Reflection - Mind Mapping

Challenge:  As a young  person who wants to undertake to generate  incomes, I intend to get to know my users more thoroughly, know their  needs and be able to develop a plan to start successfully.  Mainly it would  be a small business but I hope it grow over time    Selection: the tool that I selected to be able to choose the best  entrepreneurship plan and have different ideas was the mind mapping,  since I am not looking for something analytical, but something creative, and  this tool is the most appropriate to look for patterns and perspectives that  lead to solutions creative.  Thanks to the Design thinking course, I realized that in order to achieve the  successful venture that I want, I must be creative, and look for different  criteria to carry out any of the ideas that are viable for my project.    Application: I applied the Mind Mapping tool following the steps given by  Elena Cirillo and Shakeel Ward in their book “Designing for growth”  Using the metaphor "garage sale" or "art gallery"  First, the ideas and information that we have from different sources are  organized to observe our reality.    Second, we organize our users, who must be people interested in my new  idea of entrepreneurship.  Third: at least 10 people are asked to give us time as we want to know a  little more about them and their intuitions  Fourth: these people are given many notes and a marker, explaining that  they must observe the ideas and information presented and choose the  good and bad things that they find of these in different sticky notes.  This  allows new ideas to be generated.  Fifth: They are asked to meet in groups to share their ideas and then divide  them according to common themes, starting with one person who presents  their idea and then another who has an idea on the same topic and so on  with the different themes that they found.  Sixth: the ideas of the group should be studied and general statements are  obtained by observing the connection between them.  At this point the mind mapping  has been completed, the only thing left to  do is complete the design thinking    Perspective: thanks to the application of the mind mapping  tool, we were  able to obtain the conditions that our design solution must satisfy, in order  to meet the needs of our clients and be able to solve them through our  project "entrepreneurship"  These conditions were based on the insights obtained from our  "application"

Approach: what I could do differently is to add one of the criteria of the  mind mapping and is to ask ourselves, if everything were possible, what  criteria would our design have?  Allowing us to go much further than what  we have been able to perceive through the needs of our clients.  I also  would complement this tool with another that allows me not only to  generate ideas for solutions, but also to help me choose the best  solution.  Such as the Learning Launch

