Starting a new venture is very challenging because of the wide variety of tasks. The best known social innovators, business ventures seeking to change the way groups interact, introduced a simple idea that fundamentally changed the game such as Facebook or Twitter (see a great interview with Frances Westley about the difference between Social Innovations versus Social Enterprises here). Other Social Innovators rely on the social network itself to build the change it wants to be. There are many other business models. One that CTASIT is well-positioned to take advantage of to help build capacity are the students that use the system. In particular, business school students would be ideal to help ‘Co-create’ the Social Learning Information Platform’s marketing and technical documents.
There is a long history in business schools of competitions to give the best entrepreneurial pitch, business plan, etc. How can CTASIT best utilize such a b-school resource? What should the prize be, or more to the point how much should the prize be?
Here are a few competitions we could run:
- Student user-guide videos and documentation;
- Instructor ‘Learning Analytics’ guide and video (is there a graduate level IS class?)
- Other ideas?
