CHALLENGE

Am an analyst, working as an intern for company that deals in the production and sales of raw material  for the production of plastics and my challenge was to enhance growth in the production sector to meet  up with the weekly and month demand of product(raw material) as the company could no longer meet  up with the customers demand for is product, the project scope consist of two shift(day and night)  with  20 worker in the production sector along with  supervisors two from the two shift and the general  supervisor also the HR department and some other important members of the organization a small  team  put together to enhance different Ideas embracing the act of a learning mind, the project is  schedule to produce result before the monthly demand of product , which means challenges are melt to  be resolve between the first three weeks of the month.

SELECTION

Although the small team stated other design thinking approaches as every ones opinion was consider,  but with some few assumption as team we agree to apply the learning lunching, a fast cheap  experiment, to test hypothesis and our motive was to learn, and also to get the truth that saves time  and money.

APPLICATION

First we begin by asking questions created as a list of dis-confirming fact among small team and also pay  attention  to observe how each shift carry out various duties during work hours   in other to generate  data , within small group we begin by asking the question on "what is" the current status of machine  from identified users of the machine also what is their relationship like as co-workers what is the  environmental condition like to them, if they are satisfied with the duration of time schedule for each of  the working shift and if they were aware of the current situation of the organization although such  information are not at the disposer of production workers  but it just a way of getting them into the  conversation by telling them , as  answers are  allow from either end of the small team going on with the   conversation we ask the question on " what if" the organization is working on expanding the production  sector will it help the current situation also what if the organization is making a budget to buy new  machineries which of the machineries are to be included, double or excluded  on the budget   considering their different usage and necessity and also what if the company want to dissolve old shift  and allow each workers to create shift to match with their repertoire , and of which we had positive  feedback from the data we gather reflecting as confirming facts which were more likely to be truth so  we had no need to "pivot" or "trash can", with the ideal gotten from one week of observation and small  team learning we decided to conduct a fast cheap experiment, based on the Confirming facts we  created an hypothesis with the idea to improve production scale to meet the demand of a particular set  of our costumer(dissatisfied ones) weekly demand of raw material, on the what wows and what works  zone our idea to dissolve old shift and allow each worker to create shift that best suit their persona, co- create a medium that allow each worker to be a boss in their field in the production process by assign  each worker to a particular machine of their specialization to report directly to the supervisors, the idea   satisfy the need of our customer weekly demand for raw material better than the current alternatives,   and after the first weeks of the experiment the other ideas generated through learning lunch where  further implemented as the scale of production improve awesomely in less than three weeks of the  application of the learning lunch approach.

INSIGHT

The knowledge I gained through this learning lunch exercise is the certainty of the saying that ‘idea are  like sand’ and best way to position yourself for these ideas is to have a learning mind and also by  applying learning lunch our assumptions were turn into Confirming fact and also became the idea that  resolve the challenge better than the formal alternatives.

APPROACH

Despite that the small team had other design thinking approach to consider the learning lunch approach  prove to be useful for this particular project and the company adapting to learning mind is also willing to  consider other design thinking tool /approach like story telling for the company advancement after the  positive change experience by the company due to the application of the selected approach, the  learning lunch approach.

