Example Reflection- Visualization

Challenge and Selection

The first tool I used was the tool of Visualization, or Visual Thinking, to achieve a shared understanding of  a problem space among a diverse group of peers before attempting to identify and define possible  solutions to the problem. I was introduced to a small sector firm who worked for social cause and also  which was a startup with not much audience. I was given a task to find ways for our improvement and  growth of our cause. I used the first tool i.e. visualization or visual thinking to find ways for the growth of  our cause. It was expected of me to use graphs and data to explain everything verbally, but instead i  chose to use visualization for this explanation. Visualization was easy and the most innovative step. With  the help of data in a visualized manner the presenter can explain his thoughts more clearly. I used this  method to draw my peer’s attention to the scope, problems, boundaries, key elements, and relationship  with the people and the areas of improvements. I used flow charts and abstract designs for my process.

Application

I first took 5 of my team members to conduct a survey by contacting the people for whom we were  working. With the help of them we came to know what sought of marketing we were using and what we  were doing through customers’ point of view. We noted down those data and were prepared to the  visualization step. We already had materials but i wanted them from a customer’s point of view.    We had plethora of data with us. So we started sorting of the data’s which would be beneficial for us and  divided them into groups. We did not threw the unwanted data as we did’t knew when that would have  been beneficial for us. Then we made a flow chart of all our process. From gathering funds to delivering  the products. This process was described in a flow charts with flaws described by a side arrow.    Now we gathered our team members. We first explained them about this chart which was easily  understood by them because of use of creative clips. Afterwards we gave them a pen and paper and told  them to jot down there ideas which would be helpful for us.     After this we discussed the points and then came to a conclusion of what steps we need to take so that  we can get an inclined graph in our datebook. During discussion certain points were given which our team  was not able to shed light on. This helped us to make a strategy and we were ready to implement it.    When the strategy was implemented, we got good results but we expected more. Again we started to find  the mistakes which we were doing and the process again started. We are increasing our family day by  day, although not much big but yes our graph is going upwards every day.

Insight and Approach        We have learned a lot from this exercise, that if we try to explain our ideas to our groups using visual  creative and entertaining ways, it would yield us good results for sure. The graphic gives other to share  their perspective as they are able to get to know what we are trying to say. They are able to gather much  information of what we are trying to say and then able to share what they have in their mind. At that time,  we didn’t knew that this process is said visualizing but after knowing it we would prefer it always. In this  way we have covered the part of storytelling as well as visualizing.

