Online Modules
Exploration
Know the difference between a functional and non-functional team, and learn what it takes to form your winning team in any project.
What makes an idea a success? Consider its desirability, viability and feasibility. Learn more about the trifecta of ideas through this video!
This session helps you identify the pain point that your idea addresses and how should you look at the unique value proposition of your idea. You will learn how to craft your value proposition and how to position your idea to stand out from the rest.
Having trouble deciding the right solution for your complex issue? Let Systems Thinking help you identify the various interconnected factors to guide your next steps towards building an impactful solution through this short course.
This session will teach you how to identify various traits and habits to create your persona, which acts as a guide and basis for you to craft your marketing campaigns and acquire users for your idea. You will learn about how you should formulate hypothesis and create constructive stereotypes to segregate your target users.
This session covers the full suite of iterative process that you will go through when you test your idea with your users. You will learn about how to test and create experiments using the trifecta framework once again - feasibility, desirability and viability, and to know how to prioritise your hypothesis testing with the limited resources on hand.
This session helps you work on balancing the strengths, weaknesses, shared values and roles in order to build your winning team. You will learn how to carve out group norms, core values, and work with each other via the team charter framework.
Prototyping
Hardware Prototyping
The hardware prototyping module will help your team develop the fundamental knowledge on how to plan, design, and refine your prototypes towards achieving a Minimum Viable Product.
Digital Prototyping
The digital prototyping module will teach you how to identify, build and iterate digital prototypes with the relevant resources, after which you can validate your solution with potential users and customers to derive on a minimum viable product.
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Partnership & Outreach
The Case for Support tells potential donors what your organisation hopes to accomplish with their help. This module will help you to persuade them to partner with you and achieve impact together.
Sharing your progress/updates is key to maintaining your audience and partners and through this course you will discover how to cultivate these relationships by using strategic communications.
Imagine you only have 3 mins with one of your potential investors/clients, how would you capture their attention and convince them to support your mission? Learn how to do this successfully with this short course.
This module helps you to articulate your story and your call to action in an authentic way to a wide range of audience. It is designed to help you get buy-in for your idea.
What actual value are you creating for your users and/or beneficiaries? Through this course, you will create your own story telling to articulate your value, in a simple way.
Applying for global opportunities can help you grow, showcase and scale the impact of your business and this module will show you how to stand out on your applications!
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This session equips you with the knowledge on distribution frameworks and channel strategies. You will learn how each channel strategy differs and identify the most viable strategy for your idea.
How to Organize a Movement PPT.pdfHow to Organize a Movement
Many youths seek to create change by starting a movement. However, creating a sustainable and scalable movement requires a highly systematic approach. This programme distils lessons from around to world to help you systematise your practice of community organising, to create effective personal and public narratives to mobilize action and change, and structure an effective campaign.
Budgeting
Careful financial planning and budgeting from the very start can go a long way in achieving financial sustainability. This module with templates can help you do practical budgeting and forecasting easily.
Accessing external capital takes pro-activeness and perseverance. This module provides some tips on how to prepare an initial investment memo, showcasing more financial details of your social solution to generate interest with potential investors.
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This session covers the various funding structures for social projects and the misconception that people commonly have about funding. You will learn how to identify the social vision of your product, craft your idea to maximise the social impact while ensuring its financial sustainability.
Impact Measurement & Scaling
If your startup is contributing to a better world, you will need an impact management framework to measure and show your contribution. This module will help you get started and you can build your own Impact one pager.
Understanding the importance of addressing integrity and good governance as part of the business/organisation model is key. Use this module to learn about trust, integrity and achieving impact for better business results.
There's hundreds of accelerator programmes out there but how do you figure the right one for you and make sure you are selected? Let's figure it out through this short course.
Introduction to Logic Model
Logic Model - a road map to understand how the different components of your project would bring about the impact you want to achieve; this short sharing introduces you to the basics of logic model and how you can apply it to your project.
Others
There are specific actions you can take to lessen the impact of crises on your businesses. This module is designed to support founders going through a challenging period, with tools to help you prioritise your agenda with limited resources.
All potential partners ask for a concise 1-page summary of your idea with details like - how you fill the gap in the market, the solution potential, and how the community can join your mission. This module will help you write it.
Storyboarding helps you fully prepare to create the perfect video: from knowing who to invite, what should be prepared, etc. This module will guide you from start to end on the pre, during and post video production.