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Solution and challenge

defining how your solutinoa impacts the chal

Overview

All Connected Places Catapult, trial projects are challenge-driven, emphasising the importance of addressing specific challenges with innovative solutions. During the application process, you would have been required to select a challenge, or series of challenges, that your solution responds to. It is important to consider this challenge when showcasing the benefits of your solutions, as this is how impact will be assessed on the project. To do so, this section covers the chosen challenge, your solution, and the strategic fit.

Questions and prompts

Within your trial plan, it will be useful to detail the following:

Challenge: What is the challenge(s) you have chosen to respond to?

Clearly define the challenge, or challenges, your solution aims to address.
Unpack the key user groups who are impacted by the challenge selected.
Make reference to any documentation that you have reviewed when understanding the challenge.

Solution: What is the solution you will be trialling on the project?

Provide a comprehensive description of your solution, including its functionality, intended use, and problem-solving capabilities.
Be clear in the specific use case(s) that you intend to test.
Use a mix of imagery diagrams or video to help the audience quickly understand your solution.

Strategic fit: How does your solution respond to the challenge and broader context?

Explain how your solution directly addresses the chosen challenge.
Unpack how your solution fits within any relevant strategic and contextual factors of the project partners and/or the Catapult.
Include data, statistics, real-life risks or examples that highlight the specific detail and importance of addressing this need.

Working with Network Rail, consider how your solution commercially aligns to their strategic vision of your project partner - such as the performance indicators of Routes and Regions strategy, or to other specific goals the stations have to adhere to.

Useful resources

The following external resources may be useful in defining your solution and challenge:

Strategyn's Jobs-to-be-Done: A Framework for Customer Needs, providing a clear framework for how a customer will be using your solution and for what need.
Design Kit's Frame Your Design Challenge, providing a worksheet to properly frame your design challenge for success.