Challenge 

 I was hired to build a new Practice in an area / domain in which the organization had very limited   experience . The key stakeholders needed to understand the facets covered in that domain , had a   high potential to be outsourced and were commercially viable for them to invest and grow . They   also needed to understand the current capability of the organization in terms of the number of   employees currently in the system with the required experience and the depth of their experience . 

 Selection 

 There were too many questions that the organization needed answered and we had taken the   primary research route to gather relevant data . The primary research led to a huge amount of data . I   needed to categorize that , discern it and share it in such a form with the business that they could   easily understand “ What Is ” . That would then form the foundation of next steps .   The stakeholders   were geographically spread , with varying backgrounds and skill - sets . Most of them had very limited   knowledge of the domain . This is why I chose “ Visualization ” to represent the findings and help   business get clarity on the answers they sought . 

 Application 

 The primary research done was two - fold , via online surveys with multiple - choice questions and tele- interviews with experts . The questions were planned but the answers , much like in any interview ,   were descriptive as against the online survey . There were common themes that were covered in   both the approaches , interviews gave more colour to the responses . 

 •   The first step that I took was to combine the responses to various themes from the surveys   and interviews ; and document the salient findings .    •   I then rated those findings in order of the possibility to be outsourced ( through primary   research set ) and ease of implementation ( my experience in the domain ) . The ease also took   into account the other set of data collected from internal stakeholders on existing   knowledge and experience . Thus , leading to be aware of the type of investments that would   be needed in people development / hiring .     •   Each category of tasks could lead to certain type of projects and thereby , revenue . The   potential revenue was stated against each task . This was to address the commercial viability .   This came about from the interviews as well as my prior experience in various organizations . 

 Based on all this data and to answer the critical business questions , I used two sets of visualization : 

 1 . Created a nine - blocker , where the x - axis depicted competitiveness and y - axis as ease of   outsourcing . Then placed the type of projects in the domain in each of those nine blocks .   This helped stakeholders to understand the playing field , especially since they did n’t know   the domain very well . In this visual representation , brief statements ( 4 - 5 words ) were stated   to convey “ what ” of the task .   2 . Created a 2x2 matrix leading to four quadrants where the x - axis moved from left to right in   order of attractiveness to the organization and y - axis as the effort needed . The   attractiveness was pertinent as the skills needed to augment the current offering and   continue to remain competitive in the market . The projects were plotted in form of circles   and the size of each circle was in line with its revenue potential . 

 Insight 

 This visual representation gave the stakeholders in two slides four key inputs : 

 1 . What encompassed this new territory   2 . What was easily outsourced to businesses like theirs   3 . What tasks helped to stay or increase the competitiveness in the domain   4 . How much revenue they were set to gain if they were to develop / invest in these areas   5 . How much effort is involved . This part was then further addressed to state the phased   development of the skills in the organization . 

 Approach 

 Visualization helped all types of stakeholders understand and there were supporting slides that were   more textual in nature , should anyone feel the need to go deeper . I had to go through a couple of   iterations to depict in the manner that I finally did . If I look back , would have augmented it with   “ storytelling ” to state where the industry was headed with the use of technology and skills in the   domain to drive the point home even more strongly . 


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 was hired to build a new Practice in an area / domain in which the organization had very limited   experience . The key stakeholders needed to understand the facets covered in that domain , had a   high potential to be outsourced and were commercially viable for them to invest and grow . They   also needed to understand the current capability of the organization in terms of the number of   employees currently in the system with the required experience and the depth of their experience . 

 Selection 

 There were too many questions that the organization needed answered and we had taken the   primary research route to gather relevant data . The primary research led to a huge amount of data . I   needed to categorize that , discern it and share it in such a form with the business that they could   easily understand “ What Is ” . That would then form the foundation of next steps .   The stakeholders   were geographically spread , with varying backgrounds and skill - sets . Most of them had very limited   knowledge of the domain . This is why I chose “ Visualization ” to represent the findings and help   business get clarity on the answers they sought . 

 Application 

 The primary research done was two - fold , via online surveys with multiple - choice questions and tele- interviews with experts . The questions were planned but the answers , much like in any interview ,   were descriptive as against the online survey . There were common themes that were covered in   both the approaches , interviews gave more colour to the responses . 

 •   The first step that I took was to combine the responses to various themes from the surveys   and interviews ; and document the salient findings .    •   I then rated those findings in order of the possibility to be outsourced ( through primary   research set ) and ease of implementation ( my experience in the domain ) . The ease also took   into account the other set of data collected from internal stakeholders on existing   knowledge and experience . Thus , leading to be aware of the type of investments that would   be needed in people development / hiring .     •   Each category of tasks could lead to certain type of projects and thereby , revenue . The   potential revenue was stated against each task . This was to address the commercial viability .   This came about from the interviews as well as my prior experience in various organizations . 

 Based on all this data and to answer the critical business questions , I used two sets of visualization : 

 1 . Created a nine - blocker , where the x - axis depicted competitiveness and y - axis as ease of   outsourcing . Then placed the type of projects in the domain in each of those nine blocks .   This helped stakeholders to understand the playing field , especially since they did n’t know   the domain very well . In this visual representation , brief statements ( 4 - 5 words ) were stated   to convey “ what ” of the task .   2 . Created a 2x2 matrix leading to four quadrants where the x - axis moved from left to right in   order of attractiveness to the organization and y - axis as the effort needed . The   attractiveness was pertinent as the skills needed to augment the current offering and   continue to remain competitive in the market . The projects were plotted in form of circles   and the size of each circle was in line with its revenue potential . 

 Insight 

 This visual representation gave the stakeholders in two slides four key inputs : 

 1 . What encompassed this new territory   2 . What was easily outsourced to businesses like theirs   3 . What tasks helped to stay or increase the competitiveness in the domain   4 . How much revenue they were set to gain if they were to develop / invest in these areas   5 . How much effort is involved . This part was then further addressed to state the phased   development of the skills in the organization . 

 Approach 

 Visualization helped all types of stakeholders understand and there were supporting slides that were   more textual in nature , should anyone feel the need to go deeper . I had to go through a couple of   iterations to depict in the manner that I finally did . If I look back , would have augmented it with   “ storytelling ” to state where the industry was headed with the use of technology and skills in the   domain to drive the point home even more strongly .
### Output: 