ADNOC Classification: Internal

Challenge & Selection

In my organization, solving the problems is required a team work and efforts similarly with same organizations /  companies in deferent sectors. Data visualization or visual thinking is essential to have a common understanding  among the team about the problem and give an on spot the feedback and views on the best ways to handle the  problem. For example, I’ve used a straw man visualization technique in many places to support any new initiative  or to overcome any challenges in coordination with my team. It’s where you put in place all the available options  and start discuss and challenge the initiative from all perspectives. For example the organization decided to  develop a dashboard to track the Performance against the yearend goals as we lost the track sometimes due to  non-availability of the balance score card.

Application

I start the process by creating a straw man graphic of the problem domain. In order to do that, I utilize the history  of the organization’s performance and what tools we used to track the performance. Just to understand the basis  and what’s the objective based on the organization directives. Invite the team and assign them per group A, B and  C. Each group will look after deferent obstacle within the visualize straw man. The obstacle represent a challenge.  Firstly, what the weakness in the previous dashboards utilized by the organization. Secondly, what sort of  parameters we need to use. Thirdly, what’s the new dashboard should be contained. By covering those three  challenges/questions, the straw man graphic start improving and our understanding and contribution towards the  challenge is enhanced gradually. By then, the picture became clearer than the beginning and we reached to  develop a dashboard which reflect the organization needs and desired objectives.

Insight & Approach

The lesson learnt from this exercise is segregate the group with separate straw man among the team based on the  identified challenges while incorporate the group’s feedback to develop a compressive view about the dashboard.  Each team work towards one target by enhance the graphic outcomes gradually which led eventually to solve the  problem.

