Australia-China iLab
The timeframe for the Fudan team to fly to Brisbane Australia and then return to Shanghai was from April 24th to April 30th. The most important event was on April 29th at 10:30am where Fudan team in cooperation with the University of Queensland team had the mid-term presentation to the client University of Queensland Business School Executive Education.
The feedback that the team have received from clients, mentors and other involved parties is highly positive. This result is the culmination of the hard work and time that both teams have spent during the previous months. This was suitably doubled down on during the work week where many different work streams were finalized.
The process was an initial series of workshops led by different individuals such as University of Queensland mentors and faculty members. One workshop helped to prepare for the work at hand in terms of completing the “story board” method to creating a slide deck. When taking a look at the finalized version of the presentation, it is clear that this was highly impactful in helping to develop a very high quality framework to present to the client.
Overall, the week went by with a flash, and has pushed the team forward as a team. But the final objective still needs further devotion and efforts.
(By Australia-China Lab team)
Avain
During the join week of 25 April to 29 April, 2016, the Avain team had the mid-term project review meeting with the client Avaintech in its Finland headquarter office.
Everything went on very well over the meeting. Upon the report meeting, the team reviewed their accomplishments so far, as well as desk research, field research execution, data interpretation, cross comparison analysis, customer behaviour analysis, hypothesis review, and next-stage plan. The client, in particular, their CEO and his team expressed great satisfaction and appreciation for it. To facilitate the smooth progress for next-stage project execution, the client provided feedback and input for the final deliverables.
Apart from the communication on the project itself, both parties also proactively initiated the cross-cultural talk, through which they got to know more about each other. Although there were tough or bitter moments over the project, both sides believe that they are moving on the right direction, and would achieve the success together in the end.
(By Avain Team)
Ekolet
On April 26, Fudan Team had mid-term presentation to Ekolet Team and Finpro.
Both teams talked about the Chinese market, industry policy and field interview feedback during the mid-term report. In the afternoon, Ekolet team showed products demonstration in the summer house. Products are Happy loo, Holiday Home Indoor Composting toilet (VS), Holiday Home Outdoors Composting Toilet (VU) and Year Round Use Composting Toilet (YV).
On April 27, Fudan team visited to Haltia nursery in the morning. Haltia is testing nature friendly nursery where they have two Ekolet VU models in daily use for the children. Then in the afternoon, Fudan team visited to Sipoonkorpi national park where Ekolet Happy-Loo toilet was set up three years ago for test use. After that. Fudan team visited to Melaja Oy that manufactures Ekolet Happy-Loo model.
After the mid-term report and visiting to demonstration places, Fudan team was much clear about the products and the application. Meanwhile, Ekolet team proposed some questions needed to be answered in next step.
On April 29, Fudan team visited Tekes office. After Tekes officers’ detailed information about Tekes’s history, mission and value. Fudan Team had a short summary of the mid-term report.
This visit to customer and Tekes helped Ekolet team understand more about the project and local market and culture. It was of great help for work in the next stage.
(By Ekolet team)
Virranta
Fudan-Tekes iLab project Virranta group arrived in Kuopio at 5pm, Apr 24th. The beautiful view and clean air in this northern small city in Finland excited the team members. After arrival, in spite of jet lag, all team members started the final check and rehearsal of mid-term report. Next morning, the team visited in Virranta Company in the morning and met with the staff of the company. The boss, Mr. Petteri Virranta and Mr. Jussi, first introduced the basic information of the company and showed the team the equipment they used so they could get a further understanding about the strength and weakness of the company. Then was time for the mid-term presentation. Based on previous delicate research and preparation, the presentation was very detailed, comprehensive, and convincing. The clients were also very satisfied with the research.
In the next day, the team visited the clients company, including a hospital and an office building. Through this the team came to understand how complicated project the clients had done, and got more idea of the capability and competency of Virranta company.
It was really a fantastic and memorable experience for all the members.
(By Virranta Team)
OptoFidelity
Apr 26th, the iLab team of OptoFidelity project, with 4 IMBA students being the consultants of the project, 1 MBA student as the industry advisor and Professor Chu Rongwei, have arrived at Tampere, the once industrialized center of Nordic region and nowadays the innovation center of Finland.
It was a rainy day, accommodating the anxiety of the team, who had been diligently working on the project during the past three and half months, yet still couldn’t be satisfied on their mid-term project to present to the client company, OptoFidelity. After a joyful Finnish local meal, including the first-time experience of reindeer steak and tasty Finnish beer, the team indulged themselves into a final review and rehearsal of the project proposal.
Professor Chu organized a round-table review meeting and encouraged every and each team member to throw critical opinions on the whole proposal, with the aim of identifying any structural theory logic gap, as well as any possible different opinions of the proposed content, to the very detail organization of format and font size. Accompanied by the long day of Finland, where the night won’t come till 10 pm, the team had been working so devoted that till 2am in the morning, we’ve finally reached a fine-tuned version of the proposal.
The coming three days thereafter came as a hard-earned success. After presenting the proposal to the executive teams of OptoFidelity including its founds, CEO, CTO, VP and directors, their feedbacks are overwhelming positive, and responded with great expectation on final term. There have also been interviews arranged to meet the sales & market team and technology team for the purpose of an in-depth understanding of the status quo of OptoFidelity as well as their own ideas of what they are, how they are performing, and why they have reached current success. The project meeting has achieved more than both sides had expected, and it won’t be possible without the chances of the visit.
(By OptoFidelity team)
