Team Project for June 26

1) This week we dug deeper into our specific companies and made phone calls and e-mails to companies. I found a lot of new and helpful information.
2) I made a lot of progress this week especially with the alliance that they wanted me to look into and for one of my other companies too. I found some connections that I think they will be interested in.
3) This week I learned that research can be rewarding and fun when you start to find information that will help your client. This next week I hope to be able to wrap up my research and start to finalize our document.

Team Project Report for Sat. June 18

1) Task: This week we focused on digging deeper into our projects. I looked up an alliance that our client wanted me to look into further.
2) Progress Made: We made a little more progress this week. I think our biggest help was meeting with our client last week. We found out that we need to be looking more into what kinds of testing our companies are doing and following any connections they have.
3) Learned: This week I learned that if we would have asked better questions in the first consultation then we would have been more on the track of where we should be. We are not that far off, but it would have been nice to be further along.

Team Project: June 12, 2010

1)Task: This week our task was to complete a report for our second consultation. We presented our rough draft to our client.
2)Progress: I feel that we made a lot of progress this week. This progress mostly came from incites and direction from our client. We have a better understanding of what we are looking for.
3)Learned: I learned that in order to present your client with valuable information you have to understand things about them and their business so that you can understand what would be valuable for them to know.

Saturday's post June 5, 2010- Team Project

1) Actual task completed: This week I researched about 10 companies. I looked for general information such as if they are publicly traded or privately held, the size of the company, their history and background information, and also what kind of company they are manufacturing or research.
2) Progress made: This week our team took the companies that we did background research on and chose 8 companies to do further research on.
3) I learned this week that when doing a competitive analysis you should first make a list of all the companies in that industry and then do a simple background check on them. Then choose a few that you want to go into further detail.