Assignment Paper

1. Concept and Visions (10%)
Identify your theme and briefly describe a specific issue (problem or area for improvement) linked to this theme. Describe a product, service, or process linked to this issue that you would like to innovate, outlines a brief description of limitations to current specification, functions, uses, and benefits if improving an existing product/service.

2. Generating Knowledge and Awareness (10%)
Relate how you became aware of this issue and how you increased your knowledge of this issue. Test your (OAP) idea by talking to at least ten potential users, customers, and partners, document these discussions, and share what you learned.

3. Generating Ideas (10%)
In formulating your creative and innovative concept, apply at least two of the Tools & Techniques to actively generate ideas (Brainstorming, Analogy, Attribute Analysis, Gap Analysis, and Why-Why-Why Analysis). Present your findings and outputs from this activity (in an appendix if necessary) and analyse these findings and outputs in the body of the report.

4. Approach to Innovation (10%)
Based on the idea generation outputs and findings, develop a proposal for how you would like to innovate the product, service, or process. Detail which aspects of the product, service, or process you propose to change and why. (Specify the ‘Type of Innovation’; add images, sketches, diagrams, or graphs to illustrate your point). Describe how your proposed innovation would change the application (function / benefit / uses / users, etc.) of the product, service, or process.

5. Limitations (10%)
Classify and rate at least three potential risks or limitations to the implementation of your innovative concept.

6. Market Analysis. (10%)
What industry or sector of the economy are you addressing? Why is this market attractive? What segment of the overall market are you pursuing? What market research can be done to describe this market need? What are the total industry or category sales over the past three years? What is the anticipated growth for this industry? If this is a new market, what is the best analogous market data that illustrates the opportunity? Project the potential market size and growth for your opportunity.

7. Customers and Customer Development. (10%)
This is extremely important. You need to have a clear idea of who your target customer is. The only way for you to be able to do this is to “get out of the building” and speak with your potential customers. You will need to answer questions such as: What does the customer need? Why does the customer need it? What is the customer using today? What is the customer willing to pay for your solution? Why? How will you reach this customer? You should include both primary (or first-hand) research and secondary research, emphasizing primary over secondary.

8. Competition and Positioning. (10%)
Who else serves this customer need? Who might attempt to serve this market in the future? What advantages and weaknesses do these competitors and would-be competitors have? What share of the market do specific competitors serve? Are the major competitors’ sales growing, declining, or steady? What are the barriers to entry for you? What are the barriers to entry for additional competitors? How could partners and allies best help you overcome competition from established enterprises or other startups?

9. Business Model and Lean Startup Philosophy. (10%)
Now that you have discovered an opportunity and talked to potential customers, how will you turn it into a business? How will you make money and when do you expect your venture to be profitable? What is the major risk to address right away (e.g., market or technical)? In other words, which hypothesis regarding product or market strategies needs to be tested right away?

10. Learning and Adaptation (10%)
What did you learn between the time you chose the idea and wrote the first draft of the report and producing the final written report? Is this idea a true opportunity or not?

LSS2403 Activity Sheet

Week 9 Class 2

This activity is in relation to Step 1 of the recommended five basic steps in the process of analyzing an opportunity, as stated in the Project requirement:

1. Identify potential opportunities. Combine your own personal experiences and creativity with external forecasts and trend analysis.
Some guides:
• How is the world changing with respect to new technologies?
• What is the impact of globalization on current solutions?
• What new requirements will those changes produce?
• Recent media articles on trends are often a good place to start.

1. Concept and Visions
(a) Identify your theme and briefly describe a specific issue (problem or area for improvement) linked to this theme.

Your answer:

Our theme is:

– The theme is a Card issue

Briefly describe a specific issue (problem or area for improvement) linked to this theme:

– The problem is that the card in the hotel is not valid for work or does not work when we enter the room and this is the customer is not satisfied with the service because of the card that does not work

– An area of improvement is for the customer to have their own secret code or to have a key in place of the card

(b) Describe a product, service, or process linked to this issue that you would like to innovate, outlines a brief description of limitations to current specification, functions, uses, and benefits if improving an existing product/service.

People face a lot of problems while visiting hotels around the world, the access card is the common problem. When people stay in a hotel that have some technical issues with the access card the hotel will have bad feedback, so for that we come with a simple solution the hotel need to have a website for the customer and they need to add the link of the website on the back of the card, when ever a customer face any trouble with the card they need to visit the website to solve the issue

2. Generating Knowledge and Awareness
Relate how you became aware of this issue and how you increased your knowledge of this issue.

