The Health Concerns In Streetism Case Study

1. The problem statement my team is working on is The Health Concerns in Streetism. The Design Thinking approach is the best compared to Rothwell’s generation strategies. With this approach, we could well define the problem and realize the problem space we were dealing with through empathy. Empathizing is a deeper stage in understanding the problem, as we were able to generate the true underlining needs of the users and what thwarts that need, giving us deep insights on the problem. Design Thinking is most suitable for our problem as unlike 40 years ago when Rothwell’s Coupling of Research and Development and Marketing (3G) strategy was in place, it does not focus on the technological capabilities of the company. The Design Thinking approach
The use of the Design Thinking process allows us to make use of abductive reasoning in coming up with numerous reasons related to the problem, deriving various preconditions which could all be possible solutions and opportunities for innovation. This way, we are not just limited to just one solution which can be wrong, we can explore each option to find the optimum one. It is a generative process in which new ideas are brought about instead of evaluating the old existing ways of the market, which are what is always being done and fails in finding new meaning to permanently improve their health and wellbeing. Especially 40 years ago which involved just product or process innovations (technical), instead of innovating for the entire market (non-technical), like the Design Thinking approach does, to find a global permanent solution covering all the stakeholders involved in the problem space: The NHIS, the Ghana Health Service, hospitals, NGOs, the public, and most importantly the street
One of the street children had a huge cut across their foot from kicking a metallic object. He, however, did not allow anyone to examine his foot, but only the leaders and Nikki Horne, the Executive Director of Future of Africa; that dressed the cut using her first aid kit. This was due to the strong relationship they had developed with each other. This trust, we feel is essentially one of the keys behind the problem of them having access to health care. We feel the children do not visit the hospital because that good relationship between the hospitals and the street children has not been