Business Innovation Camp

Week 1

• DAY 1: Kicks off with a round of ice breaker activities designed to get students to relax and get to know each other. Afterwards, the main event is a stirring discussion with an expert on leadership and innovation. The morning session will wrap up by exploring roles of CxO and self evaluating their personal learning styles. The afternoon session will begin with members choosing roles. Afterwards, a variety of cases will be presented to the mem-bers for their selection.

• DAY 2: The morning of Day 2 starts with an exploration of design thinking based around the Empathize and Define framework. This intense activity will be followed up with members using focus groups and customer survey tools to conduct primary market research to inform their design parameters. The afternoon will revolve around teamwork activities designed to help them build and deliver their surveys in an effective manner.

• DAY 3: On Day 3, the morning session will begin with an expert lecture using actual industrial design cases to inform their thinking about design in regards to Ideate, Prototype and Test. Program fellows will then review their survey results and analyze the implications. In the afternoon, we will have teamwork activities on product design.

• DAY 4: Day 4 will feature an expert perspective on marketing research with discussion panels. The afternoon will continue their progress on designing products and creating prototypes in team activities.

• DAY 5: Day 5 commences with a lecture on corporate finance. Team members in the CFO role will create P/L, budget-ing and break-even analysis. The CMO/CSO role will work on marketing materials, surveys and customer validation, and the CIO will design a competitive analysis in the team activities.

Week 2

• DAY 6: Day 6 opens the session with the next step of the process: sales strategy. A zero to one presentation by a CEO will kick off the day, followed by team work on crafting a personal brand essence, resumes and the good old 90” pitch. After lunch, the kids’ teams will develop their product sales strategy under the guidance of classroom assistants. 

• DAY 7: On Day 7, the first program is on creating business plans and, coincidentally, storytelling. The students will work on filming vids for their 90” pitch. They eat a nutritious lunch, then work through the afternoon on the pitch deck, where they practice their pitches in early rehearsals. 

• DAY 8: The eighth day of the program will see students polishing their presentation skills in the morning, then another afternoon devoted to 90” pitch filming.

• DAY 9: The penultimate day of the program opens on the students furiously practicing their pitches as they hone in on the perfect patter. In the afternoon, teams will finalize their business plans and finish off the pitch deck. 

• DAY 10: The last day of the program: the showdown, the final curtain. Final rehearsals in the morning. The calm before the storm. Families and friends are cordially invited to engage the afternoon session. Teams will showcase the immense amount of what they learned and created to a panel of judges from seasoned venture capitalists, angel investors and industrial leaders.