Visualization Tool

Challenge

I was given an opportunity to lead the innovation program of our department, the goal of the Innovation  program is to give everyone an opportunity to work on things they wanted aside from the everyday  deliverables. We have use different visualization tools like actual postit, lego and other visualization tools  but due to our current situation as everyone was working form home, we need to improve our program  by adapting to online visualization tools. In our innovation program we are following the template of  Kickbox an open source innovation program from Adobe. The challenge will be how continue the use of  Visualization tools in our Innovation program? How effective the online visualization tools to us?

Program Details

Our innovation program was designed to be highly collaborative and use a lot of posit for generating and  visualizing participants ideas.

Adobe Systems has recently launched a program to drive innovation from within, the Adobe Kickbox. The  Kickbox is a small, red cardboard box containing everything an employee needs to generate, prototype,  and test a new idea. According to Adobe, the Kickbox is “designed to increase innovator effectiveness,  accelerate innovation velocity, and measurably improve innovation outcomes.”

Selection

We thinking on how we can continue to visualize our activities following the kickbox program during  lockdown. We initially picked Jam board as the most similar and popular tool that we can use in  visualization of our idea generation.

Tool 1- Jamboard

https://edu.google.com/products/jamboard/

Simple as a whiteboard, but smarter

Jamboard is one smart display. Quickly pull in images from a Google search, save work to the cloud  automatically, use the easy-to-read handwriting and shape recognition tool, and draw with a stylus but  erase with your finger – just like a whiteboard.

Share ideas in brainstorms or lectures

Jamboard makes learning visible and accessible to all collaborators on the jam session. Plus, Its easy to  present your jams in real time through Meet, allowing for easy sharing or making real-world connections.

Tool 2 – Miro- Visual Collaboration Software

https://miro.com/

Miro is the online

collaborative

whiteboard platform

At Miro, we’ve built a platform for modern work, enabling collocated,  distributed, and remote teams to communicate and collaborate across

formats, tools, channels, and time zones — without the constraints of physical

location, meeting space, and whiteboard

Application

The Jamboard link was given ahead of time to the participants including the Kickbox proram kit so that  they start inputting the ideas prior on the idea generation proper. We set 5 mins each for the activities.   Everyone should be able to input ideas within the timebox. After the timebox we need to visually arrange  on sticky notes and group the similar or related ideas. We can now ask them to vote for the ideas everyone  was given 3 votes. The winning ideas will be for discussion.

Insights

Jamboard was a good tool for idea generation as we are able to ideas gather ideas in one board, we are  able to successfully able to complete our activities in the kickbox program by using Jamboard with higher  engagement. During the program the use of  Jamboard was expanded as a question board to avoid  duplicate question as you are able to see if you have similar questions. The Jamboard tool was able to  help us to gather ideas more and able to complete the program even we are shifting to a digital tools.

As we are still navigating in tools, we also use Miro in some of our activities. Miro was able to improve our  progress as it has good template to follow after generation ideas. We also like the tool that you can show

only your ideas after the timebox as this will avoid copying ideas as well. We also wanted to the feature  of voting button which is absent in Jamboard.

Jamboard will have limit of 50 while for Miro unfortunately we wasn;t able to to explore.

If you have smaller group and can be easily manage I would use Jamboard even without the other features  from Miro. If you have large group I will advise to use Miro so that we can utilize the power of visualization.

Approach

I will continue using Jamboard and Miro as of the moment as it supports our activities but I will still  continue to discover and experiment tools that can be used to improve the process. If you need more  than 20 pages I will definitely use Miro instead of Jamboard. At the end of the day the team will decide  on which tool to use. Keep on exploring, experimenting and learning.


Visualization Tool Challenge I was given an opportunity to lead the innovation program of our department , the goal of the Innovation program is to give everyone an opportunity to work on things they wanted aside from the everyday deliverables . We have use different visualization tools like actual postit , lego and other visualization tools but due to our current situation as everyone was working form home , we need to improve our program by adapting to online visualization tools . In our innovation program we are following the template of Kickbox an open source innovation program from Adobe . The challenge will be how continue the use of Visualization tools in our Innovation program ? How effective the online visualization tools to us ? Program Details Our innovation program was designed to be highly collaborative and use a lot of posit for generating and visualizing participants ideas . Adobe Systems has recently launched a program to drive innovation from within , the Adobe Kickbox . The Kickbox is a small , red cardboard box containing everything an employee needs to generate , prototype , and test a new idea . According to Adobe , the Kickbox is “ designed to increase innovator effectiveness , accelerate innovation velocity , and measurably improve innovation outcomes . ” Selection We thinking on how we can continue to visualize our activities following the kickbox program during lockdown . We initially picked Jam board as the most similar and popular tool that we can use in visualization of our idea generation . Tool 1- Jamboard https://edu.google.com/products/jamboard/ Simple as a whiteboard , but smarter Jamboard is one smart display . Quickly pull in images from a Google search , save work to the cloud automatically , use the easy - to - read handwriting and shape recognition tool , and draw with a stylus but erase with your finger – just like a whiteboard . Share ideas in brainstorms or lectures Jamboard makes learning visible and accessible to all collaborators on the jam session . Plus , Its easy to present your jams in real time through Meet , allowing for easy sharing or making real - world connections . Tool 2 – Miro- Visual Collaboration Software https://miro.com/ Miro is the online collaborative whiteboard platform At Miro , we ’ve built a platform for modern work , enabling collocated , distributed , and remote teams to communicate and collaborate across formats , tools , channels , and time zones — without the constraints of physical location , meeting space , and whiteboard Application The Jamboard link was given ahead of time to the participants including the Kickbox proram kit so that they start inputting the ideas prior on the idea generation proper . We set 5 mins each for the activities . Everyone should be able to input ideas within the timebox . After the timebox we need to visually arrange on sticky notes and group the similar or related ideas . We can now ask them to vote for the ideas everyone was given 3 votes . The winning ideas will be for discussion . Insights Jamboard was a good tool for idea generation as we are able to ideas gather ideas in one board , we are able to successfully able to complete our activities in the kickbox program by using Jamboard with higher engagement . During the program the use of Jamboard was expanded as a question board to avoid duplicate question as you are able to see if you have similar questions . The Jamboard tool was able to help us to gather ideas more and able to complete the program even we are shifting to a digital tools . As we are still navigating in tools , we also use Miro in some of our activities . Miro was able to improve our progress as it has good template to follow after generation ideas . We also like the tool that you can show only your ideas after the timebox as this will avoid copying ideas as well . We also wanted to the feature of voting button which is absent in Jamboard . Jamboard will have limit of 50 while for Miro unfortunately we wasn;t able to to explore . If you have smaller group and can be easily manage I would use Jamboard even without the other features from Miro . If you have large group I will advise to use Miro so that we can utilize the power of visualization . Approach I will continue using Jamboard and Miro as of the moment as it supports our activities but I will still continue to discover and experiment tools that can be used to improve the process . If you need more than 20 pages I will definitely use Miro instead of Jamboard . At the end of the day the team will decide on which tool to use . Keep on exploring , experimenting and learning .