| Date | Milestone | Topic | Meetings | Reading | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Domain Investigation, Development of Design Principles | 8 | 1 | ||||
| Focus: Domain understanding, innovation | |||||||
| Skills: | |||||||
| Stanford/IDEO methodology of innovation | |||||||
| Research skills | |||||||
| Team skills | |||||||
| Web collaboration | |||||||
| Activities: | |||||||
| Jan 7 | Introduction and organization | ||||||
| Jan 9 - Jan 28 | Generate and prioritize research questions | ||||||
| Perform research and conduct interviews | |||||||
| Report back, discuss, and evaluate findings | |||||||
| Jan 30 | 0 | Feedback from advisors on domain research and proposed design principles | |||||
| Jan 30 | 1 | Team consensus on design principles | |||||
| 2. | Development of Initial Design of Product and Business Plan | 6 | 2 | ||||
| Focus: Social entrepreneurship | |||||||
| Skills: | |||||||
| Business skills | |||||||
| Project management | |||||||
| Writing skills | |||||||
| Presentation skills | |||||||
| Activities: | |||||||
| Feb 4 - Feb 13 | Develop briefing book of research findings | ||||||
| Develop initial design for product and business plan | |||||||
| Feb 18, Feb 20 | 2 | Presentations to advisory board of initial design of product and business plan | |||||
| 3. | Development of Final Design of Product and Business Plan | 6 | 3 | ||||
| Focus and Skills: Testing and iterative improvement | |||||||
| Activities: | |||||||
| Feb 25 - Mar 11 | Improve briefing book of research findings | ||||||
| Test and improve design for product and business plan | |||||||
| Mar 13 | 3 | Presentation to advisory board of final design of product and business plan, Team dinner | |||||
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| Total: | 20 | ||||||
Last modified: 2003 Feb 24