Mind Mapping to deep dive ideas

Challenge & Selection

The tool that I love and will utilize in the concept to generate the ideas is by brainstorming the

ideas and after I find a suitable in the teams. I had the chance to work with a team of juniors

who will work into coming up with a simple solution that will reduce the food wastage and

reduction in waste disposal and management of food waste in the college premises. The college

had provided with the resources and enough space to come with a feasible solution, yet the

time constraint was for a week to present the possible and feasible prospect that can be

implemented in the college. I have used the mind-mapping with possible brainstorming such

that the team of 5 comes up with further solution, we shall dive deep into the state and will help

in presenting the feasible solution.

Application

I have started the process by making the team assemble with fresh mindset in a closed space.

The team is first made to put with possible insight of the problem that we need to address the

necessary outcome without considering the parameter of success in the first space. Now, to

make the idea generation more the necessary tools has been provided and such that the ways

of outcome will meet and align with the true outcome.

Then, we started to do for the brainstorming part where we shall have the better prospects to

understand the key problems. The confirmation bias and idea working bias has been neglected

in the discussion so that the flow of idea was going on a smooth fashion. Once, the possible

ideas have been generated, I have looked to the best fit solution with the necessary calculative

approach based on experience and the skill that have to be taken to part.

Once a core idea has been taken into the chart or board, we give necessary inference and further

idea to dive to the core or central idea from the past that we will have a good part of approach

as it help us to even deep dive into more ideas so that the ideas that was generated keeps

branching such as that it strengthening the ideas to the core. This, will ensure that we will have

to go more into the stages of linking and clustering to the core idea that will be chained to the

ideas derived from the past discussion.

Insight & Approach

What I have learned from conducting this exercise with groups is that while the idea and

brainstorming is important for reinforcing their understanding of the problem they are working

to solve; the more valuable aspect of the activity is the shared insights and shared learning that

occurs while they are working to define their problem space. The mind map gives the diverse

group of ideas generated to a focal point that allows them to share their perspectives and

develop insights into potential root causes of their problems, so that the idea that has

strengthened through the past ideas into a central idea made the possible change. While they

could map from a blank slate idea into a collaborative manner. They can quickly identify where

they are in the state of keeping a more ideas. Since I discovered that the most valuable aspect

is the shared insights and learning, next time I would use the visualization activity as a starting

point for a series of design thinking activities. Then the revised graphic that incorporates their

combined feedback can serve as a reference tool throughout the remainder of their work.

