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Sunday, 24 January 2010 @ 11:18Written by Joanne Hughes

Hi All

The following blog is created for the North Shore Team in Product Development Course, Bus774.  Below are discussions that have occured in brainstorming customer needs & capabilities to develop our product.

Enjoy!

Team N.S.

Joanne Hughes      (Sunday, 7 February 2010 @ 12:26)

We are now have the ability to post on "Talk" as well... perhaps after the presentation and a formal review with Lisa.

Joanne Hughes      (Sunday, 7 February 2010 @ 12:20)

Part to: Primary markets • Not for profit entities on the North Shore with little to no in house IT expertise that require IT redesigns or new implementations • Entities with existing budgets available for spend in Q1, from 10k to 50k • Entities with windows based peer to peer networks or networks with no servers • Entities that require ONLY network, server, or telco/VOIP services Secondary markets • Not for profit entities in other lower mainland locations • Assumptions and constraints • Limited time available • The bounds of our expertise is both a limitation an assumption • Constrained by what existing IT infrastructure or systems the non-profits or clients currently have Stakeholders • CEO, Lisa Papania • Our team • Our clients (non profits)

Joanne Hughes      (Sunday, 7 February 2010 @ 12:19)

last week we spent some time hammering out a mission statement. I thought I would share the results with the blog: North shore group mission statement Product description • strategic IT infrastructure planning services Benefit proposition • provide knowledge & expertise that is not available in house • template based deliverable reduces costs and time to market • leverage best practices from previous engagements Key business goals • completed by the end of semester • quality is such that the recommendations are practical and feasible for implementation by a 3rd party IT consultant • cost is negligible • meet the criteria specified on inov8.ca to be continued...

Larry Lee      (Wednesday, 27 January 2010 @ 19:15)

Our team is currently in active discussion with the Harvest Project (http://www.harvestproject.org/). There is potentially a good fit there for us to provide IT Consulting, and perhaps implementation services. This is all dependent on time, and we are due to hear back from them by the end of this week.

Joanne Hughes      (Sunday, 24 January 2010 @ 12:01)

Just a quick note that Steve''s draft to customers posted was done during team meeting #3... so here is a bit of back-track (team please add items if I missed anything). Meeting History - Meeting #1 Sun. Jan 3rd Team met for first time to get to know each other to discuss what our interests, capabilities and possible customers could be. Some of the topics that came up were -non-profits in the NS area? -working with a charity fundraiser -any opportunities with the Olympics in town? ParaOlympics? -what are our capabilities & background & interests in the community -We seemed to have a similar interests of outdoors: mountain biking, hiking, dog walking -outdoor safety was a discussion -iPhone Apps with respect to safety; try to contact our friends who are app designers -create maps for new dog owners or mountain bikers Since the meeting was our first introduction together as a team, the meeting was concluded very open ended to brainstorm more and deliberate more ideas..

Aussie Steve      (Sunday, 24 January 2010 @ 11:35)

It would be great to talk to you to discuss your goals and potential ways in which we can help. Please keep in mind that we have to have the project completed by the end of March and therefore would have to discuss the potential projects in the next week. My teammates and I look forward to speaking with you.

Aussie Steve      (Sunday, 24 January 2010 @ 11:35)

Hey Team, This is an example of the first contact emails that we''re circulating to possible clients. Hello North Vancouver Outdoors Club Team, I''m an MBA student at Simon Fraser University currently completing a Product Development Module. I am working with a team of five other MBA students and we are looking for a non-profit organization to assist with a technology project this semester. I came across the North Vancouver Outdoors club website and wanted to see if you might be interested in working with us. We are interested in working with an organization involved in outdoors sports in North Vancouver. Our program specializes in technology and we''re all experts in our respective fields (IT managers, designers, programmers etc). We can offer a free service to do a range of projects. Some examples of our core competencies include: web redesigns, business consulting, networking, and IT strategy development.

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