My friend Wedad faced this problem in the hotel and she came to us and told us about it.
We start asking the people if they faced this problem before and we noticed this problem is common.

Test your (OAP) idea by talking to at least ten potential users, customers, and partners, document these discussions, and share what you learned.

No. Name Initial Note on their respond:
1 Ahood Aljneibi Aljneibi She thinks they need to change the card in the hotel because the rate of hotel not became low when the card is not work
2 Anood Aljneibi Aljneibi She like the idea that for the customer create own code rather than card, because some people be angry when the cad is not work
3 Fatima Almehairbi It is much easier and it will save time.
4 Mariam Almehairbi More secure, flexible and I will not face the card problem
5 Sara student because I faced that I think the idea will fix many issues that annoying visitors, and also that would help the rates of the hotel and will receive more visitors

6 Mariam
student This idea is developed and easy to use, which will reduce the number of complaints about the hotel.

7 Shimma
student she thinks its clever idea and it will work
8 Ahlam student she thinks that it will be better if it was a spare code instead of website
9 Salma Student She told us “This will save times for the employees in the hotel”
10 Maryam Student She said that having a website that solve the card access bad idea because some people cannot read, or they don’t have internet so it will be hard for them to visit the website.

Group members participated in this activity (only names listed here will receive participation marks for today):

No. Name Student no.
1 Bahja hadi H00269742
2 Dhabya Ateeq H00366445
3 Wedad Aljneibi H00293470
4 Maitha Almansoori H00355880
5 Mahra Ahmed H00293446

SUBMIT BEFORE END OF CLASS – ON BBL.
NO MARKS FOR SUBMISSION RECEIVED AFTER THE CLASS HAS ENDED.

Opportunity Analysis Project

Project 2: Team Based
Worth 20%
Due Week 12
Part A: Written Report
Part B: Elevator Pitch

Our innovation is doing pin machine for door hotels if the card didn’t work, they write the pin, and the visitor choose the number that he wants.

Learning Outcomes Addressed

1. Students will examine the importance of entrepreneurial ecosystems and innovation clusters to healthy society and economies. LO2
2. Students will learn how to differentiate between an idea and a viable opportunity. LO4

Introduction
The Opportunity Analysis Project (OAP) allows students to leverage the many tools that they have learned so far in the course. By Session 11A/11B, study teams will develop a 3-page “story” and narrative regarding the OAP. During this session, student team should pick an idea and use the time in class to determine whether or not their idea is a true opportunity that can be turned into a scalable enterprise. You will make a presentation to your peers and develop a corresponding written report on your analysis and learning from contacting users, customers, and partners.

We recommend five basic steps in the process of analyzing an opportunity:
1. Identify potential opportunities. Combine your own personal experiences and creativity with external forecasts and trend analysis. How is the world changing with respect to new technologies? What is the impact of globalization on current solutions? What new requirements will those changes produce? Recent media articles on trends are often a good place to start.

2. Define your purpose and objectives. Identify your most promising opportunity, being careful to discriminate between an interesting technological idea and a viable market opportunity. Prepare an outline which will help you to determine what types of data and information you need to demonstrate the attractiveness of your chosen opportunity.

3. Gather data from primary sources. It is crucial for you to obtain data from primary sources. Potential investors will place more trust in well conducted primary research than in stacks of data from secondary sources. There is simply no substitute for talking to potential customers from the target market in order to validate the opportunity you have identified. Consequently, we prefer that you spend time gathering data from primary, not just secondary, sources. Past teams have found Survey Monkey to be helpful in gathering primary data. The basic service is free and provides most of the features you’ll need. Visit Survey Monkey at www.surveymonkey.com

4. Gather data from secondary sources. Countless secondary sources exist on the web and in various library resources. Try not to get too bogged down in financial and accounting data.

5. Analyze and interpret the results. Persuasively summarize your results. A key success factor for a successful project is the depth of your analysis and what you learned from it. If, after careful research, you have determined that your business idea is not as promising as you originally thought, it is acceptable to present an OAP that describes why your idea will not make sense now rather than why it is the next big thing. An honest, rigorous analysis of an idea that did not survive further scrutiny is preferable to either (a) a half-baked presentation of an idea your team is unsure of, or (b) an enthusiastic job of over selling your current idea, even though you know it is problematic.

