Reflection – Learning Launch

Challenge & Selection

I work on my company’s Digital Finance team. We are in charge of tracking expenses and  benefits and reporting on them. This entails an emphasis on communicating with different  business areas in order to maintain transparency and accuracy of reported information. Our  challenge is to improve the flow of information to be as efficient and timely as possible. The  scope of this project is the Digital Finance four-person team, and each of the seven business  unit leads that we communicate with, who are all internal resources. The main focus will be on  what method is the most liked by business unit leaders, while remaining feasible for the Digital  Finance team member. The project will ultimately take 30 days to complete, and will be passed  off to one team member to own moving forward. The Learning Launch approach will allow the  team to rapidly test multiple methods and receive feedback in order to pick the most  appropriate process.

Application

For my team’s Learning Launch, we created a hypothesis that the customers (business unit  leaders in our case) wanted effective and timely reporting of accurate expense and benefit  reports. We believed that splitting up the areas within our team to develop more generic and  less individualized reports would streamline the process and result in success. We tried multiple  different reporting structures with varied amounts of information, commentary, and different  points of contacts within the business units over the course of 30 days. Our assumptions were  that at the end of this we would have an idea of which report/process worked the best for  everyone.

Insight & Approach

The Learning Launch tool allows for multiple experiments in order to confirm or dis-confirm a  hypothesis, which is the perfect tool for our project. We were able to test what the other  business units would find most helpful, along with trying many different methods within our  Digital Finance team. We felt that once we picked a most efficient reporting system, we would  have been able to streamline the process enough that one team member would be able to take  over completely, however through the Learning Launch, we found that our “customers”  appreciated having their own individual point of contact on the team. While we were able to  develop a reporting system that people outside of our team found more appealing, moving  forward, we would like to test other ideas on how to delegate the reporting responsibility. A  future Learning Launch should be a good tool to utilize again.


Reflection – Learning Launch Challenge & Selection I work on my company ’s Digital Finance team . We are in charge of tracking expenses and benefits and reporting on them . This entails an emphasis on communicating with different business areas in order to maintain transparency and accuracy of reported information . Our challenge is to improve the flow of information to be as efficient and timely as possible . The scope of this project is the Digital Finance four - person team , and each of the seven business unit leads that we communicate with , who are all internal resources . The main focus will be on what method is the most liked by business unit leaders , while remaining feasible for the Digital Finance team member . The project will ultimately take 30 days to complete , and will be passed off to one team member to own moving forward . The Learning Launch approach will allow the team to rapidly test multiple methods and receive feedback in order to pick the most appropriate process . Application For my team ’s Learning Launch , we created a hypothesis that the customers ( business unit leaders in our case ) wanted effective and timely reporting of accurate expense and benefit reports . We believed that splitting up the areas within our team to develop more generic and less individualized reports would streamline the process and result in success . We tried multiple different reporting structures with varied amounts of information , commentary , and different points of contacts within the business units over the course of 30 days . Our assumptions were that at the end of this we would have an idea of which report / process worked the best for everyone . Insight & Approach The Learning Launch tool allows for multiple experiments in order to confirm or dis - confirm a hypothesis , which is the perfect tool for our project . We were able to test what the other business units would find most helpful , along with trying many different methods within our Digital Finance team . We felt that once we picked a most efficient reporting system , we would have been able to streamline the process enough that one team member would be able to take over completely , however through the Learning Launch , we found that our “ customers ” appreciated having their own individual point of contact on the team . While we were able to develop a reporting system that people outside of our team found more appealing , moving forward , we would like to test other ideas on how to delegate the reporting responsibility . A future Learning Launch should be a good tool to utilize again .