This document provides guidelines to help you conduct research before facilitating any envisioning or design thinking workshop. The aim is to leverage tools such as Microsoft Copilot to better understand your audience—the business you’re working with—and their specific problems and opportunities.
While this research depends on publicly available information and might not always be up to date, the insights you gather can still be invaluable. They can inform the questions you ask and the data checkpoints you establish during your meeting with the sponsor, where you understand and agree on objectives, review the draft agenda, and more.
To complete this research, you will need to use a tool such as Microsoft Copilot to generate responses to the prompts provided in each section. You can use the starter prompts as a guide to structure your requests to Copilot.