{"id":898,"date":"2020-05-24T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codify.in\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=898"},"modified":"2021-05-25T20:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:30:43","slug":"methodology-misfit","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/glossary\/methodology-misfit\/","title":{"rendered":"Method(ology) Misfit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One statement we often hear is a nice example of this: <i>&ldquo;At [company] we tried to solve Y &lsquo;with&rsquo; [sic!] <a href=\"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/glossary\/design-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Generally speaking, design thinking is a set of procedures and problem-solving behaviors of (industrial) designers and the mindset they bring along with. In today&rsquo;s business context it often describes a team-based methodology to the creation of user-centric innovation concepts.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">design thinking<\/a>. It didn&rsquo;t work.&rdquo;<\/i> Now, if Y is a mere technical problem, or if the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/making-sense-why-design-thinking-fail-gk-vanpatter\/\">tried to apply basic d.School (experience) design methods to an organizational change problem space<\/a>, we clearly have a <a href=\"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/glossary\/method\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"We say: it&rsquo;s a way of carrying out a particular task, which often comes as a detailed set of step-by-step instructions on what to do. The Oxford Dictionary says: it&rsquo;s &ldquo;a particular procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one.&rdquo;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">method<\/a>(ology) misfit, as they&rsquo;ve chosen the wrong approach for the problem at hand. So often such misfits are caused by human behavior, which this old proverb puts nicely: <i>&ldquo;If your only tool is a hammer, then every problem becomes a nail.&rdquo;<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The application of a methodology or method which was created for a particular context in a situation or environment to which it is poorly adapted to, or not applicable at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-category":[131,132,134,135,136,152,167],"encyclopedia-tag":[241,195,244],"coauthors":[142],"class_list":["post-898","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-category-design-thinking","encyclopedia-category-digitalization","encyclopedia-category-innovation","encyclopedia-category-lean-startup","encyclopedia-category-new-work","encyclopedia-category-sd-logic","encyclopedia-category-sustainability","encyclopedia-tag-method","encyclopedia-tag-methodology","encyclopedia-tag-stacey-matrix"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-category?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codify.in\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}