Part A: Written Report – Worth 100 marks
Students should use the skills, knowledge, tools and techniques gained in the course (in weeks 1 – 11) to prepare a report on their innovative concept. The report must include the following sections:

1. Concept and Visions (10%)
Identify your theme and briefly describe a specific issue (problem or area for improvement) linked to this theme. Describe a product, service, or process linked to this issue that you would like to innovate, outlines a brief description of limitations to current specification, functions, uses, and benefits if improving an existing product/service.

2. Generating Knowledge and Awareness (10%)
Relate how you became aware of this issue and how you increased your knowledge of this issue. Test your (OAP) idea by talking to at least ten potential users, customers, and partners, document these discussions, and share what you learned.

3. Generating Ideas (10%)
In formulating your creative and innovative concept, apply at least two of the Tools & Techniques to actively generate ideas (Brainstorming, Analogy, Attribute Analysis, Gap Analysis, and Why-Why-Why Analysis). Present your findings and outputs from this activity (in an appendix if necessary) and analyse these findings and outputs in the body of the report.

4. Approach to Innovation (10%)
Based on the idea generation outputs and findings, develop a proposal for how you would like to innovate the product, service, or process. Detail which aspects of the product, service, or process you propose to change and why. (Specify the ‘Type of Innovation’; add images, sketches, diagrams, or graphs to illustrate your point). Describe how your proposed innovation would change the application (function / benefit / uses / users, etc.) of the product, service, or process.

5. Limitations (10%)
Classify and rate at least three potential risks or limitations to the implementation of your innovative concept.

6. Market Analysis. (10%)
What industry or sector of the economy are you addressing? Why is this market attractive? What segment of the overall market are you pursuing? What market research can be done to describe this market need? What are the total industry or category sales over the past three years? What is the anticipated growth for this industry? If this is a new market, what is the best analogous market data that illustrates the opportunity? Project the potential market size and growth for your opportunity.

7. Customers and Customer Development. (10%)
This is extremely important. You need to have a clear idea of who your target customer is. The only way for you to be able to do this is to “get out of the building” and speak with your potential customers. You will need to answer questions such as: What does the customer need? Why does the customer need it? What is the customer using today? What is the customer willing to pay for your solution? Why? How will you reach this customer? You should include both primary (or first-hand) research and secondary research, emphasizing primary over secondary.

8. Competition and Positioning. (10%)
Who else serves this customer need? Who might attempt to serve this market in the future? What advantages and weaknesses do these competitors and would-be competitors have? What share of the market do specific competitors serve? Are the major competitors’ sales growing, declining, or steady? What are the barriers to entry for you? What are the barriers to entry for additional competitors? How could partners and allies best help you overcome competition from established enterprises or other startups?

9. Business Model and Lean Startup Philosophy. (10%)
Now that you have discovered an opportunity and talked to potential customers, how will you turn it into a business? How will you make money and when do you expect your venture to be profitable? What is the major risk to address right away (e.g., market or technical)? In other words, which hypothesis regarding product or market strategies needs to be tested right away?

10. Learning and Adaptation (10%)
What did you learn between the time you chose the idea and wrote the first draft of the report and producing the final written report? Is this idea a true opportunity or not?

Grade Scale
Unacceptable
0 – 59 Minimum requirements
60– 64 Satisfactory
65-74 Above requirements
75-84 Outstanding
85-100
Errors so significant that the work is not passing quality Significant errors, information mostly unclear or incorrect Most information is correct and well-presented, with few errors Largely free of errors, demonstrates critical thought with well-explained coverage of all topics. Clear, well-explained, error-free work demonstrating critical thinking, with clear evidence of independent work and authentic research.

