Blog #11: AISHA Business Model

  1. From the social enterprises we reviewed today, or others you have studied, identify ten extremely specific strategies that you can leverage for your project. The strategies can be about the technology, the business model, access to capital, customer education, messaging, thought leadership, etc.
  1. Educating HCW about the devices
  2. Using WhatsApp to communicate with people in SL
  3. Apply for grants or proposals to supply our project
  4. Go through Khanjan for specific resources and interviews
  5. More research about Sierra Leone HC
  6. More research about Alexa devices in HC
  7. Start planning field work goals before the summer
  8. Creating a manual for Alexa devices for our targeted audience
  9. Conduct interviews to gain a more personal perspective of Sierra Leone HC
  10. Already done use cases that we can model after (either conceptually or literally with the algorithm itself) 

 

  1. Create a first draft of your business model using the business model canvas. Please be as specific as possible and explain why you picked those specific approaches for each of the building blocks.
  • Key partners
    • Local nurses/doctors
    • World Hope Organization
  • Key activities
    • What are we doing?
    • Provide standard treatment protocols
    • Answers to questions 
    • Active feedback to nurses/CHW 
  • Key resources 
    • Interviews
    • Flowchart of Diseases
  • Key propositions
    • Reduce patients waiting times
    • Reduce human error 
    • Reduce workload
    • Increases their confidence 
    • Reduces likelihood of misdiagnosis
  • Customer relationships 
    • Feedback form a few times a year 
      • Customer service 
  • Channels 
    • Word of mouth
    • Maybe the government? 
  • Customer segments
    • Local community health workers
    • Nurses
    • doctors
  • Cost structure
    • Converters
    • Internet! 
    • Alexas themselves 
  • Revenue streams 
    • Grants as main source of funding
    • Maybe sierra leone gov but likely not 
    • Publish skill on Alexa skill store and make profit off of it 
  1. Create a set of 2-4 slides to articulate your business model in a presentation. Come prepared to describe your business model in the next class.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1i2E1w3rmRACY46O3oIugfuxS8xwUq1BXtNrIUFvniSo/edit?usp=sharing