Final Assignment - Learning Launch Tool

It's common in the business world that when an idea arises the following thing to do is a business plan, but frankly this traditional approach it's not the right one to do as Herbert Heinze explains. So what is the right thing to do? As I have learned throughout this course going directly into numbers won't necessarily give you the outcome you’re looking for, it will be more likely to go for a plan that includes human-centered solutions, that is possibility driven, and finally is optioned-focused.

In the Learning Launch Tool when an idea arises it should be followed by an experiment that is somewhat fast and cheap and secure that would test your hypothesis. Your experimentation process must be fast because you don't have a lot of time and it must be cheap because you’re trying to find different solutions and various ways to make your idea possible; learning launches need to be performed quickly since you also need to have contact and communication with customers.

The next step for the learning launch tool is to find the specific person and your specific need, and that the idea meets the needs of the consumers. The purpose of this step is not to prove that your idea is smart, it is to prove that your idea will confirm or disconfirm your assumptions and the hypothesis you made in the first instance, but most importantly is that you feel truthful about your idea and that this idea will truly satisfy your consumers. And the last step would be to know that failure is part of the process and that it will happen, failure is learning.

I selected The Learning launch tool because to me it was so fascinating to learn about, and as the professor mentioned in the lecture that this wasn’t exactly like the scientific method, but honestly, I thought it had some similarities, and also may I add I found it more helpful, innovative and smart. To me it also felt like it was “the scientific method” of design thinking for innovation, yes it has steps to follow but it also makes sure that it has experimenting, communication, and a new way to design ideas and solutions.

I haven't had the opportunity to use this tool in the work area or even at school, but in my day-to-day life, I’ve had. Since the day I took the lecture it made me think differently and process information to create solutions more smartly. And I had the opportunity to implement some day-to-day really easy activities at home like moving around some boxes and organizing really small spaces.

The step of the learning launch tool that made a huge impact on myself and in how I face different challenges and situations is the experimentation step, you have to think quick and cheap. We don't have all the time to sit down and think of a hundred solutions for a problem that may be solved with only three, and in those three maybe you will fail, and that is okay because failure is learning. For sure when I go back to school and have a lot of projects and homework to do I will have a different approach to the problems and how to think smartly to have a solution.

