List the top 20 questions your team needs to answer to advance the venture forward. Categorize the questions if necessary.
- What are we impacting?
- How are we impacting?
- Where/why are we impacting?
- What makes copra so important?
- How many lives can we impact?
- How will our work have an impact outside of the Philippines?
- What are the different ways we can have an impact?
- How do we make our impact sustainable?
- How do we quantify impact?
- Can we generate a negative impact as well?
- Will the people in the Philippines be open to our ideas?
- What we be the obstacles that prevent us from making an impact?
- How long until we are able to deliver impact?
- How will we adopt their cultural habits?
- What are people doing to create an impact now?
- Who are these people?
- How personal is the process to them?
- How do adjust our solution to their culture?
- How can we make people happy?
- How can we improve ourselves through this project?
Develop and Visualize the Theory of Change (Logic Model) for your venture.
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– Clearly list all assumptions.
- Assume our project will be successful
- Assume we will finish the research by this spring semester
- Assume that we will have a design/prototype by the end of the summer
- Assume that we can collaborate well with the UPD partners
- Assume that we can interview copra farmers
- Assume that we can adapt to a different culture and time zone
- Assume that we have four potential pathways to address the problem
– Identify short-term and long-term success metrics.
Short term: Reduced inconsistency in copra quality (overall quality increase).
Long term: Economic growth. Increased income for copra farmers.
– (Optional) identify specific methods to measure the metrics.
- Design, energy efficiency, and sustainability of the processing technique
- Amount of high-quality copra that can be produced using new methods
- Amount of additional income that can be generated for copra farmers
Great work on the questions list – you identify many important considerations. I would elaborate on the first few sections of your logic model.