Reflection – Learning Launch 

 Challlange & selection 

 I am a consultant for a Dutch company . The company is publicly orientated and focusses on social   housing , social real - estate , local government , schools and healthcare . I work for the business unit   social housing . Our focus areas for the next two years are the Dutch energy transition and data . My   job will be to consult companies on how to make better business decisions threw mining and   analyzing data . Since this is a non - existing area within our company we have to make our clients   aware of wat we are doing . For this we are using a platform build by the business unit focusing on   local government . The platform is build to visualize for instance key performance indicators and .   My   management want me to sell this to as much as possible . We do not even know if our sector wants   what we build and pay what we are asking . For this reason I selected the Learning Launch . 

 According to Ed Hesse , in the video the Learning Launch , the learning launch is a method to swiftly   and cheaply test your ideas by doing small experiments . 

 Application 

 For the learning launch we decided to test our ideas rather than starting to sell the product at hand .   even though we had a proof of concept in a other market segment , we started to test our product by   talking to CEO ’s and managers and validate our assumptions . After we had a good understanding of   the needs we looked for a company willing to let us build it with them and both learn from the   process . So   we started with a pilot .   The pilot contained producing a full BI platform working   according to the specifications and needs of this customer . After completing we talked to more   different CEO ’s and managers to show and check if the platform build in the pilot would also fill their   needs . 

 Insight 

 The insight we gained was that , we made a assumption that our BI platform could exactly be copied   to this market segment . But the companies needs where actually different . Instead of focusing only   on budgets and policies the social housing needed more insight in in key performance / result   indicators . This was a different approach of reviewing the results . 

 Design thinking made me look in a different way to approach our problem at hand . I realize that I do   not have mastered all the skills yet to use design thinking and it is a learning process which will take   me some time to master . But by using the methods at hand and reflection and evaluating the   processes that have to be taken finally it will become a way of thinking and solving solutions 

 Approach 

 Next time I will start with the same tool . The way of learning and collecting a lot of data in a short   period of time is very valuable for me and our company . I also noticed that the company where we   did the pilot really appreciated it . It also gave them a lot of insights in what BI could do for their   company . 


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 – Learning Launch 

 Challlange & selection 

 I am a consultant for a Dutch company . The company is publicly orientated and focusses on social   housing , social real - estate , local government , schools and healthcare . I work for the business unit   social housing . Our focus areas for the next two years are the Dutch energy transition and data . My   job will be to consult companies on how to make better business decisions threw mining and   analyzing data . Since this is a non - existing area within our company we have to make our clients   aware of wat we are doing . For this we are using a platform build by the business unit focusing on   local government . The platform is build to visualize for instance key performance indicators and .   My   management want me to sell this to as much as possible . We do not even know if our sector wants   what we build and pay what we are asking . For this reason I selected the Learning Launch . 

 According to Ed Hesse , in the video the Learning Launch , the learning launch is a method to swiftly   and cheaply test your ideas by doing small experiments . 

 Application 

 For the learning launch we decided to test our ideas rather than starting to sell the product at hand .   even though we had a proof of concept in a other market segment , we started to test our product by   talking to CEO ’s and managers and validate our assumptions . After we had a good understanding of   the needs we looked for a company willing to let us build it with them and both learn from the   process . So   we started with a pilot .   The pilot contained producing a full BI platform working   according to the specifications and needs of this customer . After completing we talked to more   different CEO ’s and managers to show and check if the platform build in the pilot would also fill their   needs . 

 Insight 

 The insight we gained was that , we made a assumption that our BI platform could exactly be copied   to this market segment . But the companies needs where actually different . Instead of focusing only   on budgets and policies the social housing needed more insight in in key performance / result   indicators . This was a different approach of reviewing the results . 

 Design thinking made me look in a different way to approach our problem at hand . I realize that I do   not have mastered all the skills yet to use design thinking and it is a learning process which will take   me some time to master . But by using the methods at hand and reflection and evaluating the   processes that have to be taken finally it will become a way of thinking and solving solutions 

 Approach 

 Next time I will start with the same tool . The way of learning and collecting a lot of data in a short   period of time is very valuable for me and our company . I also noticed that the company where we   did the pilot really appreciated it . It also gave them a lot of insights in what BI could do for their   company .
### Output: 