produce TWO Project Logs, which are designed to help you gradually build up a portfolio which can be used to evidence your innovative thinking, research and strategic decisions within the context of your innovation.
Word Limit – 4000 Words
You are required to produce TWO Project Logs, which are designed to help you gradually build up a portfolio which can be used to evidence your innovative thinking, research and strategic decisions within the context of your innovation.
Project Log 1 A short introduction to the market contexts within which you would like to base your project. For example: which sector/industry? what products/services? what kinds of problem/issue that consumers have with the existing products or services? Why are you personally interested in this?
Produce an introduction to your proposed innovation. Explain how you have use specific creative thinking technique(s) to generate your innovation idea.
Provide a clear explanation of how your innovation works. For a product innovation that involves the use of any technologies, explain the technologies involved supported by all the technical and schematic details. For a service innovation, explain service processes involved, if relevant, supported by all the technical details and schematics of technologies involved. Remember that you can attach the extra technical and schematic details, diagrams, sketching in the appendices.
Produce a literature-informed explanation of a blue ocean strategy that can be used to achieve a new value curve for your chosen industry/market. Illustrate your Blue Ocean strategy on the Strategic Canvas. Explain why you have chosen the value factors used in your strategic canvas. Consider how your strategy produces a genuine Blue Ocean strategy, and justify your decision.
Project Log 2 Using the Essential Reading on Business Model and Value Proposition, produce a literature-informed discussion on the business model of your proposed innovation. Consider and justify how your business model will involve innovative strategic decisions on:
Customer Segments
Customer Relationships
Exceptional Buyer Utility
Channels
Revenue Streams and Strategic Pricing
Key Resources
Key Activities
Key Partnership
Cost Structure
You are also required to submit all the typed-up completed planning templates, which you have been given hard copies in class and electronic copies on. You will attach these as appendices at the back of your portfolio.
To do well, you must demonstrate a deep understanding of the relevant academic concepts and apply them accurately in your work. You are strongly encouraged to incorporate as many relevant materials as possible which may include: chapters of books, journal articles, internet sources, statistics, newspaper articles, images, drawings, diagrams and anything that you find useful in your project.
Anything attached in the Appendices is NOT part of the word count.
Submission Instructions:
Please make sure that you Page Number your work accurately.
Save your work into two MS WORD files: (1) Two Project Logs; and (2) Appendices.
