Learning Launch    Challenge  I am a consultant at a technical consultant firm, and I am active in on an in-house team called  innovation team. In that team we are getting innovative new ideas from colleagues. The team  gets to grade the ideas and by how new and innovative the idea is and when the idea gets a  specific score that are in the green zone then we will we assign some engineers in the specific  area that is needed for example if it is in IoT, Mechanical, Thermal, or Electrical and so on. It  all depends what the idea is where it ends but usually more than one area is involved. The  green zone means we will start realizing the idea by starting to make a specification and  eventually to do some smaller tests and if works then it eventually be a real product in the  future.     Selection & Application  We have done some design thinking tools and want to try the Learning Launch Tool. I think  it will be great to apply this tool to do some experimental with a new innovation  idea/prototype that don’t exist today in the world. Main purpose is the do it quickly and to  test it if the idea works in real life and second purpose is also to keep it small and low cost.    Starting with breaking down the idea in several system and take the critical system for the  product and make a simplified specification list for it. When the specification is complete  then it is time to a small experiment that tests the functions of the new innovative idea. If it  works, we will do same process for the other systems and until it is done. Is often that we buy  the standard items that are cheap and works to test the system.     Insight  By learning and seeing the tool Learning Launch it is good approach to identify the  assumptions and make/design the assumptions to test if it works. In our innovation team and  the key stakeholder is the consultant company can make more better decision to terminated it  or continue with the project/idea. The biggest insight is to verify if the idea works or not then  make a better decision.      Approach  Our team at the innovation has several design thinking tools and with board knowledge  within the product development. When an idea gets to more attention because of the green  zone score it will more like be built in small scale to verify idea and minimizing the big cost  when hitting an obstacle. The Learning Launch Tools is a good tool to apply. I think it I will  applying this tool more often when it is suitable.

