Assignment - Design Thinking 

 Challenge :    I am a Mechanical Engineering Professor and Founder of Achievers Scientific - a very new company   formed as part of our family business . Achievers Scientific aims to develop AI products for existing   mechanical systems , predominantly renewable energy systems . We are in the preliminary stage of   our business . Since the product offerings are very new and does not have historical data and   involves many uncertain parameters , it is difficult to comprehend the strategy for my new business .   My existing expertise is with Energy Systems and I am currently engaged in learning the AI part of my   business through online courses . My main challenge is to evolve a growth strategy for my start - up   considering the unknown parameters of the unknown business environment . The sub challenges to   achieve the main challenge include ( but not limited to ): ( a ) Identifying the target market and   customers which I have to interview ( b ) First few projects to gain the momentum of my start - up ( c )   Resources needed with investment plan and ( d ) plan for start and survival followed by growth . I am   in the preliminary stage of WHAT IS phase of design thinking . 

 Selection :    The tool I selected for my challenge is Visualisation Tool . Visualisation Tool is graphically   representing your ideas / concepts , real world design parameters and literally anything associated   with what you want to convey and make things understand first to yourself and then to others using   flow diagrams , mind maps , product sketches , pasting photos or newspaper clippings etc . ( anything   graphical ) .    Video reference : Week1 – Visualisation tools   The reasons why I selected this tool : ( a ) Most of the concepts I am dealing are abstract in nature   and need some physical representations ( Graphics ) to comprehend ( b ) To establish connections   amongst the various elements while designing the business ( c ) To identify synergies and sub   systems / super systems by drawing Venn diagrams to name a few . 

 Application :    Altogether , I have drawn multitude of sketches like 2D graphical projections , product sketches ,   business mind maps , Venn diagrams covering various aspects of how the business can be . Firstly , I   used a mind map visualisation to formulate the business vision , goals , target customers , potential   products , momentum projects to begin with . To identify the required areas of expertise , potential   markets to venture , synergies and collaborations , I used Venn Diagrams to visualise intersections   and outliers ( what not to focus on ) . I used flowcharts for drawing the growth phases , 2D graphs to   visualize growth projections . I also sketched some products to visualise how the products can be – not necessarily product design which I can do only after digging deep through customer interviews   for potential customer preferences . 

 Insight :    The first thing that Visualisation helped me is in understanding of my own ideas . Most of the ideas   were cluttered in my mind and was not yielding a reasonable structured decision to go ahead . Once I   drew diagrams of the abstract and real concepts of the business , it helped me to draw some   meaningful conclusions . The next thing that visualisation tool helped me was in convincing the team   with whom I have to collaborate to build these systems . There used to be many things which I   can not put in words but diagrams helped me to convey the ideas very well with the team . 

 Broadly speaking , Visualisation is a very powerful tool and businesses should not shy away thinking   that whatever they convey through words will be understood by the targeted audience . This is   particularly useful especially with the multi - cultural and multi - lingual world we are living in where   there are some serious information losses and ambiguity due to different perceptions of the same   information . Visualisation makes it very clear . On top of that , Visualisation also organises the ideas   of the employees in a more structured and understandable format thus reducing any fallacies in   communication or information losses within the organisation or team . 

 Approach : 

 I would definitely apply the same tool - Visualisation next time as well for it has given me better   understanding of the envisioned business for myself and the team . Since we were doing diagrams on   paper , it was a bit cumbersome with many emails back and forth . Instead , we might consider using   online platforms such as sketchboard.io where we can collaboratively draw diagrams in the cloud .   This will reduce time and efforts in Visualisation and is very useful if your team mates are   geographically distributed apart . 

