Sumithra Pandiaraj
Staff Product Manager, Walmart
Sumithra is a product manager with over 6+ years of experience in product management and digital consulting. Prior to Walmart, she worked with Apple, Blackberry Group, Konrad group...
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Tricky Workplace Situation Handled
- Convergent Thinking
- Divergent Thinking
- 5+5 has only one right answer whereas ?+? has an infinite number of right answers
- Tim's team is applying divergent thinking. Susan's team is applying convergent thinking.
- Divergent thinking helps brainstorm ideas to identify potential markets and convergent thinking helps narrow down the potential identified markets using constraints and risk analysis to identify feasible and realistic untapped markets.
- On a high level, there are many opportunities in the digital space to meet needs in the health sector, education and argo-tech.
- I think there is a huge unmet need in the agriculture sector to connect farmers with customers (farm to table) eliminating the need for a middlemen (grocery retail stores).
- Employees need to be trained and briefed on how to handle situations like this. With proper awareness and training, employees can learn to better react to these situations without compromising on company information.
- This situation reminds me of a brainstorming process to ideate. Through proper structure and planning, one can drive an idea from concept to a successful launch.
- By evaluating the risks and trade-offs to come up with potential solutions to address the current crisis situation.
