Posts filed under ‘Rearrange the Sequence’
The New York Pizza Bus
Scott Weiner used the Fresh Ideas strategy “Rearrange the Sequence” when designing the business model for his company. Rather than delivering pizza to diners, Scott’s Pizza Tours delivers diners to the pizzarias.
“People always ask me where to find the best pizza in New York but that question is impossible to answer; it’s like asking an artist’s favorite color. There are too many variables: Do you want a sit-down restaurant? Are you looking for a slice or a whole pie? Does too much cheese make you cringe? How far are you willing to travel?
I used to pile inquisitive minds and tummies into my car for a day of sampling interesting pies but demand has far exceeded my Nissan’s capacity. The solution seemed clear: rent a school bus and deliver the people to the pizza! And so the NY Pizza Bus was born.”
Looking Forward to Mondays
Laura Ching, co-founder and chief merchandising officer of TinyPrints.com used the Fresh Ideas strategy ‘Rearrange the Sequence‘ and found a way to help her employees start their weeks on a positive note:
(We want our employees to look) “… forward to Mondays. We didn’t feel that way about the companies that we worked for, for a variety of reasons. And we like to have fun. I mean, we really have the attitude that if we’re going to work a lot of hours, we sure hope our employees will look forward to what they’re doing.
Some of the things that we’ve instituted include taking the celebrations that would typically happen in other companies on Fridays, and we do them on Mondays. We had an Olympics where all the teams competed against each other and did crazy stuff. And that was on a Monday. We have lunches on Mondays and we play bingo.”
You can read more about how Ms. Ching likes to lead differently here.
London’s Pop-Up Restaurants
Amateur chefs tend to start out in amateur kitchens, working over time to become more sophisticated chefs working in increasingly sophisticated settings.
But London’s pop-up restaurants use the Fresh Ideas strategy “Rearrange the Sequence” – offering experiences involving sophisticated chefs cooking in amateur settings (warehouses, rooftops, a Ferris Wheel…)
A New York Times article points out the European twist, “Underground restaurants in the United States usually involve amateurs trying to cook like professionals. Tudor Road presents a professional who cooks in an amateur’s kitchen.”
Catch a delicious slide-show glimpse here as you think about new places to do what you do best.
The Fisch Flip
Teacher Karl Fisch has flipped teaching on its head – providing a nice example of the Fresh Ideas strategy ‘Rearrange the Sequence.’
Old way: teacher uses class time to lecture, then asks students to apply the concepts during homework at night. Sometimes it works well, sometimes it results in frustration or misapplication of concepts.
Fisch Flip: record lectures on video and upload them to YouTube for students to watch at night. In class, work with students as they solve problems and experiment with the concepts.
Consider more examples of this simply powerful strategy in Dan Pink’s The Telegraph article here
Preempt Recycling with Upcycling
Looptworks makes innovative products with materials other producers have discarded as production excess.
This pre-consumer textile waste has never been used, but doesn’t amount to enough for another production run – so off to the landfill it goes. Looptworks intervenes, upcycling the textile waste into limited-edition clothing and gear products.
Subscribers to Fresh Ideas will recognize this as a Rearrange the Sequence strategy at play.