Grading Rubric
Report Contents Comments Marks
Awarded
1. Concept and Vision (10%)
• Student clearly identifies a theme and describe the specific issue (problem or area for improvement) linked to the theme.
• Student describes a product, service, or process linked to the issue they want to resolve.
• Student outlines a brief description of limitations to current specification, functions, uses, and benefits if improving an existing product/service. /10
2. Generating Knowledge and Awareness (10%)
• Student demonstrates awareness of the theme.
• Student highlights how they increased knowledge of the issue.Student tests their (OAP) idea by talking to at least ten potential users, customers, and partners, document these discussions, and share what they learned /10
3. Generating Ideas (10%)
• Student applies at least two of the Tools & Techniques to actively generate ideas (Brainstorming, Analogy, Attribute Analysis, Gap Analysis, and Why-Why-Why Analysis).
• Student presents findings and outputs from the activity (in appendices if necessary) and analyses the findings and outputs in the body of the report. /10
4. Approach to Innovation (10%)
• Based on the idea generation outputs and findings, student proposes how to innovate a product, service, or process.
• Students details which aspects of the product, service, or process to change and why. (Specify Schumpeter’s ‘Type of Innovation’ (e.g. new or improved, new process, new market, new materials, etc.)’; add images, sketches, diagrams, or graphs to illustrate point).
• Describe how your proposed innovation would change the application (function / benefit / uses / users, etc.) of the product, service, or process. /10
5. Limitations (10%)
• Student classifies and rates at least three potential risks or limitations to the implementation of the proposed innovative concept, and suggests mitigation. /10
6. Market Analysis (10%)
• Student discusses the industry and sector of the economy they are addressing.
• Student addresses market size, segmentation, growth for their opportunity /10
7. Customers and Customer Development (10%)
• Student discusses customer’s needs
• Student addresses what the customer is using today
• Student discusses what the customer is willing to pay
• Student discusses how to reach the customer
• Student includes primary and secondary research /10
8. Competition and Positioning (10%)
• Student discusses the competition
• Student discusses who else might serve this market in the future
• Student highlights barriers to entry /10
9. Business Model and Lean Start-up Philosophy. (10%)
• Student discusses how they will make money and when do you expect their venture to be profitable.
• Student discusses what the major risk to address right away is (e.g., market or technical). /10
10. Learning and Adaption (10%)
• Student discusses if the idea is a true opportunity
• Student discusses what they learned between the time they choose their idea and the final draft of the report
• Student addresses market size, segmentation, growth for their opportunity /10
Total Grade /100
 
Part B: Pitch / Presentation – worth 100 marks.
You will in this part do a “dragons den” style pitch that will last no more than 5 minutes. The pitch will be presented to the class / your team, who will then be given the opportunity to ask questions and give feedback, as well as questions from your assessor.

Marks will be awarded as follows: The content requirements and marks awarded will be as follows:

Project 2 – Opportunity Analysis Project/Pitch – 10%

1. Organization and Visuals
Pitch is organized with a clear introduction, body, and conclusion, with appropriate visual aids. Visual aid used is clear, lacks spelling mistakes, looks professional, applies to product type, and addresses target market. Pitch is organized, but needs more structure. Visual aids used could use some editing and improvement. Pitch lacks organization or structure. Visual aids used were not of any use or relevance.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

2. Understanding
Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the product, and its benefits. Product description is clear and concise. Product benefits summary is clearly presented. Product description and benefits were covered but needed elaboration. Product description has insufficient information. Product benefits were not covered.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

3. Research and ability to identify target market
Target market properly described and clearly identified with supporting evidence (primary and secondary research). Target market described and
identified but insufficiently. Target market not identified, or not properly described and researched.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

4. Idea Generation
Idea Generation usage
(Schumpeter/Discontinuous Innovation, Brainstorm, Analogy, Gap Analysis – at least two should be presented for minimum marks). One Idea Generation theory was applied. Idea Generation theories were not applied.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

 

5. Marketing Mix
Student demonstrated that they have conducted marketing research and showed the ability to tie these results to the business opportunity and its competitive advantage through the marketing mix (4P’s). Student Identified two research techniques and its results, then discussed how the research was conducted and linked to the marketing mix (4Ps) – (i.e. primary / secondary research methods).
Did not mention marketing research or the 4Ps and its impact on the business decision-making. Inappropriate or inadequate responses.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

6. Competition and Positioning
Student is able to list competitors/substitutes as brand or generic products/services and is able to explain how their offering is differentiated. Student is able to identify competitors in general
Did not mention competitions or substitution.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

7. Pricing Strategy
Student explained pricing strategy and initial pricing estimates with justification Student explained pricing strategy but did not cover pricing estimates Did not mention pricing strategy or pricing estimates
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

8. Presentation Skills
Student is not reading, has clear eye contact, and is clearly prepared. Student made eye contact every now and then, but needs more preparation. Student was not prepared and lacked self-confidence.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

9. Business Model
Student discusses how they will turn idea into business, how they will make money, when they will be profitable. Student touches on some aspects of the business model and isn’t realistic about the making money or profitability of the business. Business model and profitability were not addressed at all.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

10. Pitch Duration
4 to 5 minutes More than 5 minutes – had
to be stopped Less than 5
minutes – very short
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Total Marks: _____/100