Reflection – Learning Launch 

 Challenge 

 I am working with a global manufacturing company and I am member of a team responsible for   implementing enterprise product development software . Our challenge is to rollout standard product   development process across all regional within the organization which has variation is culture , beliefs   and working habits . The purpose of having standard product development process is to improve “ Time   to Market ” and support “ Distributed Manufacturing ” in the organization . The project team includes   members from design , manufacturing , procurement and IT departments . Total project duration is 120   days to study ‘ What Is ’ process across all regional facilities and provide working solution acceptable by   all regions in organization . We will focus on trying to uncover what are common steps across   departments , which can be mapped straight forward and for remaining we will identify the patterns   which can be communized . 

 Selection 

 In the situation we are in , it is very essential to gain quick confidence of our customers which in this case   are the internal engineering departments located in different geography . Learning launch will help us   perform quick experiments , test and do prototyping . 

 Application 

 For our first learning launch , we focused on the common tasks performed by design departments across   regions . We conducted two days of workshop with representatives from different regions participating .   Aligning on common steps was comparatively straightforward , this helped us to gain confidence and put   forward the bigger picture . Next we went through five day workshop on experimenting solution which   has common patterns but different behaviors of doing the tasks . In second workshop we focused on   best practices in product design and lean working . Additionally we bought in manufacturing directors in   discussion to have hands on experience on the tests process . However as expected we could not have   alignment from procurement as they need to get involved before manufacturing . 

 In our third workshop we focused on improvising on the benefits of common process by ideating the   complete process that would work for all teams . The complete process brought more clarity to   departments and regional members . 

 Insight 

 Using learning launch tool we tested our assumptions and experimented different solutions . This helped   our team to apply their thoughts on expected outcome and focus on organizational common goals . We   failed to get alignment with our assumption that non - engineering department is trivial in this process .   Team quickly got their act together in fixing the things and reprioritizing of tasks in process helped us get   through in next attempt . Moving forward team reviewed the learning and incorporates it into next   launch designs . The ongoing incorporation of insight is particularly important at this stage , as launches   come before a full rollout in the design thinking timeline . 

 Approach 

 The lesson we learned from this exercise is that – it is very important to conduct small experiments ,   which helps to connect well with the customers and understand their needs . Small test drives better   solutions for long term and brings regional/ departmental communalities in front of all . Learning launch   also forced us to adopt lean practices to drive real value . With the given scenarios and organization   construct we have gone through multiple design thinking sessions and learning launch has helped our   team make good progress which earlier was a challenge . We will continue to learn and experiment to   move closer our bigger target of distributed manufacturing and reduce time to market . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
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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: Reflection – Learning Launch 

 Challenge 

 I am working with a global manufacturing company and I am member of a team responsible for   implementing enterprise product development software . Our challenge is to rollout standard product   development process across all regional within the organization which has variation is culture , beliefs   and working habits . The purpose of having standard product development process is to improve “ Time   to Market ” and support “ Distributed Manufacturing ” in the organization . The project team includes   members from design , manufacturing , procurement and IT departments . Total project duration is 120   days to study ‘ What Is ’ process across all regional facilities and provide working solution acceptable by   all regions in organization . We will focus on trying to uncover what are common steps across   departments , which can be mapped straight forward and for remaining we will identify the patterns   which can be communized . 

 Selection 

 In the situation we are in , it is very essential to gain quick confidence of our customers which in this case   are the internal engineering departments located in different geography . Learning launch will help us   perform quick experiments , test and do prototyping . 

 Application 

 For our first learning launch , we focused on the common tasks performed by design departments across   regions . We conducted two days of workshop with representatives from different regions participating .   Aligning on common steps was comparatively straightforward , this helped us to gain confidence and put   forward the bigger picture . Next we went through five day workshop on experimenting solution which   has common patterns but different behaviors of doing the tasks . In second workshop we focused on   best practices in product design and lean working . Additionally we bought in manufacturing directors in   discussion to have hands on experience on the tests process . However as expected we could not have   alignment from procurement as they need to get involved before manufacturing . 

 In our third workshop we focused on improvising on the benefits of common process by ideating the   complete process that would work for all teams . The complete process brought more clarity to   departments and regional members . 

 Insight 

 Using learning launch tool we tested our assumptions and experimented different solutions . This helped   our team to apply their thoughts on expected outcome and focus on organizational common goals . We   failed to get alignment with our assumption that non - engineering department is trivial in this process .   Team quickly got their act together in fixing the things and reprioritizing of tasks in process helped us get   through in next attempt . Moving forward team reviewed the learning and incorporates it into next   launch designs . The ongoing incorporation of insight is particularly important at this stage , as launches   come before a full rollout in the design thinking timeline . 

 Approach 

 The lesson we learned from this exercise is that – it is very important to conduct small experiments ,   which helps to connect well with the customers and understand their needs . Small test drives better   solutions for long term and brings regional/ departmental communalities in front of all . Learning launch   also forced us to adopt lean practices to drive real value . With the given scenarios and organization   construct we have gone through multiple design thinking sessions and learning launch has helped our   team make good progress which earlier was a challenge . We will continue to learn and experiment to   move closer our bigger target of distributed manufacturing and reduce time to market .
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