Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Business Idea and Market Opportunity

Phase 1
  • Target student count 3650
  • Target pre-schools, primary schools, creche etc. in metros(where purchasing power is high). They are least automated with zero or very low budget for IT spending.
  • Automate their operations for free using sophisticated web based tools. Provide all possible resources to help them achieving operational efficiencies. Please see use cases of web portal.
  • In return to above we will get following important information
    • Kids data (sex, age, date of birth)
    • Parents data (address, phone, email)
  • Use above data to exploit very accurate target market e.g. Two revenue channels
    • Direct revenues
      • Birthday Parties arrangements thru outsourcing (use cold calls two week before birthday)
      • Provide hobby classes (piano classed, dance classes, abacus, drawing, sports etc.)
      • Many other things similar to above where direct selling is possible
    • Indirect Revenues
      • Use portal to sell toys, consoles, games very specific to kids (similar to cross selling)
      • Align products to marketing effort of other companies (Sell Toy Story toys during marketing on other channels by Pixar e.g. television commercial)
      • During festivals or specific time of year sell specific products (e.g. toy boat and umbrella during rainy season)
      • Use portal for advertising revenues.

Web Portal - Use Cases

  • School Principal 
    • Send message (SMS and email) to all student's parent (school level)
    • View messages sent by parents to principal in inbox
    • Receive SMS on phone from parent
    • Create school calendar
  • Teacher
    •  Send message (SMS and email) to all student's parent (class level)
    •  View messages sent by parents to principal in inbox (class level)
    • Receive SMS on phone from parent
    • Create/Update class calendar 
    • promote students for next class
    • Add/Remove students to class
    • Save assessments
    • Publish results
    • View/Edit class calendar
    • Publish time table
  • Parents 
    • See tabs w.r.t. to each of kids across school
    • See calendar for kids
    • See messages in inbox from class teacher (with history)
    • Receive SMS on phone from teacher
    • Send message/SMS to teacher
    • View pictures of events
  • Admin 
    • Create school event
    • Create class event 
    • Send notification about event to parents
    • Upload pictures for event
  • Setup user 
    • Setup school
  • Non Functional use cases
    • Login
    • Logout
Entities
  • City
  • Sector
  • School
  • Class
  • Class Section
  • Principle
  • Teacher
  • Student
  • Parent
  • Messages
  • Year session
  • Parent InBox
  • Teacher Inbox
  • Event
  • Event Album