Challenge 

 I want to start an innovation consulting firm that uses design thinking to help small and 

 medium - sized organizations create and innovate new products and services . My first significant   task was to develop a business plan for this new firm . I signed up to receive mentorship from the   Service Core of Retired Executives ( SCORE ) , a non - profit organization that provides free   business mentoring services to prospective and established business owners in the United States .   After reading numerous books on the topic of writing business plans and attending a great   number of webinars on the same topics , I finally settled on The One - Page Business Plan concept   to create my initial business plan . I used the visualization tool to help crystallize my ideas for the   business plan . 

 Selection 

 I chose the visualization tool , or visual thinking because it provided a way to sketch out 

 ideas of what my new business venture would look like . After attending a great course titled ,   Market Research for Entrepreneurs sponsored by ECornell , I decided to grab a notebook and get   started writing my initial business plan . I have so many ideas about what I want to do , but I had   not connected my business concept to a real need in the marketplace . Visualization and mind   mapping and considerable research allowed me to identify perceived needs of my potential   customers and it also helped me to think about the vision , mission , and purpose of my company . 

 Application 

 After making lots of notes and recording numerous ideas in my notebook and reading and   rereading them repeatedly , I decided that I needed to get started crafting my business plan . I   attended a seminar sponsored by the Small Business Administration ( SBA ) titled The One - Page   Business Plan , created by Jim Horan , President of the One Page Business Plan Company . The   beauty of this concept is that it focuses the prospective entrepreneur on key parts of the business   plan and leads them through developing their ideas related to vision , mission , objectives ,   strategies , and action plans . While my ideas are still in a rough first draft , seeing my business   plan take shape and come together was inspirational and motivated me to do more , including   signing up for the Design Thinking for Innovation course . 

 Insight 

 From the visualization tool , I learned that the ideas and creative substance of my new   business are within me , I needed a tool to bring it out of me . The visualization tool helped me to   conceptualize my vision of what my company could be in the future . I used words , diagrams , and   pictures to help crystallize the concept of my company and the value that I would bring to small   and medium - sized enterprises . Additionally , I learned that the one - page business plan is just a   start and the more substance that I add to my plan , the more real the business becomes to me and   the more excited I get about launching this new venture . On a broader note , I see applications for   design thinking everywhere . I researched various methods , processes , and procedures to use as a   foundational method to launch my new company , after being introduced to design thinking , I   knew I had found my method . 

 Approach 

 The major thing that I would change is to not wait for a specific tool or procedure to get   started writing my business plan . I needed to start creating and developing my plan before   finding a tool . I felt that I used the lack of a tool as an excuse not to move forward with planning .   Additionally , I used the mind - mapping tool to sketch out my ideas , but I did not use it as it was   described in the “ What Is ” process . The way I used it was more aligned with how the creator ,   Tony Buzan , originally intended for the mind - mapping tool to be used . For my next challenge , I   will use the tool as outlined in the course 


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: Challenge 

 I want to start an innovation consulting firm that uses design thinking to help small and 

 medium - sized organizations create and innovate new products and services . My first significant   task was to develop a business plan for this new firm . I signed up to receive mentorship from the   Service Core of Retired Executives ( SCORE ) , a non - profit organization that provides free   business mentoring services to prospective and established business owners in the United States .   After reading numerous books on the topic of writing business plans and attending a great   number of webinars on the same topics , I finally settled on The One - Page Business Plan concept   to create my initial business plan . I used the visualization tool to help crystallize my ideas for the   business plan . 

 Selection 

 I chose the visualization tool , or visual thinking because it provided a way to sketch out 

 ideas of what my new business venture would look like . After attending a great course titled ,   Market Research for Entrepreneurs sponsored by ECornell , I decided to grab a notebook and get   started writing my initial business plan . I have so many ideas about what I want to do , but I had   not connected my business concept to a real need in the marketplace . Visualization and mind   mapping and considerable research allowed me to identify perceived needs of my potential   customers and it also helped me to think about the vision , mission , and purpose of my company . 

 Application 

 After making lots of notes and recording numerous ideas in my notebook and reading and   rereading them repeatedly , I decided that I needed to get started crafting my business plan . I   attended a seminar sponsored by the Small Business Administration ( SBA ) titled The One - Page   Business Plan , created by Jim Horan , President of the One Page Business Plan Company . The   beauty of this concept is that it focuses the prospective entrepreneur on key parts of the business   plan and leads them through developing their ideas related to vision , mission , objectives ,   strategies , and action plans . While my ideas are still in a rough first draft , seeing my business   plan take shape and come together was inspirational and motivated me to do more , including   signing up for the Design Thinking for Innovation course . 

 Insight 

 From the visualization tool , I learned that the ideas and creative substance of my new   business are within me , I needed a tool to bring it out of me . The visualization tool helped me to   conceptualize my vision of what my company could be in the future . I used words , diagrams , and   pictures to help crystallize the concept of my company and the value that I would bring to small   and medium - sized enterprises . Additionally , I learned that the one - page business plan is just a   start and the more substance that I add to my plan , the more real the business becomes to me and   the more excited I get about launching this new venture . On a broader note , I see applications for   design thinking everywhere . I researched various methods , processes , and procedures to use as a   foundational method to launch my new company , after being introduced to design thinking , I   knew I had found my method . 

 Approach 

 The major thing that I would change is to not wait for a specific tool or procedure to get   started writing my business plan . I needed to start creating and developing my plan before   finding a tool . I felt that I used the lack of a tool as an excuse not to move forward with planning .   Additionally , I used the mind - mapping tool to sketch out my ideas , but I did not use it as it was   described in the “ What Is ” process . The way I used it was more aligned with how the creator ,   Tony Buzan , originally intended for the mind - mapping tool to be used . For my next challenge , I   will use the tool as outlined in the course
### Output: 