This week´s assigment for Design Thinking Lab at Stanford On line Course

1. 50 Solutions to the problem
Narciso Armestar
2013

2. Problem Statement
• Ambitious and idealistic women
entreprenueur with a good knowledge of the
business and the qualifications for her staff
needs a way to find the right staff (good
managers) because her experience trying to
find the right staff is not good enough, her
managers don´t spent to much time at work
and go to a larger firm.

3. Process
1. Define a new process for hire new managers
2. Define a set of competences that will match
with her needs in the managing position
3. Find an outsourcing firm that can follow her
hiring process
4. Look for good managers in similar succesful
firms.
5. Design a high potential evaluation with
expert help.

4. Technology
1. Buy a database with information of graduates
from good business school, and select a group of
good prospects
2. Build a website for work applications and
selection. A “work with us website”
3. Rent specialized websites in hiring people
4. Build a blog in Hospitality Management focus so
find people interested in the business
5. Look in twitter or Linkedit people with a profile
related to Hospitality Industry

5. Schools
1. Go to the best Business Schools and offer
internships in management for graduates or last
year students
2. Make a commitment with good business
schools to teach some specialized subject in
hospitality and look for good students to work
with.
3. Offer a scholarship for last year students and
identify good prospects.

6. Schools
4. Form part of a commission to review curricula in
a business school so can change the programs and
emphasize in soft skills
5. Be a candidate to the congress and work to
change the education in business schools.
6. Create a business school and teach a program
that answer all the work market needs.
7. Form a group of enterprises and launch a contest
for last year students in Hospitality with a Price in
money for the best apply research in the industry.

7. Schools
8. Create a Technical School for short term
carriers specialized in Hotels Managing.
9. Incorporate internships and coworker
programs in Hospitality Schools.
10. Redesign the profile of graduates in
Hospitality programs

8. Compensations
1. Offer a good salary, over the average.
2. Make our firm a best place to work
3. Offer training and develop a career
4. Offer a long term contract
5. Offer a program to get participation in the
equity.