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

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Q# Phase Action/Quest Cost Reward/ category Comments
1.1 Prepare your venture Form a venture 25000 ZAK 25000 ZAK

1000 in Power

1.2 Prepare your venture Hire Employees/Join the team? $

Partnering

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

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Q# 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

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Q# Phase Action/Quest Cost Reward/ category Comments
3.1 Define the Problem


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

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Q# 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


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

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Q# 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

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Q# 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

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This 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

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Q# Phase Action/Quest Cost Reward/ category Comments
8.1 Thriving Community, Project/Business Plan, Social change, etc.