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Assignment: Steps on the FairPhone Case Study

Part I: Complete the Paper

Throughout the course, you've crowdsourced ideas for the problem/opportunity statement, analysis, alternatives, and criteria, using design mindset and group activities. For each of these steps, you've integrated the insights from those activities and uploaded a draft for instructor review.

Now, you're putting it all together, along with the last couple of sections (recommendation, action plan) and an executive summary. Love what you've written so far? Want to change anything from previous steps? Go right ahead! Ideas and insights strike anytime. Just don't miss the deadline!

Required Sections and Format for Case Study Assignments:

Your written analysis should follow APA format and contain the following sections (Sections 3-11 should be level one headings in your paper):

A. Title page (in accordance with APA format)
B. Table of contents
C. Executive summary
D. Problem statement
E. Problem and Data analysis
F. Alternatives
G. Key decision criteria (here is an example of how to use a weighted criteria matrix
H. Alternatives analysis and evaluation
I. Recommendation
J. Action and implementation plan
K. Appendices (if any)
L. References

Part II: Powerpoint slides for the Presentations:

In this part, your job is to produce a presentation to propose an innovation team, using the best practices and principles for innovation from the sources in this course (and/or additional sources you find on your own). whose purpose is to implement the recommendation from your case analysis.

Create a story, following best practices in presentations, that will convince your senior-level leaders to support the creation of this team. Be creative! Tell YOUR story: why is this team and its work important?

Give your presentation a descriptive title, a main message, and a logical flow. This is an opportunity to practice creating awesome visual presentations, using everything you learned.

Purpose - you are designing a team to support the recommendation you came up with in your case analysis for this course. Make it the ideal team for this purpose; build in innovation best practices and principles.

Audience - the design brief is primarily for the upper-level managers or executives who will commission your team. Write it as a pitch for them to authorize creating (and funding) your team's work.

Topics to cover:

A. Describe the team's purpose or "why." What is its goal, what innovation is it implementing or supporting? How would you define its success?

B. Describe the role innovation will play in this unit's ability to meet its mission and/or goals, and why innovation is essential.

C. Describe the ideal size of your team (how many members).

D. Describe the ideal profile of the leader of this team: what leadership qualities must they have? What skills and abilities would best help support innovation?

E. Describe the ideal profile(s) of team members. How will you ensure diversity? what skill sets do members need to have?

F. Describe how you will ensure the team maximizes innovation in its structure: who will be in charge? How will it meet? How will new ideas be surfaced, analyzed, evaluated, and chosen?

G. Describe at least two innovation techniques and/or frameworks you recommend for this unit.

H. Include a slide that lists all sources used in the presentation, in APA format. Use at least 4 different sources.