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Week 12 – Last week of interviews!
Week 12: Last Week of Interviews! In our last week of interviews, we presented our product for the military use case after learning that while the dual use case could be viable in the future, it would cost too much for us to deploy it in the commercial marketplace. This highlighted some other avenues for […]
Market Value: Starting with the Consumers or the Government?
This week, we were able to test our product’s value proposition with a couple of new users who hadn’t heard about what we were doing. This was a great opportunity to hear the questions they had for why we were involved and how our solution would really be different from what currently exists. Through these […]
Week 10: Improving the User’s Experience with Mediscope
This week we were able to test our format of information input for Mediscope. In general, beneficiaries were excited about the format of the input. They were also enthusiastic about the idea of a game-like progression with badges or notifications to incentivize information input. Biggest concerns were around issues of security and verification of data, […]
Week 9: Building out a vision for data input
One of the important hypotheses we tested this week was the concept that we can build this data input to accommodate all users. This was an important hypothesis to test because we have kind of determined that the most valuable way of using this product would be to extend it to all users. We wanted […]
Learning How to Show and Test Value: Week 8
This week, we were able to make some progress technologically, as well as test the product and gather feedback from old and new beneficiaries (within the same beneficiary group of 18D’s). Using Overpass Turbo, a suggestion from one of our tech expert interviewees, and converting those open searches to ArcGIS, we were able to show […]
Discovering the true value add
Week 7: Mission Achievement This week we wanted to make sure that we were headed in the right direction and continued to ask our target beneficiaries, 18D’s, about our MVP. We were even able to show the MVP to an 18D in person this past weekend. The responses to the MVP were great ranging […]
Identifying the Right Problem is More than Halfway to a Solution
This week, the team spent some time talking to course advisors to gather feedback on our progress. We had been a little concerned about whether the product was technologically feasible, as well as if we were making progress at the right pace- should we have something developed at this point, and other similar questions had […]
Proceeding with Caution
The biggest lesson for us from this week is that information on medical evacuation and procedures to access it exist — but the root of the problem is how to organize & update information so that it is actually used in a way that cuts down on-the-field med evac logistics planning time. Our interviewees shed […]
Week 4: Pivot Towards Medical Evacuation MVP?
This week, we further explored the medical evacuation logistics problem in our beneficiary interviews and found that, in general, this could help 18D’s save time and improve work focus during the right point in time as compared to the standardized clinic set-up. Having a more accessible database of information- ideally with pictures and filters for […]
Week 3 – Site Visit
In our third week, the team travelled to Fort Bragg on Wednesday, January 23rd. There we saw all of the equipment that medics have to take inventory for but really don’t use. In general, the equipment medics do take on missions is left up to them and what they believe the team needs. In addition, […]
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