1. WUT - Spring, 2007Exercise: Superhero Powers1 Exercise: Superhero Powers Identify novel ways to provide improvements

2. WUT - Spring, 2007Exercise: Superhero Powers2 Whats - Prioritized Target Improvements Hows – Solutions to Technical Problems Just completed Next

3. WUT - Spring, 2007Exercise: Superhero Powers3 Ideation You are back here! Target Improvement Looking for Technical Solutions Just completed What to improve How to improve it

4. WUT - Spring, 2007Exercise: Superhero Powers4 The purpose of this exercise is to generate: Wild, Crazy, Stupid, Impossible ways to solve technical problems. And then ask: Why is that impossible? What technology do I need to make this possible?

5. WUT - Spring, 2007Exercise: Superhero Powers5 Break into improvement teams. For your improvement, answer these question: Why can’t I make this improvement today? If this is such a big problem, then why has nobody solved it? This will tell you what technical problem you need to solve. Maybe this is a technical problem, but maybe it is not! Maybe it is some other kind of problem! Now…

6. WUT - Spring, 2007Exercise: Superhero Powers6 Each student reads the superhero powers of their Marvel Comics character. The team discusses ways that each superhero power could be used to provide the improvement. You say: If I had this superhero power, I could solve this problem by ……. After discussion, each student writes down a way to provide the improvement using their superhuman power. Don’t worry if this seems crazy or impossible, just write it down! Each student reads their solution to the class.