Dosti
It's my pleasure to continue working and collaborating with the Dosti Global team. We have worked together to conduct a feasibility study on a global work program the company wanted to start. The program includes a 1-3 month work-stay in Hyderabad, India for university students and business professionals. I contacted and interviewed over 50 target customers, helped develop a landing page for the program and presented my findings to the Dosti team.
WEB DESIGN
Above is the first draft of the minimum viable product we used for the Global Business Immersion Program. We chose to use a landing page to make it easier to send to people who were interested. We continued to tweak and develop our landing page from the original draft, and you can find the current page by clicking the button below.
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Customer Relationship Management
I developed an excel tool to grade 57 African countries in 7 different categories comprised of data from 26 different metrics. You can view the tool by selecting the XLS file.
On the tool you will find a "Master Sheet" tab, which contains all the data points for each country in each metric. You will also find a "Weighted Grade" tab, which organizes and measures the data points and then returns the overall desirability score of each country (see cells G4:G57 or table "Country_Overall_Rank").
The images provided account for about 5% of this project. I recommended opening the excel file to view the full tool. For further information on how the tool works, view the "Tool Instructions" tab located on the sheet.
INITIAL DRAFT OF PROGRAM
Assignment:
Develop a cross-cultural manual to be used by HOPE staff members in preparation for business trips overseas.
Process:
I began by outlining everything HOPE might want in the manual. Unlike other culture manuals I've worked on in the past, this manual was specifically for business etiquette. After researching a list of what typically goes into business etiquette manuals, I drafted an outline and proposed it HOPE.
Once the outline was approved, I developed a list of questions I needed answers to in order to create quality and comprehensive content. I also created a list of potential interviewees for each nation. Interviewees tended to be business professionals native to the country, but also business professionals who had previously resided in each nation.
I collected and organized the responses of interviewees into a spreadsheet and cross checked answers with other interviewees for confirmation.
After compiling all of the relevant information, I designed a template to be used for future cross-cultural manuals. Once the template was finished, I was able to complete the Rwandan cultural manual and begin manuals for four other nations.
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