DREAMS DEVELOPEDMIDTERM REVIEW

Tim Tocci \ Prof. Chris Miller25 April 2011 \ IDUS 763

OVERVIEW

1. Working Thesis Title

2. Working Thesis statement

3. Working Research questions

4. Lit review map/sketches/book covers

5. Value proposition draft

6. Potential thesis committee members

7. Screen shots of blog site

8. Time Line to defense

Designing

Resonant

Exemplars for

Advancement through

Microenterprise

Solutions

THESIS TITLE

Product design heuristics derived from ethnographic

research may be employed to expedite and optimize

microenterprise development (MED) in post-conflict

communities such as Kabul, Afghanistan.

THESIS STATEMENT

1. What are the political, economic, social,

technological, legislative, and environmental

factors affecting MED in Kabul?

2. What are the barriers to MED in Kabul?

3. Who is the target beneficiary for current MED

programs in Kabul?

4. Where are the opportunities for MED?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

LITERATURE REVIEW MAP

Microenterprise

Informality(Gulyani 2010)

Social Ent.(Bornstein 2010)

Fortune Pyramid(Prahalad 2009)

Product Design

Innovation(Anderson 2007)

Third World(Amir 2004)

Women(Tinker 2000)

Afghanistan

Post-Conflict(Bowling 2005)

Rebuild(Ghani 2005)

Development(Ingram 2010)

Findings used to create a framework to guide

future microenterprise product development and

evaluate design concepts.

Benefits community development agencies and

local entrepreneurs by facilitating process and

identifying factors that contribute to success.

VALUE PROPOSITION

POTENTIAL THESIS COMMITTEE

Joel Bob John Owen John

Wittkamp Fee McCabe Foster Schaffield

TIMELINE TO DEFENSE

Secondary Research Summer

Thesis Application

Summer

Primary Research

Fall

DefenseMarch 2012