These digital templates can be used in team sessions for problem identification and creative problem solving.
Creative problem solving is a foundation of many of the innovation and design thinking processes. From identifying the problem, to studying it, and then brainstorming how to solve it, there are many factors at play that can be improved through the use of a digital whiteboard tool like Miro. In our latest blog post, we’ll share several problem solving templates created from Miro, Mural, and other top whiteboard tools that can help you during a creative problem solving or problem identification session.
1. Miro – Structured Problem Solving
This template follows structured problem solving, an approach that draws on scientific thinking to solve a complex problem. Once a problem has been identified and the target outcome is set (typically, finding a solution to improve or eliminate the problem), your team can use the template to manage each step of the process.
2. Miro – Creative Problem Solving (Using SCAMPER)
This SCAMPER template is designed for creative problem solving ideation. As we’ve discussed previously in a SCAMPER blog post, SCAMPER is an acronym that features the following ideas and approaches:
- Substitute: Replace with something else
- Combine: Unite into one
- Adapt: Adjust to something new
- Modify: Change something
- Put it to another use: Change when, where, or how
- Eliminate: Get rid of something
- Reverse: Change it up
This template can help you use this methodology in the creative problem solving process.
3. Miro – Problem Framing Workshop
Prime Motive’s Miro template is another way to unpack a problem and define it by asking the right questions from the start. The four-part process helps to align teams on what needs to be solved and why.
4. Zoom Whiteboard – Problem Analysis Template
This Zoom Whiteboard template is a great place to start when you are trying to define, identify, and understand a problem more deeply.
5. FigJam – Problem Statement Template
This template from FigJam can help your team fully understand the problem and answer a series of questions to help before the brainstorming process begins.
6. Klaxoon – Fishbone Diagram Template
This template from Klaxoon features the “Fishbone” (or “Ishikawa) diagram, a tool useful for team problem solving sessions. The template can help you identify all the root causes of a problem and organize them, then list actions to be taken to solve or eliminate them.
7. MURAL – Problem Solving Template
This template from MURAL allows you to host a silent brainstorm session with teams and come up with many different ideas and solutions in a short amount of time.
8. Lucidspark – TRIZ Problem Solving Template
This template from Lucidspark follows the TRIZ problem solving technique, where you are taken through a process of identifying the general issue and then narrowing that down to specific problems and issues. Then, you can solve them quickly and systematically.
Creative Problem Solving Template Conclusion
These problem solving templates can be used in a multiple of ways, including during the innovation and design thinking process. If you would like custom help to use these templates in your creative problem solving workshop or innovation meeting, you can reach out to us online today.
A template gives a session structure, but the quality of the thinking comes from how the session is facilitated. If you want more starting points, browse Miro’s template library or see our collections of brainstorming templates and design thinking exercises and activities. For help designing the session itself, we run facilitation workshops for teams and internal facilitators.
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