Reflection – Learning Launch

Challenge

I'm working in IT center of a large financial organization. Our challenge is to increase  the workflow efficiency of inspecting banking cheques manually by our bankers. In  the same time we have to ensure that we keep high level of accuracy and to keep  the confidential of the data

My team wanted to test and collect data on two different ideas that we had.  We decided use the learning launch tool on the two different ideas to experiment  the feasibility and the accuracy of the solutions and to compare them to the  conventional way in short time.

Selection

In the past, my team tried to implement some new method and ideas. We spent a  lot of time and eventually they lead us to decrease in the accuracy. So now we  decided to try the learning launch tool to quickly test a new ideas.

Application

For our first learning launch, we used out of the box ICR tool (optical handwrite  character recognition) to decode the sum and the date from the cheques images on  our internal net.

For our second learning launch, we used innovative collaboration method with  Unicamp. In this method we derived the relevant text area from the cheuqus images  and send the only the relevant text image to Unicamp. Unicamp has an application  that send the text images to people on the internet to decode the text. Every text is  decoding by 2 different people. In few minutes we get back the decoded data and  we marge it in our process.

We decoded the same 1,000 cheuqus in the two learning launch and comperd the  decoded data to the manually inspection of the same cheuqus by our bankers.

Insight

By applying the Learning Launch tool we achieved in a very short time and minimum  effort a very good evaluation of the different solutions camper to our conventional  way.

We found out that the best method for us is the collaboration with Unicamp.  According to the data that we collected in the learning launch it was the most  efficient and accuracy method.

Approach

After this experience, I can tell that using the Learning Launch tool was a very good  decision, we have learned that the key to success is an entrepreneurial mindset of  action and not analysis, speed and not long study times, and testing of new ideas as  soon as possible.

