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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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