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How to become a dreamer with a problem-solving mindset
Bring creative planning into your strategic dreaming process.
Walt Disney once said,
“People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. The answer is, you do it by working.”
Creativity is for everyone, and everyone has a good idea. Creativity dwells in possibility, as Emily Dickinson had it, finding new connections among known quantities and taking a curious mindset even toward the mundanities of work. It expresses your accumulated knowledge and your unique worldview through little representations of the world as it could be. Imagination is freedom, and when it inspires our creative planning and strategic dreaming, our imagination can find ways to shape the world around us for the better.
At the end of the day, we have a simple choice: to turn ideas into action or not. We will not be able to bring our dream to life if we do not just start on it. It does not matter where we start from, what matters is that we start.
Your strategic dreamer needs a creative planner.
Steve Jobs once noted that “Ideas without action aren’t ideas. They’re regrets.” A dream without a plan is just a wish; join it with a plan of action, though, and that dream becomes a goal you can achieve.
Let’s take a step back and consider how this marriage of dreaming and planning affects digital solution development. These days, many digital solutions are expected to find a mass audience as quickly as possible and evolve from there. It also speeds up the process of achieving a Minimal Viable Product. Or, even better, a Minimum Lovable Product that conveys demonstrable value in its own right.
“The customers you serve today are not the same customers that were served 30 years ago, no matter which industry you’re in. The quality of products…
