Reflection – Mind Mapping

Challenge

My challenge revolves around food security which is to be given to the poor people of my country.  There are around 88 million poor people in India and My target is to make a food chain which can  help these people. We have to cover approximately 10 million people in the next decade.

Selection

Mind Mapping is the perfect tool to go with as it helps us to know our potential customers, their  need, their difficulties and many other things on a single board. In the video lecture professor  emphasize its use as it increases our creativity and by using this tool, we had a solid plan to follow.  Earlier we (my team) were just assuming things.

Application

With the help of mind mapping we will interlink the region’s staple food to the poor people of that  particular region only, so by this we can save the cost of transportation also. Through mind mapping  only we came to know that we can generate revenue from poor people by fulfilling their needs also.  We have many NGO’s and government policies to compete with but with the help of mind mapping  we came with a solid plan to stand different from them. We will be focusing on food quality which  other people are lagging somewhere. For ex: If Rice grows in your region in ample amount so we will  contact the local farmers there and will ask them to sell their crops to us, we will be setting our small  plant in that region and will process food there. We will serve that food in the near area at a minimal  cost to the needy people.

Insights

Before using Mind Mapping or I would say Design thinking we were not able to come to the  conclusion of how to implement this idea. I was not focussing on What wows? And What works? .I  was going for a large area to cover without any prototype version implemented at small area. That  was my mistake during the early days but now I know how to go through the line.

Approach

There were many mistakes and faults in the idea which we amended after going through this  beautiful course. Each and every tool plays its important role in designing or shaping the raw idea to  perfect idea. Visualization might have made our idea more attractive and feasible. With the help of  storytelling we might have gone through different angles of people’s thought process. Learning  Launch might had helped us in testing our idea on a small scale and then to jump on bigger level.

This course helped me a lot!!

