Reflection – Mind Mapping 

 Challenge & Selection 

 I am working for a huge telecommunications company and I have been working as a project manager   for HR IT topics and right now I work as an enterprise architect . As enterprise architect we always   face situations where we must find solutions to meet business requirements and conduct vendor   selections . In that cases it turned out to be very useful to collect the necessary information out of   brainstormings etc . in a mind map in a first step . In that way we are able to keep our focus on the   main points and their relations to other important information . 

 Another use case developed since the last four to five years , when we started to implement our own   Design Thinking approach to find innovative solutions for our business requirements . Together with   business and IT representatives we severely went through this process and the problem as well as   the solution space often started with a mind map to collect and later give a structure to all the   different ideas . 

 Application 

 In the environment of Design Thinking in our company I usually start the process of mind mapping in   combination with brain storming . As you might realize in that case , we use the mind map in a reverse   order . In a first step every participant of our group gets some sticky notes to write down their   detailed ideas . In a second step we rearrange the sticky notes and try to find categories and maybe   subcategories for all of them . If we find relations , we can make them visible via lines . In the last step   we collect feedbacks on all points and rate them to find the ideas which fit and which may not fit . 

 Insight & Approach 

 What I have learned from conducting the mind map in this way is that the process of idea generation   takes creativity on a higher level . On the one hand , everybody - even introverted colleagues – are   given the chance to share their input via sticky notes . On the other hand people might think further   the ideas of others when they see them on the board . 

 I discovered that the feedback sessions before the rating can be very fruitful if everybody has a short   time slot to present their ideas to clarify open questions from the audience . And finally , after the   ratings , we always have a clear structure with categorized ideas where we have a common sense and   with the rating already reached a prioritization out of our group 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: Reflection – Mind Mapping 

 Challenge & Selection 

 I am working for a huge telecommunications company and I have been working as a project manager   for HR IT topics and right now I work as an enterprise architect . As enterprise architect we always   face situations where we must find solutions to meet business requirements and conduct vendor   selections . In that cases it turned out to be very useful to collect the necessary information out of   brainstormings etc . in a mind map in a first step . In that way we are able to keep our focus on the   main points and their relations to other important information . 

 Another use case developed since the last four to five years , when we started to implement our own   Design Thinking approach to find innovative solutions for our business requirements . Together with   business and IT representatives we severely went through this process and the problem as well as   the solution space often started with a mind map to collect and later give a structure to all the   different ideas . 

 Application 

 In the environment of Design Thinking in our company I usually start the process of mind mapping in   combination with brain storming . As you might realize in that case , we use the mind map in a reverse   order . In a first step every participant of our group gets some sticky notes to write down their   detailed ideas . In a second step we rearrange the sticky notes and try to find categories and maybe   subcategories for all of them . If we find relations , we can make them visible via lines . In the last step   we collect feedbacks on all points and rate them to find the ideas which fit and which may not fit . 

 Insight & Approach 

 What I have learned from conducting the mind map in this way is that the process of idea generation   takes creativity on a higher level . On the one hand , everybody - even introverted colleagues – are   given the chance to share their input via sticky notes . On the other hand people might think further   the ideas of others when they see them on the board . 

 I discovered that the feedback sessions before the rating can be very fruitful if everybody has a short   time slot to present their ideas to clarify open questions from the audience . And finally , after the   ratings , we always have a clear structure with categorized ideas where we have a common sense and   with the rating already reached a prioritization out of our group discussion .
### Output: 