Example Reﬂection - Learning Launch 

 Challenge I am part of a team which evaluates new   capabilities and products which should be built   by my Technology company . The challenge for   our team has been to promote innovation in the   organization and get more people to participate   in the process along with their regular jobs . The   objective is to generate new capabilities on a   consistent and scalable basis . While my organization has products which are   well received in the market place and are cash   cows , recent   technological changes and   advances have made innovation a core   objective . 

 Selection I selected Learning Launch as the tool to tackle   this challenge , and the primary reason was the   need to create lots of fast and cheap   experiments , and have this percolated to all   levels of the organization . While the other   thinking tools are appropriate for parts of our   challenge , but does not address the need for   enterprise - wide participation . 

 My primary reference is the Learning launch   video lecture by Marco Klein in Week 4 . 

 Application Our team created and announced a company- wide Hackathon event , framed the rules of   participation and decided evaluation criteria .   Employees were allowed to spend 10 % of their   working time every week to prepare for this event .   They were encouraged to work on products   outside their daily work . Each self - selecting team   should have a minimum number of cross- functional members , and the depth of their   collaboration was one of the evaluation criteria . The core of this innovation was about   understanding the customer ’s needs , their   journeys and pain points they face . Each team had   to take a few of these customer insights and   create a hypothesis about how they will solve this   problem . Most of the organization was energized and we   witnessed nearly 100 different teams participating   in this challenge . The ﬁrst gate was about   identifying which of these hypotheses / ideas were   solvable , and had a large potential market to be   captured . We had to keep a high bar here as the   next step involved more resources , and many 

 teams qualiﬁed . The next step was actually creating a prototype   which can be tested with customers , and their   feedback and insights captured . These teams had   to present their prototype to the Executives along   with customer feedback and their insights . Finally ,   a handful of ideas were selected to be   productized , and the remaining were kept for   future usage . 

 Insight Learning launch is a valuable tool for us , and the   customer insights has been especially useful .   They were enthused as their opinion was sought   and they had the potential to inﬂuence the   product . Disconﬁrming facts have been very effective as   they weeded out a lot of ideas which did not have   sufﬁcient depth of real data . Overall , our design thinking initiatives were very   successful , and we can see the potential for more   such tools to be used across our business . 

 Approach One of the issues we had was that people became   really passionate about THEIR idea , and the   rejection was not taken up well . We need to 

 educate the value of generating ideas even if they   do not get selected . All people involved in this   exercise should be celebrated in a much better   way . The other issue was that the challenge was   deﬁned very broadly , and so we had people   participating in areas which were completely   outside their expert areas . In the future , we might   focus the challenge around our existing product   lines and add a few new products , as we need   product owners to act as guardians . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### 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: Example Reﬂection - Learning Launch 

 Challenge I am part of a team which evaluates new   capabilities and products which should be built   by my Technology company . The challenge for   our team has been to promote innovation in the   organization and get more people to participate   in the process along with their regular jobs . The   objective is to generate new capabilities on a   consistent and scalable basis . While my organization has products which are   well received in the market place and are cash   cows , recent   technological changes and   advances have made innovation a core   objective . 

 Selection I selected Learning Launch as the tool to tackle   this challenge , and the primary reason was the   need to create lots of fast and cheap   experiments , and have this percolated to all   levels of the organization . While the other   thinking tools are appropriate for parts of our   challenge , but does not address the need for   enterprise - wide participation . 

 My primary reference is the Learning launch   video lecture by Marco Klein in Week 4 . 

 Application Our team created and announced a company- wide Hackathon event , framed the rules of   participation and decided evaluation criteria .   Employees were allowed to spend 10 % of their   working time every week to prepare for this event .   They were encouraged to work on products   outside their daily work . Each self - selecting team   should have a minimum number of cross- functional members , and the depth of their   collaboration was one of the evaluation criteria . The core of this innovation was about   understanding the customer ’s needs , their   journeys and pain points they face . Each team had   to take a few of these customer insights and   create a hypothesis about how they will solve this   problem . Most of the organization was energized and we   witnessed nearly 100 different teams participating   in this challenge . The ﬁrst gate was about   identifying which of these hypotheses / ideas were   solvable , and had a large potential market to be   captured . We had to keep a high bar here as the   next step involved more resources , and many 

 teams qualiﬁed . The next step was actually creating a prototype   which can be tested with customers , and their   feedback and insights captured . These teams had   to present their prototype to the Executives along   with customer feedback and their insights . Finally ,   a handful of ideas were selected to be   productized , and the remaining were kept for   future usage . 

 Insight Learning launch is a valuable tool for us , and the   customer insights has been especially useful .   They were enthused as their opinion was sought   and they had the potential to inﬂuence the   product . Disconﬁrming facts have been very effective as   they weeded out a lot of ideas which did not have   sufﬁcient depth of real data . Overall , our design thinking initiatives were very   successful , and we can see the potential for more   such tools to be used across our business . 

 Approach One of the issues we had was that people became   really passionate about THEIR idea , and the   rejection was not taken up well . We need to 

 educate the value of generating ideas even if they   do not get selected . All people involved in this   exercise should be celebrated in a much better   way . The other issue was that the challenge was   deﬁned very broadly , and so we had people   participating in areas which were completely   outside their expert areas . In the future , we might   focus the challenge around our existing product   lines and add a few new products , as we need   product owners to act as guardians .
### Output: 