Name Roderick Arvin Cortes NetID Rcor496 Group Number: 399 Website Link: http://infosys1102014fcgroup399.blogspot.co.nz/ Tutorial Details Tutor: Day: Time: Mira Lee Tutor Friday 11am Time Spent on Assignment: 18 hours Word Count: 1614
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2 THE COMMUNITY FLIPBOARD APP INTRODUCTION Our app is based on an assumption that many young individuals nowadays do everything online. Everyone seems to be socializing on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and many other kinds of social media. We want people to go back outside and create memmories with people from their own community. Memmories that will shape individuals and give them life skills that they'll need for the workforce. 3. BUSINESS SECTION 3.1 Vision Our vision is to provide easy access for young individuals to connect with the community so that they may gain the life skills that they'll need for the workforce. 3.2 Industry Analysis: Job Searching App Market Industry Industry: Job Searching App Market Industry The app market industry consists of many different useful apps so we narrowed it down to a specific category that suits the purpose of our app. Force: High/Low: Justification: Buyer power: High Doyle talks about the numerous different job searching apps that are currently available on the market. Each app has its functionalities and it's really up to the buyer to select which App best caters their needs. (Alison Doyle. 2014.) Supplier power: Low In the news article, Tweney talks about how mobile app growth is increasing dramatically. This encompases all kinds of apps including job
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3 searching apps. (Tweney. 2013.) With multiple apps being made supplier power would be low. Threat of new entrants: High A job searching app would be classified as a basic table functionality. In this case Thomas esitmates that creating such an app will only cost around $ 1,000 - $ 4,000. (Thomas. 2014) Threat of substitutes: High There are numerous other alternatives to job searching apps some examples would be applying online, looking for jobs on classified ads, and finding employment agencies. (Alison Doyle. 2014.) Rivalry among existing competitors: High Many job searching apps are constantly updating their functionalities in order to attract customers and retain their current customers. Overall attractiveness of the industry: The industry is unattractive as firms compete in creating similar apps with unique functionalities. Many other new firms can easily enter the market and existing firms can easily add and change their functionalities to cater to their customers' wants. 3.3 Customers and Thei r Needs Our main customers would be young individuals looking to participate in the workforce. On a telephone survey conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates Internatoinal, one of the conclusions was that: "Nine in ten 18-29 year olds own a cell phone, and these young cell owners are significantly more likely than those in other age groups to engage in all of the mobile data applications we asked about in our survey" (Smith. 2010.) These would include students who would be looking for a suitable part-time job or wanting to gain
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4 experience at an early age or students who are at university and seeking to gain the experience they need for the future. 3.4 The Product and Service Our product will contain a unique user interface that is simple to use. Brian talks about the importance of a good user interface as it gives users an impression of how efficient and effective our app would be. (Brian. 2011.) This is similar to the technology of Flipboard in which users would drag out categories that interest them and simply scroll through different events and opportunities that are related to the categories they have selected. Each page would contain a picture and brief description of the event and once selected would lead to the full page with more information about the event including methods of joining or applying. Another key to the success of this product would have to be the constant availability and variety of different activities and events that users can choose to participate. These would have to be constantly updated by a team that conducts intensive research throughout the community and by local businesses that post up their own ads for part-time employees. 3.5 Suppliers and Partners One of our main suppliers would have to be an app development company that can create this app and bring this idea into the job searching app market. An example would be the Mobile App Experts. This company has created multiple apps, has more than 250 clients and has 7 years of experience in developing apps. Another supplier would have to be a research company like The Research Agency. They would search and find local businesses that would want to advertise different vacancies or different events hosted by different members in the community e.g church events, volunteer agencies. One of our main partners would be Seek (www.seek.co.nz). Seek is an online job searching agency and partnering with them will gives our app access to different available part-time
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5 jobs that are users can apply and join. If our client base grows Seek will also gain recognition and more potential clients for their service too. Another partner could be HR firms like Kinteic Recruitment. They could provide us with young individuals that are looking for firms. Our app could benefit their clients by providing them with opportunities to find work or activities in which they can further develop their life skills. 3.6 Strategy: Focused Low Cost Our strategy is Focused low cost as our aim target market is only a group of young individuals instead of the general public. We would make our app free or charge a low cost to attract young individuals as most don't have the funds to pay for an expensive app. 3.7 Value Chain Activity: Service After Sale The most important value chain activity for this business is Service after sale. Getting the ideas and feedback from our current users will help us adjust and change our app to tailor to our satisfied customers. They can also give feedback about local businesses that participate and rate the level of experience that they recieve from jobs and activities they joined. 3.8 Business Processes 3.8.1. CUSTOMER FEEDBACK PROCESS - When we recieve customer feedback we categorize it into 2 different groups: software related and business related. The business related feedback undergoes a data managment system in which raw data is categorized and sorted into recommendations and ratings for jobs and events. The suggestions are immediately stored into the database for future use while the technical issues are sent to our IT department which try and solve customers problems with the app. Once solved these technical issues are stored in the database for future reference.
