Mind Mapping

Challenge: Describe your challenge, including all relevant information.

When I enrolled in my first case championate, I decided not to create my own team, but use a  system called “Team roulette”. I t was my first experience, and so it was for my new teammates.  Case was based on logistecs, and we needed to decide, how we will collect our information in  order to get insights about our potential strategy.

Selection: In your own words, briefly describe the tool you selected (e.g., what it is and  why you selected it for your challenge -- including any appropriate video lecture  references).

Firstly, we tried to collect our information on A4 pieces of paper – and we learned that it is not  suitable to collecting large pieces of data (20+ A4 lists isn’t very clear, when you trying to  analyzing them simultaneously, right?). So we decided to use what called in this course as Mind  Mapping, but in a digital form.

Application: Describe how you applied the tool you selected to your challenge (e.g., what  you did and how the tool was applied effectively or ineffectively).

We decided to use a platform called “Miro”. It is an online desk, where you can place stickers,  phrases, images, arrows, smiles and etc. in order to use and operate the data with comfort. So  we distributed our pieces of information across the deck and finally got the answers from the mind  map. Maybe our use of the technique was not very effective, but finally we got answers – and the  right answers!

Insight: Describe the insight you gained from applying the tool you selected to your  challenge (e.g., how an insight affected your thinking about the challenge and about  design thinking more broadly).

We used ti think that the problem was only in logistics itself, but because of the results of our  analysis we started to look at our abstract logistics problem as a subset of a discrete, small  concrete problems. It was not shocked us, but we never even thought about it unless we  uncovered it with the use of mindmapping.

Approach: Describe what you might do differently next time -- applying the same tool you  selected or a different one -- and the reason(s) why

I may use it slightly differently, necause from the course we know, that it is not preferable to use  such technic, working with a linear problems. So I would rather divede the problems into the linear  structural and non-linear unstructured types of problems, analyzing them with differentl  approaches.

