12 Critical Thinking Case Study: Darcy Street Enterprise coffee cart
Learning Objectives
John demonstrates how his business idea was developed using critical thinking.
- Critical thinking skills are essential for entrepreneurs
- Reliable sources of information are required
- Identify good and bad sources of information
- Consider what is a good source
- What kind of barriers are there to making a good decision
Critical Thinking: Tools for Success
How important is critical thinking and information skills for an entrepreneur?
Watch this video to find out how John developed an idea for a solar-powered coffee cart. While you watch, think about the question: How did the business owner use critical thinking in the coffee cart innovations?
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Ways of thinking and doing and barriers to critical thinking
Think about the coffee cart example you have just seen in the video. What questions could you ask for each of the elements of critical thinking as applied to the coffee cart example? For example, for evaluating information and sources, you might need to ask ‘what sources of information would help us make good choices to achieve our business goals?’
Then think about a barrier to critical thinking, e.g. a barrier related to evaluating information and sources could be using unreliable information.
Critical questions and barriers
What sources of information help us make good choices to achieve our goals?
What are the different options for securely storing the cart?
How can we use the coffee cart for social good? How can we reduce our power usage?
How can people easily move the cart to different locations?
How can we use these answers to make choices for our business?
