Design Thinking Final Assignment 

 Challenge & Selection 

 I am a member of our Data Analysis team in a small organization where part of my role is to produce   monthly reporting for various lines of business .   This reporting has been going on for many years without   change or modification to them .   Recently it has been discovered these reports are generated and   distributed but are not being consumed . They contain detail information for each line of business   containing month to date , year to date , month over month and year over year comparisons for both   financial and total product quantity information and distributed to all stakeholders . Our challenge is to   make the reports easily consumable and relevant for the stakeholders .   Our Data team is moderately small   and was given until the next reporting cycle to come up with a solution . For this I will be using the Mind   Mapping tool of Design Thinking . 

 Application 

 I began looking at all of the most recent reports and started to pull out key pieces of information and   began placing them on poster boards , this was done by enlarging some pieces of the reports .   Next , we   printed out multiply copies of the reports and placed them on tables in the boardroom , with pads of paper   and markers .   We invited all stakeholders into the board room for a casual discussion on the current state   of the reports .   All stakeholders were invited to walk around the boardroom and look at the key pieces of   information enlarged on the poster boards .   Afterwards the stakeholders reviewed the current reports   and made markings on them outlining which information was important to them and what they would   like to see .   Once this was complete , we regrouped to review the findings .   Since the group of stakeholders   and Data team are small ( under 10 ) we regrouped into only one group .   We had each stakeholder share   their changes and information they wanted to see on the reports .   After each stakeholder had taken their   turn , we turned this into a round table discussion while a member from the Data team took notes on the   white board .   Once the round table discussion was finished , the Data team took all the marked - up reports   and notes from the white board .   We used these to make a complete redesign of the current reports . 

 Insights 

 By using the Mind Mapping tool , this allowed me and the rest of the Data team to gather firsthand insights   from the users of the reports as to why the reports were not being consumed and what information was   important to them on a monthly basis .   By combining the information on the marked - up reports and notes   from the round table discussion it was clear to see the stakeholders wanted to see high level data with   some visuals to make the reports easy to consume , with the needed detailed reports in the last few pages   of the reports if they needed to review the detail .   This has also shown the need to have dashboards   created from the reports .   This Design Thinking tool was a great approach to understand why the current   process of reporting just was n’t working and allowed the data team to get firsthand insights from the   users . 

 Approach 

 The Mind Mapping tool was the right approach to tackle this challenge , it allowed us to gather insights   and understand what the end user needed .   The most valuable portion of this process was gaining the   firsthand insights from the stakeholders during the round table discussion . 


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: Design Thinking Final Assignment 

 Challenge & Selection 

 I am a member of our Data Analysis team in a small organization where part of my role is to produce   monthly reporting for various lines of business .   This reporting has been going on for many years without   change or modification to them .   Recently it has been discovered these reports are generated and   distributed but are not being consumed . They contain detail information for each line of business   containing month to date , year to date , month over month and year over year comparisons for both   financial and total product quantity information and distributed to all stakeholders . Our challenge is to   make the reports easily consumable and relevant for the stakeholders .   Our Data team is moderately small   and was given until the next reporting cycle to come up with a solution . For this I will be using the Mind   Mapping tool of Design Thinking . 

 Application 

 I began looking at all of the most recent reports and started to pull out key pieces of information and   began placing them on poster boards , this was done by enlarging some pieces of the reports .   Next , we   printed out multiply copies of the reports and placed them on tables in the boardroom , with pads of paper   and markers .   We invited all stakeholders into the board room for a casual discussion on the current state   of the reports .   All stakeholders were invited to walk around the boardroom and look at the key pieces of   information enlarged on the poster boards .   Afterwards the stakeholders reviewed the current reports   and made markings on them outlining which information was important to them and what they would   like to see .   Once this was complete , we regrouped to review the findings .   Since the group of stakeholders   and Data team are small ( under 10 ) we regrouped into only one group .   We had each stakeholder share   their changes and information they wanted to see on the reports .   After each stakeholder had taken their   turn , we turned this into a round table discussion while a member from the Data team took notes on the   white board .   Once the round table discussion was finished , the Data team took all the marked - up reports   and notes from the white board .   We used these to make a complete redesign of the current reports . 

 Insights 

 By using the Mind Mapping tool , this allowed me and the rest of the Data team to gather firsthand insights   from the users of the reports as to why the reports were not being consumed and what information was   important to them on a monthly basis .   By combining the information on the marked - up reports and notes   from the round table discussion it was clear to see the stakeholders wanted to see high level data with   some visuals to make the reports easy to consume , with the needed detailed reports in the last few pages   of the reports if they needed to review the detail .   This has also shown the need to have dashboards   created from the reports .   This Design Thinking tool was a great approach to understand why the current   process of reporting just was n’t working and allowed the data team to get firsthand insights from the   users . 

 Approach 

 The Mind Mapping tool was the right approach to tackle this challenge , it allowed us to gather insights   and understand what the end user needed .   The most valuable portion of this process was gaining the   firsthand insights from the stakeholders during the round table discussion .
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