Assignment 3 2017 – Design your business: Difference between revisions
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*The report should be developed based on our '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_17814_download&client_id=hfwu business plan template]''' | *The report should be developed based on our '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_17814_download&client_id=hfwu business plan template]''' | ||
*The final presentation will be done with a PPT presentation. The presentation needs to be submitted before 02.05.2017 and presented on the following day. | *The final presentation will be done with a PPT presentation. The presentation needs to be submitted before 02.05.2017 and presented on the following day. | ||
*Prepare your presentation for '''3rd of May''' with this PPT template ' | *Prepare your presentation for '''3rd of May''' with this '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_17815_download&client_id=hfwu PPT template]''' | ||
*There will be an invidiual upload area for submitting the reports, you will not be asked to put this material on the wiki | *There will be an invidiual upload area for submitting the reports, you will not be asked to put this material on the wiki | ||
*Report submission deadline is '''Friday, 15th of May 2017''' | *Report submission deadline is '''Friday, 15th of May 2017''' | ||
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Time frame
- Group work: 13.04. – 19.05.2017
- Presentation: 02.05.2017 during plenary session
--> students participating in the intensive programme in Arnhem are doing this assignment as part of the workshop
Task description
- What if your team became a company? You have now a common understanding of the challenge; you know about various social business cases, you are aware of business models: Now you can design your own business!
- In your team you are going to think yourself through all the relevant steps required for starting a business such as: a business plan, a financing concept, a marketing scheme.
- But most importantly: share and communicate a vision of how things can be changed and why!
- Your findings will be presented to the plenary on 02.05.2017
- Your report will be submitted on Friday, 19.05.2017
Submission format and presentation
* Part One - Group work(Pass/Fail):
- Executive summary
- Social enterprise mission and goal
- Target market
- Products and services, key activities (value propositions)
- Channels
- Management team and other key resource requirements
- Financial summary
* Part Two – Individual work (Graded)
- Operational and management plan (compulsory)
- Partner and stakeholder network (compulsory)
- Marketing plan (optional, for “very good+” up to “excellent”)
- Financial plan (compulsory)
- Social/ environmental impact (compulsory)
Masters students only:
- Social enterprise: social and ethical values
- Risk management
Templates and formats
- The report should be developed based on our business plan template
- The final presentation will be done with a PPT presentation. The presentation needs to be submitted before 02.05.2017 and presented on the following day.
- Prepare your presentation for 3rd of May with this PPT template
- There will be an invidiual upload area for submitting the reports, you will not be asked to put this material on the wiki
- Report submission deadline is Friday, 15th of May 2017
Evaluation criteria
- Timely submission of deliverables
- Creativity and innovation of business model and change theory
- Extend to which the proposal meets the criteria of a social business (i.e. explicit social and/or environmental aims in combination with commercial, revenue-generating activities)
- Completeness, depth and formal correctness of required elements
- Visible synergy of project team
- Quality of documentation
- Quality of oral presentation (i.e. keeping time limits, clarity, expression, quality of presentation slides)