Challenge & Selection

As an aspiring entrepreneur, I am always looking for the loopholes in any system or environment so  as to fill them with great ideas or solutions. I use to meet a lot of people from various economic,  social and professional backgrounds and talk about the domains they work in, kinds of problems  they face, etc. to get a better understanding of their industry and how can I spot a loophole in that  area.

Finally, I found a loophole in one such industry and tried to find a solution. But to clear the clouds  and to ensure that all my teammates are on the same page and that they understand the problem  really well, I used VISUALIZATION to explain what the problem is at the hand, what is going in  everyone’s mind and how can we connect the dots in order to come to a solution.

Application

Here is the visualization that I created to give my teammates an idea of what we are stepping into  without even mentioning the exact industry we are doing this for. I tried to keep the visualization as  simple as possible by using only the keywords. I divided the entire chain of stakeholders into  different parts and then mentioned what I think about them. There isn’t a large amount of data  pertaining to the industry I am trying to tap so I didn’t even try to include any data from financial  and market reports. Take a look:

I used clouds and various geometric shapes to represent entities and attributes. The computer  represents US (my team) which in turn can incorporate technology into the system to bridge the gap  between the suppliers and the audience they long for. As not much of the data was available online,  so we used “??” for the representing the lack of data.

Each member of my team came up with a visualization and we discussed them all to get a better  understanding of the problem at hand.

Insights

Every visualization somewhat cleared the clouds and on reaching the last visualization, everyone was  on the same page. This exercise made us all think spontaneously and also ensured that every  member was a part of the discovery phase. At the end of this exercise, we were clear about what we  know, what we didn’t know and what we need to know. Now, the only thing that was not covered in  this tool was that we didn’t know how to learn that we didn’t know.

Approach

This tool made the problem exploration and understanding easy. We came up with a lots of opinions  and perspectives. But, also we thought that we could’ve included a lot more in our visualization tools  such as some existing related graphs, videos, photos of the stakeholders, etc. Instead of creating a  static visualization, we can include more movements into our visualization and to connect the dots.


Challenge & Selection As an aspiring entrepreneur , I am always looking for the loopholes in any system or environment so as to fill them with great ideas or solutions . I use to meet a lot of people from various economic , social and professional backgrounds and talk about the domains they work in , kinds of problems they face , etc . to get a better understanding of their industry and how can I spot a loophole in that area . Finally , I found a loophole in one such industry and tried to find a solution . But to clear the clouds and to ensure that all my teammates are on the same page and that they understand the problem really well , I used VISUALIZATION to explain what the problem is at the hand , what is going in everyone ’s mind and how can we connect the dots in order to come to a solution . Application Here is the visualization that I created to give my teammates an idea of what we are stepping into without even mentioning the exact industry we are doing this for . I tried to keep the visualization as simple as possible by using only the keywords . I divided the entire chain of stakeholders into different parts and then mentioned what I think about them . There is n’t a large amount of data pertaining to the industry I am trying to tap so I did n’t even try to include any data from financial and market reports . Take a look : I used clouds and various geometric shapes to represent entities and attributes . The computer represents US ( my team ) which in turn can incorporate technology into the system to bridge the gap between the suppliers and the audience they long for . As not much of the data was available online , so we used “ ? ? ” for the representing the lack of data . Each member of my team came up with a visualization and we discussed them all to get a better understanding of the problem at hand . Insights Every visualization somewhat cleared the clouds and on reaching the last visualization , everyone was on the same page . This exercise made us all think spontaneously and also ensured that every member was a part of the discovery phase . At the end of this exercise , we were clear about what we know , what we did n’t know and what we need to know . Now , the only thing that was not covered in this tool was that we did n’t know how to learn that we did n’t know . Approach This tool made the problem exploration and understanding easy . We came up with a lots of opinions and perspectives . But , also we thought that we could ’ve included a lot more in our visualization tools such as some existing related graphs , videos , photos of the stakeholders , etc . Instead of creating a static visualization , we can include more movements into our visualization and to connect the dots .