{"id":836,"date":"2013-05-24T17:13:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.dminlgp.com\/madrid-beginning-to-solve-a-massive-problem-with-a\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T03:25:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T03:25:43","slug":"madrid-beginning-to-solve-a-massive-problem-with-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/madrid-beginning-to-solve-a-massive-problem-with-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid: Beginning to Solve a Massive Problem with a Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week in our Doctor of Ministry cohort we were tasked with reading the book The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures<\/em> by Dan Roam and put the thesis of the book into action.\u00a0 Roam\u2019s central point is that when we draw out our ideas and problems we can see, look, and better understand all the perspectives of the issue, as well as communicate clearly what we want to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

The current problem I chose to address pertains to the city of Madrid and how to reach the hundreds of thousands of university studying in one of Europe\u2019s most massive cities.\u00a0 Currently, we have no staff presence in Madrid, but are beginning to talk to Cru ministries in the states about forming partnerships where they can begin to send short and long term teams to begin to reach university students.\u00a0 With this in mind, we need to begin to visually imagine in a city of Madrid\u2019s size, where do we send resources?\u00a0 Where do we focus our energies?\u00a0 Where should new staff to the city live?\u00a0 Where are the students?\u00a0 \u00a0In fact, Roam suggests running any idea through a series of questions, and then correlating that specific question to a visual image.\u00a0 Since we are essentially asking a where question, Roam suggests a making a map.\u00a0 For this, I generally conceived of Madrid as two large concentric circles.\u00a0 Within the interior circle is Madrid proper, the city, and the outer ring is the Community of Madrid, the wider province complete with villages and cities not geographically connected to Madrid city.<\/span><\/p>\n

After imagining Madrid in this fashion, I began locating universities on my map, and also indicating the amount of students studying in each university.\u00a0 Next I divided Madrid by north and south, and east and west, to form four quadrants to also give us a special sense of the city, to further concentrate on the \u201cwhere\u201d of where people should be sent.\u00a0 Roam also suggests taking any problem through SQUID, another series of questions to refine our visual problem solving. \u00a0In short, is the problem we are working with dealing in values of:<\/span><\/p>\n

Simple or Elaborate<\/span><\/p>\n

Quality or Quantity<\/span><\/p>\n

Vision or Execution<\/span><\/p>\n

Individual or Comparison<\/span><\/p>\n

Delta (Change) or Status Quo<\/span><\/p>\n

This problem is attempting to focus primarily on quantity, or specifically, where are the most number of students located?\u00a0 Moreover, it is comparison, showing the difference between different parts of the city in university location and student population.\u00a0 Thus, to help articulate these aspects of the problem, I added a graph into the map which highlights quantity and comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also believe this drawing can be used to communicate vision, as is allows for people to see need and possibility.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, the drawing answers the question of where resources can go to be the most effective.\u00a0 There is a high concentration of students in the northwest quadrant, specifically within Madrid.\u00a0 At the same time we see that there are only three universities and 13,000 students in the wider Community of Madrid Province. Perhaps, this would not be an area to initially focus on. Thus, if we only had one team to send, it would be to the northwest quadrant of Madrid \u00a0proper.\u00a0 If other teams were to arrive, there could be opportunities to work with the southwest quadrant, where there is another grouping of three universities.\u00a0 The map also raises some other problems that need solving.\u00a0 For instance, the northeast quadrant contains two universities and 54,000 students, but those universities are very far apart from each other.\u00a0 Perhaps another map needs to be drawn just for the this quadrant to begin to brainstorm how to reach both.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week in our Doctor of Ministry cohort we were tasked with reading the book The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam and put the thesis of the book into action.\u00a0 Roam\u2019s central point is that when we draw out our ideas and problems we can see, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,330,326],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dminlgp","tag-napkin","tag-roam","cohort-lgp3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}