 To convey to the larger audience , we may use Visualisation tool followed by Storytelling to provide   clarity in what we intend to offer and get deep insights into how our potential customers may react .   From the course , I have also realised that one tool does not fit all and we may have to use different   combinations relevant to the problem we are solving . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
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### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Assignment - Design Thinking 

 Challenge :    I am a Mechanical Engineering Professor and Founder of Achievers Scientific - a very new company   formed as part of our family business . Achievers Scientific aims to develop AI products for existing   mechanical systems , predominantly renewable energy systems . We are in the preliminary stage of   our business . Since the product offerings are very new and does not have historical data and   involves many uncertain parameters , it is difficult to comprehend the strategy for my new business .   My existing expertise is with Energy Systems and I am currently engaged in learning the AI part of my   business through online courses . My main challenge is to evolve a growth strategy for my start - up   considering the unknown parameters of the unknown business environment . The sub challenges to   achieve the main challenge include ( but not limited to ): ( a ) Identifying the target market and   customers which I have to interview ( b ) First few projects to gain the momentum of my start - up ( c )   Resources needed with investment plan and ( d ) plan for start and survival followed by growth . I am   in the preliminary stage of WHAT IS phase of design thinking . 

 Selection :    The tool I selected for my challenge is Visualisation Tool . Visualisation Tool is graphically   representing your ideas / concepts , real world design parameters and literally anything associated   with what you want to convey and make things understand first to yourself and then to others using   flow diagrams , mind maps , product sketches , pasting photos or newspaper clippings etc . ( anything   graphical ) .    Video reference : Week1 – Visualisation tools   The reasons why I selected this tool : ( a ) Most of the concepts I am dealing are abstract in nature   and need some physical representations ( Graphics ) to comprehend ( b ) To establish connections   amongst the various elements while designing the business ( c ) To identify synergies and sub   systems / super systems by drawing Venn diagrams to name a few . 

 Application :    Altogether , I have drawn multitude of sketches like 2D graphical projections , product sketches ,   business mind maps , Venn diagrams covering various aspects of how the business can be . Firstly , I   used a mind map visualisation to formulate the business vision , goals , target customers , potential   products , momentum projects to begin with . To identify the required areas of expertise , potential   markets to venture , synergies and collaborations , I used Venn Diagrams to visualise intersections   and outliers ( what not to focus on ) . I used flowcharts for drawing the growth phases , 2D graphs to   visualize growth projections . I also sketched some products to visualise how the products can be – not necessarily product design which I can do only after digging deep through customer interviews   for potential customer preferences . 

 Insight :    The first thing that Visualisation helped me is in understanding of my own ideas . Most of the ideas   were cluttered in my mind and was not yielding a reasonable structured decision to go ahead . Once I   drew diagrams of the abstract and real concepts of the business , it helped me to draw some   meaningful conclusions . The next thing that visualisation tool helped me was in convincing the team   with whom I have to collaborate to build these systems . There used to be many things which I   can not put in words but diagrams helped me to convey the ideas very well with the team . 

 Broadly speaking , Visualisation is a very powerful tool and businesses should not shy away thinking   that whatever they convey through words will be understood by the targeted audience . This is   particularly useful especially with the multi - cultural and multi - lingual world we are living in where   there are some serious information losses and ambiguity due to different perceptions of the same   information . Visualisation makes it very clear . On top of that , Visualisation also organises the ideas   of the employees in a more structured and understandable format thus reducing any fallacies in   communication or information losses within the organisation or team . 

 Approach : 

 I would definitely apply the same tool - Visualisation next time as well for it has given me better   understanding of the envisioned business for myself and the team . Since we were doing diagrams on   paper , it was a bit cumbersome with many emails back and forth . Instead , we might consider using   online platforms such as sketchboard.io where we can collaboratively draw diagrams in the cloud .   This will reduce time and efforts in Visualisation and is very useful if your team mates are   geographically distributed apart . 

 To convey to the larger audience , we may use Visualisation tool followed by Storytelling to provide   clarity in what we intend to offer and get deep insights into how our potential customers may react .   From the course , I have also realised that one tool does not fit all and we may have to use different   combinations relevant to the problem we are solving .
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