give to avoid idea testing!

Ground rules

Are you working in an organisation or with investors?

A note on research regulations and personal safety

Step 1 Write hypothesis

1. Your goal

2. The idea

3. The people who will benefit

4. The action

Bring it all together to write your hypothesis

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Step 2 Identify risks

Four main categories of risky assumptions

Prioritising and finding existing evidence

What constitutes good enough evidence?

Using this process to manage other people’s opinions

Examples of riskiest assumptions

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Step 3 Create questions

How to write good questions

Questions respond to the four risk categories

Using materials in section D

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Step 4 Find interviewees

Why face-to-face research is so important

Writing your recruitment criteria

Creating your ‘group profile’

Finding interviewees who fit your group profile

Difficulties finding interviewees

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Step 5 Measures & targets

Set individual measures

Set group targets

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Step 6 Conduct interviews

Logistics

Starting the interview: The introduction

Good practice for research conversations

Closing the interview

Practice interviewing

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Step 7 Analyse & decide

Listen back to your interviews

Calculate scores and gather important additional insights

Deciding to PURSUE

Deciding to STOP

Use this opportunity to review your own research skills

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Moving forward

Good practice to continue as you move forward

Moving forward in different environments

The Really Good Idea Test’s seven steps have been tried and tested far and wide

The Really Good Idea Test principles were used to create this book

How using The Really Good Idea Test helped me to position this book

Index

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