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3.8.2. SOFTWARE UPDATING PROCESS - The software updating process involves retrieving suggestions and issues that are stored in the database. If the suggestion is a viable change that our users want or if the issue is a problem with our app then we pass it on to the IT department who makes the changes using a remote maintenance system. Once it's complete, it undergoes a beta testing system. We then create update logs showing the changes we've made for other users once we release the final product.
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8 3.9 Functionalities 3.9.1. CUSTOMER FEEDBACK PROCESS Storing software related feedback into seperate categories for future use. Automatically updating feedback into recommendations for specific businesses and events. 3.9.2. SOFTWARE UPDATI NG PROCESS Categorizing and transforming stored data to information which the IT deparmnet can use. Compiling changes into an update list for users. 3.10 Systems
3.10. 1 DATA MANAGMENT SYSTEM - The system takes business feedback and sorts them to their respective jobs and events that users reviewed then creates a rating based on the number of positive feedback to aid new users in making decisions. 3.10. 2. REMOTE MAINTENANCE SYSTEM - Since the developers are from another country we use a remote maintenance system which allows them to access our database to aid them in making changes and repairs to the app to satisfy our users' requests. 3.10. 3. BETA TESTING SYSTEM - We gather loyal users to test out the app before we release it into the market. They test out the new changes and give us an idea on what to change and edit in the app to ensure that users are satisfied with changes. This incorperates users the production and development of our app.
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9 3.11. Summary Table: Value Chain to Systems
Value Chain Activity Processes Functionalities Specific Information System(s) Broad Information System(s)
Service after sale 1. Customer feedback process 1. Storing software related feedback into seperate categories for future use.
2. Automatically updating feedback into recommendations for specific businesses and events.
Database managment system
Customer Relationship managment
2. Software updating system 1. Categorizing and transforming stored data to information which the IT deparmnet can use.
2. Compiling changes into an update list for users.
Remote maintenance system
Beta testing system Supply chain managment
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10 CONCLUSION The community flipboard app was designed and created to aid our users to find jobs and activities that can teach them the skills they need for the workforce. In order to achieve that we rely on their feedback to make decisions on how it looks, how it works and how effective each activity and job is on the users. We want to establish this app as an ever changing app that changes with the generation. REFERENCES
1. Alison Doyle. (2014). iPhone and iPad Apps for Job Seekers. Retrieved from http://jobsearch.about.com/od/jobsearchtools/a/iphoneapps.htm
2. Dylan Tweney. (2013). Mobile app growth exploding, and shows no signs of letting up. Retrieved from http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/10/state-of-the-apposphere/
3. Carter Thomas. (2014). How much does it cost to develop an app?. Retrieved from http://www.bluecloudsolutions.com/blog/cost-develop-app/
4. Alison Doyle. (2014). How to Find a Job. Retrieved from http://jobsearch.about.com/od/jobsearchhelp/a/findajob.htm
5. Aaron Smith. (2010). Mobile Access 2010. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/files/old- media//Files/Reports/2010/PIP_Mobile_Access_2010.pdf
6. Matt Brian. (July 2011). Mobile Apps: A look at what makes a good app great. Retrieved from http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/07/16/mobile-apps-a-look-at- what-makes-a-good-app-great
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