Projects completed by Minor Course Students |
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Students prepare projects, based on their interest, in each of the courses of Minor. Output by the students are:
| Course |
Coverage (Details on Education page) |
Output from Students |
| Intro to Social Enterprises in India |
• Theory
• Case studies
• Guest lecture by practitioners
• Rural field visit / visit to SE is planned from next academic year |
Case studies |
| Product Design and Business Models |
• Creative Problem Solving
• Engineering Design and Prototyping
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance
• Business models and strategy |
Business plans |
| Laboratory based |
• Centre for Innovation Lab
• Review by practitioners |
Prototypes |
| Rural Field study |
• Rural visits
• Self help groups
• Participatory Learning and Action
• Review by domain experts |
Business plans |
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Course - Introduction to Social Enterprises in India |
Minor course students from undergraduate Engineering, MA Development Studies and MBA worked in groups to apply the concepts learnt during the course to prepare presentations on Social Enterprises.
| 2010 batch students prepared presentations on following Social Enterprises: |
| Amul |
d.light |
Satin Creditcare Network Limited |
| BASIX |
Free Rice.com |
Suminter India Organics |
| Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (Jaipur Foot) |
Industree |
Selco |
| Child Rights and You (CRY India) |
International Development Enterprises |
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| 2011 batch students prepared presentations on following Social Enterprises: |
| AHADS |
Conserve india |
Dristee |
Kiva |
| Avaaz.org |
Desi Crew |
Help Age India |
Lijjat Papad |
| Avanti Fellows |
DHAN Foundation |
IDEI |
Sammaan Foundation |
| Bandhan |
DREAM A DREAM |
KEGGFARMS |
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Student presentations are based on various management concepts and frameworks covered during the class, and on the morphology to review SE.
| Management concepts, frameworks applied |
Morphology for review of Social Enterprises |
• History, geographical distribution, progress with time
• Spirit of the organisation (Vision, Mission, Objectives)
• Intended beneficiary
• Value delivered
• Transaction flow diagram, revenue model
• Social impact (scale of impact)
• 6S framework (existential justification of organisation)
• SWOT analysis (design justification of organisation)
• Methodology (operations)
• Resources of organisation (HR, finance, Technology & infrastructure, Organisation Management & systems, Network & relationship)
• Structure of the organisation |
• Social Mission
• Vision explicitness
• Ownership (extent of accountability to target group)
• Innovation-centricity
• Target sector (primary, secondary, tertiary)
• Orientation to target group
• Enterprise orientation
• Mode of financing (self/donation/robin hood)
• Sources of investment
• Nature of outcomes (social value)
• Revenue generation
• Profit orientation
• Resourcefulness |
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Course - Product Design and Business Models |
Product considerations and design
Mission, Vision and objectives
Target Segment
Organisation Plan -
Structure of organisation,
Business Model
Marketing Plan,
Financial analysis,
SROI (Social Relevance of Innovation)
Following projects were prepared:
Carl Windbelts
Nidan - low cost point-of-care diagnostic tests involving minimal skills
Sparkoke -
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Course - Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (Laboratory based) |
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Course - Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (Rural Field study) |
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