Social entrepreneurship/SSE Quest Matrix
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This is a "straw dog" outline used in a brainstorming session about the development of a system to support students through the social entrepreneurship learning process. The system takes the form of a game for which there is also a draft narrative.
Type classification: this is a game resource. |
Getting Started
editQ# | Phase | Action/Quest | Cost | Reward/ category | Comments |
1.1 | Prepare your venture | Form a venture | 25000 ZAK | 25000 ZAK
1000 in Power |
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1.2 | Prepare your venture | Hire Employees/Join the team? | $
Partnering |
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1.3 | Identify your affiliate organization | Identify your community and affiliate organization and then request a meeting. Meet the potential affiliate organization(s) – visit to the community and write rationale for choice of organization. | Partnering | Data. Would there be a drop down menu with communities and NGOs to review. | |
1.4 | Provide data on affiliate organization | Fill in basic data on affiliate organization – contact name, email, etc. | Data contribution | Data. Need to identify basic info from Jean’s data. | |
1.5 | Understand your affiliate organization | Create/update development priorities for partner organization (ie NGO or school, etc). | Define demand | Text or Data? |
Understand your Community
editQ# | Phase | Action/Quest | Cost | Reward/ category | Comments |
2.1 | Understand your community | Produce a community profile. | Data contribution
Define Demand |
Text or Data. Should be a standard questionnaire that students could fill out on line? Instead of text) | |
2.2 | Understand your community | Provide Google Map link to your community. | Data
Marketing |
Media. How will this map be linked from the game? | |
2.3 | Understand your community | Research the latest news coming out of your community and post it in the news section. | Data
Marketing |
Link or Text. Do we have a news section? | |
2.4 | Understand your community | Find one of the “best” things in your community and take a photo of it and post it here. | Define Demand
Data Marketing? |
Media. Where will users post pictures? In a news gallery? In a media archive? | |
2.5 | Understand your community | Find something in your community that outrages you and that you want to change. Take a photo and post it here. | Define Demand
Data Marketing |
Media. | |
2.6 | Understand your community | Find a community leader and interview her. Post the interview (not more than 5 minutes if audio or video) here. | Partnering
Data |
Text or Media. | |
2.7 | Understand your community | Research the history of your community and post a blog entry | Data | Text or Link? | |
2.8 | Understand your community | Post the GPS position of your partner organization. | Data | Data. Can this also be linked to the google map activity or google earth? |
Define the Problem
editQ# | Phase | Action/Quest | Cost | Reward/ category | Comments |
3.1 | Define the Problem
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Post the problem in the community that your company will address in the form of a problem statement | Define Demand | Text. We can develop template with Who, When, Where, What and Why questions? | |
3.2 | Define the Problem | Research the Millennium Development Goals and determine if your challenge addresses one of these goals | Data | Data. | |
3.3 | Problem identification | Define ideal best case scenario in world in which problem does not exist. | Define Demand
Innovation |
Text. Blog Entry | |
3.4 | Problem Identification | What is the market for your solution in your community/S. Africa/Africa/World. Post blog entry with a statement on the extent of the problem. | Define Demand. | Text. Data? Do we want data fields for community, country, and global impact? |
Solution
editQ# | Phase | Action/Quest | Cost | Reward/ category | Comments |
4.1 | Propose | Propose a solution for the challenge you have identified. | $ | Text. | |
4.2 | Assess | The solution is something that builds on another idea. What is unique about this idea and how does it improve what has been done before. | Innovation | Text | |
4.3 | Assess | The solution is entirely new. What’s new about what you are doing? What are people forced to do now because what you plan to make does not yet exist. | Innovation | Text | |
4.4 | Assess | You are proposing an innovative idea to an intractable problem. Share what other solutions to this problem are failing. | Innovation
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Text | |
4.5 | Assess | What do you understand about your idea and challenge that others trying to solve the problem just don’t get. | Innovation | Text | |
4.6 | Assess | Research what others are doing to try to solve the problem you have identified. | Partnering
Research |
Text, Data? | |
4.7 | Synergy | Be a broker -- Identify existing franchise/solution/organization that would help problem seeker and make connection. | Partnering | Text, Data? | |
4.8 | Scalability | How to take an existing solution to scale? | |||
4.9 | Collaborate | Connect to others. Review what others in the game have defined as their problems and see if you can support their solutions. | Partnering | ||
4.10 | Technology | Modern technologies to help implement solution. | Innovation | Text | |
4.11 | Prototype | Prototype the idea | Innovation | ??? |
Evaluation
editQ# | Phase | Action/Quest | Cost | Reward/ category | Comments |
5.1 | Success Indicators | Define the key performance indicators by which your solution will be evaluated. | Data
Define Demand |
Text, Data? | |
5.2 | How will these be measured and how often? | Data
Define Demand |
Text, Data? | ||
5.3 | How does your affiliate organization and/or your end user define success? | Partnering
Define Demand |
Text, Data? |
Raise Awareness
editQ# | Phase | Action/Quest | Cost | Reward/ category | Comments |
6.1 | Video | Produce a video to attract investors in your idea. | Partnering
Marketing |
Media | |
6.2 | Links | Paste a link to your social network on Facebook; My Space, etc. | Partnering
Marketing |
Link | |
6.3 | Branding | Do you or someone on your team have artistic talent? Create a logo for your venture that expresses who you are and what you hope to accomplish. | Innovation
Marketing |
Media | |
6.4 | Share | Are you ready to share your idea with the world? If so, go to a free web hosting site and create your company website. Put together at least one page that highlights who you are and what you do. | Innovation
Marketing |
Link | |
6.5 | Look out at the field of players who are working to affect change. Who are your competitors? Who are your collaborators? List at least three potential competitors and collaborators for the product or service that you are developing. | Define Demand
Partnering Marketing |
Text |
Financial Viability
editThis is one component designed to encourage students to think and plan realistically. The degree of long term financial viability will vary per project. For some the objective might not be to establish a long term viable business.
Q# | Phase | Action/Quest | Cost | Reward/ category | Comments |
7.1 | Resources | What resources will be needed to develop and implement your idea – plan resources (people, materials, funds, ...). | Viability | Template – Data? | |
7.2 | Finance | Does your venture have a for-profit aspect? Is there a strong market and demand for your idea? If so, how will you make maintain viability? | Viability | Text | |
7.3 | Finance | Price point and number of clients | Viability
Define Demand |
Text, Data? | |
7.4 | Finance | Describe the main reasons why you believe this business is viable and will successfully compete against competitive products (identify your competitive advantage). | Viability | Text | |
7.5 | Finance | Not-for profit income | Viability | Text | |
7.6 | Finance | Many international donors such as the Gates Foundation or Private Companies provide financing for good ideas. Which ones do you think would be interested in your idea? Provide a list of at least five donors and the reason why they would be interested in funding your idea. | Viability | Text or Data? | |
7.7 | Human Resources | What skills do you need to make this idea flourish. Brainstorm the type of people that you will need to add to your organization and the skill that they would need to bring. | Viability | Text, Template |
Final Result/Output/Goal
editQ# | Phase | Action/Quest | Cost | Reward/ category | Comments |
8.1 | Thriving Community, Project/Business Plan, Social change, etc. |