Inno58 Team Leaders Meeting - April 8, 2010

Here are the notes from the Team Leaders Meeting today:

Camp

• There will be wireless internet
• Packing List
• books, laptops, source material, etc.
• linen (pillow and blanket will be provided BUT you will need to provide sheets, pillow case, and blanket cover) *Let Noora know if you need something
• outdoor gear (we'll be in a forest next to a lake)
• swimsuit and towel for the sauna
• soap, shampoo, etc.
• At camp, we will get the final assignment and then create and print the final report/product
• 65 people in 2 cabins with mostly 6 beds to a room
• Rules (this is a camp that is sort of church sponsored):
• no cigaretts, no alcohol
• in our cabins we can do what we want, but have to be smart about it

Schedule

• Tuesday: 12:15 leave from TUAS front lobby, transporation will be provided
• There will be an initial large group brainstorming activity at camp
• Evenings: sauna
• Thursday: afternoon arrive back to TUAS
• Friday: 8:30-16:00, seminar (20 min presentations)

Friday Seminar

• 20 minute presentations, if still have time in their presentation, the groups can talk about their learning experience
• Teachers, students, and company representatives will be present
• everyone will give evaluations
• students and teachers will evaluate each group
• There is a prize for the winning team
• There will be 2 presentations in English, the rest in Finnish... so, we'll see what happens

Other

• After party at The One on Friday

2nd brainstorm meeting

Hi guys,

we should meet f2f again until next week because of is already camp next week!!

Suggestions: Thursday at 2 pm
Friday - whenever

Meeting - March 31, 2010

Product Ideas Meeting

• Events
• Create camps and retreats for Hockey teams, IAC groups, student groups, family reunions, churches
• Corporate meetings
• Festivals: triathlons, Harvest time, Winter wonderland, Charity party, fun Olympic games, outdoor film festival, theater
• Concerts
• Summer: 3 day festival, camping
• Winter: small, indoor concert or band/CD release party
• Product Launch party
• Build accommodations - a hotel, cabins, etc.
• Add a bar and have bartender do shows
• Advertising
• Join Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter, blogging
• Sponsorships
• News write-ups
• Website improvements
• sub-tabs are difficult to work - therefore a lot of information is never found
• tab for reviews/blogs
• tab for "How to get there" - transportation to the area
• nearby hotels, etc
• explain services better
• What is a glazed barbecue hut?
• What is included in the programs?
• More about restaurant - menu prices, pics of the place, is it really more catering?
• Present pictures as a slide show instead of all of the pictures laid out on the page
• Whats the difference between "Whats happening" and "bookings" - can be combined into one.
• What is the "usual presentation equipment"
• Services
• boats in the summer
• snowshoeing in the winter
• packages
• "Survivor" - one boat, one bag, start in Turku, go to Hirvilampi and camp/compete for a weekend
• hot tub/jacuzzi 
• Health seminar - how to best exercise
• Lifesaving (CPR) training
• parasailing

Parent company of Hirvilampi: Metras

Facebook - Week 13 meeting

Facebook:

"Hi guys,

we have to figure out a suitable day this week for meeting us where we will make a brainstorming!!

I suggest: Wed - whenever after 11 am.
Thu - after 3 pm
Fri, Sat, Su - whenever

BUT we have to meet this week, it is important!!

Thanx guys

Andrew"

Facebook | Zprávy - INNO58 - a leader meeting report

Facebook Zprávy - INNO58 - a leader meeting report:
"Hi guys,

I had a meeting with Noora on Tuesday 23rd March and have to start working on our INNO project.

At the beginning I am sending you a few questions concerning a camp in Archipelago:

1) If somebody of you have some food allergy?

2) Decide if we want to live together (all our team in one room) + bathrooms are of course separated or if we want to live separated (man/ladies).
• I prefer to live together.

3) Next point of the kind of transport to the camp – no one from our group have a car so Timo is trying to figure out something.

4) There is going to be “competition” between us as teams – another students of INNO will vote the best team work (evaluation = attendance, doing assignments, but the biggest ratio concern utilization of our project for the company)

5) If we want to make some party after the final presentation (16th April)
• I am in ;)

Please write me your answers as soon as possible – we have to do it until this Tuesday 23rd March.

I am working on our schedule right now and will send you when I am finished.

c u

Andrew"

Meeting - March 23, 2010

More topics to research:

• What makes Turku special from the rest of the world?
• What are the growth possibilities for Turku?
• Turku tourism touring
• What is exciting about Turku?

Why we do what we do:  Here are some blogs that help explain why the Innovations Course is set up this way:

• Teemu Arina
• Team Academy
• Peter Senge
• speaking about Team Academy

Meeting 10.03.2010

So it begins! Our business is Hirvilampi and our assignment is to look 5 years ahead. What vision do we see for Hirvilampi? How can our business modify over the next several years (in a realistic and feasible manner) to become a destination? Where people come to Turku because of Hirvilampi, not where people come to Hirvilampi because they're going to be in Turku.

Task for the coming 2 weeks

• Familiarize ourselves with the company before the futuristic meeting on the 23rd of March.

Suggested reading in general that may help with concepts and understanding social media

• Seth Godin's blog
• Tom Peters: Reimagined (here) and Crazy Times Call For Crazy Organizations (here)
• Robert Waterman: What America Does Right (here)
• Rowan Gibson: Rethinking the Future (here)
• Tom Kelley: The 10 Faces of Innovation (here)
• Robert Sutton: Weird Ideas that Work (here)
• Jim Collins: Good to Great (here) - did I find the right one?

*the links are usually to summaries or websites that sell the books to help us get an idea of what they are about.

First Day

Today we met everyone in our group and elected a group leader. Next week the work begins. :)

Team Leader: Ondrej
Secretary/maintain blog: Al
Team Members/blog contributors: Sarah, Amanda, Evan, Boriss, and Viren