Team: Nishi, Rune, Inalivi, Vitsisono, Tshering, Khushi, Ahana, Mehak

KIS.ME

A student’s living innovation

About our business

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What is Kis.me??

Executive Summary:

we are a business proposing the development of an app/website called KIS.ME that would give students quick and easy access to information about our institution. We have thought of this because we frequently observe students facing problems with the kis.net website, which can be frustrating and unclear at times. the app will provide features such as offline schedules and profiles, online stockroom, donation box, a reward system and many more.

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Rüne

Brief Description:

Our aim is to provide students, staff, and parents alike with an easy to use app detailing all important events circling the school. KIS.NET can oftentimes become quite complicated to navigate through with that, it misses out on many features that could be added to make the school’s standing impactful, offer services to students, and take load off of teachers. Our business mainly plans to serve the students and earn revenue from partnering with renowned national education servicers. Developing this app in a monopolized market for a specific school, we have no competitors. However, this app will be an updated version of the current KISNET that will engage in ethical practices that will give back to the community as well. Our team consists of experts in the area we are exploring. By having a business analyst, a QA, a team of dedicated developers, and heads of financial information, operational practices, human resources departments and marketing strategists, our team is well equipped to take on this business idea.

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Nishi

—Value Proposition

—Vision Statement

KIS.ME is a simple-to-use app/website that gives the kis community useful, engaging features that make their experience 10 times easier.

Our vision is to provide quality services to students, staff, and parents alike with an easy to use app/website

Rüne

Features:

Rüne and Nishi

• Petition votes -students can write down their complaints and problems regarding washrooms, classrooms, the food etc.
• Online courses -Online courses from partnered educational services is a way to provide students with quick access to accredited courses with KIS discounted prices. This will also help earn revenue as the adverts for these services will be put on KIS.ME, ensuring that for every KIS student/ parent to pay the subscription fee, a 20% commission is being paid to KIS.ME
• Online merchandise -This is a way to supply KIS merchandise to alumni, this is another way the website/ app can earn revenue. KIS.ME earns a 20% commission from the stockroom for every sale. Shipping and transportation costs should be covered by the receiving alumni.
• Tutorial of app - This feature will provide with a thorough explanation of the software that will instruct students and teachers on how to utilise it and will help to clear up any misunderstandings.
• Online Stockroom -you can put your products in the cart and pick it up from the stockroom as sometimes the product you want is not available

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Features:

Rüne and Nishi

• Offline Schedule and Profiles -students and teachers will be able to view profiles offline and if there is an update in your schedule, it'll be updated when your device has access to internet.
• Search Bar for everything -The current model of KIS.NET offers a search bar, however it only works or offers a suitable page when only a specific set of key terms are used. If a teacher wanted to access grade level reports, that teacher will not be able to put that in the search bar and gain an appropriate response. For this we decided to incorporate a search bar with a wide variety of key terms that can be used to find a bundle of results. This can be done by implementing both static and dynamic data, by implementing web scraping, static content of the website can be accessed, meaning all the data stored within the website can be accessed, whoever features like online courses, or donations to local causes connect KIS.ME to third party resources which requires indexing our dynamic data or implementing elasticsearch, a fast serving search web engine that can search data through accessing the database or the elastic search. In simpler words, this connects the KIS.ME to data that is not sourced within the website/ app itself but data that is tied to third party resources.

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Features:

Rüne and Nishi

• Donation Box -this includes donations for prom committee, NHS, for local communities
• One time login (for a day) -This feature is purely for the convenience of the users. In the current version of KIS.NET, users have to put in their user login details every time they need to access the website, which may be put in for precautionary reasons however, one login per day should be able to suffice.
• Offline Home Feed -The offline home feed is a convenient way to check your schedule, or someone else’s schedule when the school network goes down. By giving users the option to download all this information for offline viewing, a lot of hassle (or tardies/absences) can be avoided. When a schedule updates the updated version of the schedules will auto download when the receiving device has access to the internet.
• Charity page -Students can contribute items such as textbooks, school materials, and anything they leave behind upon graduating on this page.
• Reward System -This feature is one that will help students stay motivated through the school year, maintaining a certain GPA can bring students with coupons that serve as add on benefits, such as discounted prices on stockroom merchandise.

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The structure of our business

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Organization & Management

Mehak

Our firm is a partnership. We plan to partner with the school as well as other businesses. We strive to keep our employees safe through the right to compensation, security and against harassment, discrimination. Our stakeholders include the business’s employees and customers (KIS students and staff, parents, alumni).

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Organization & Management

Mehak

Employees:

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1 BAs

1 QA

2 Junior Developers

1 Senior Developer

1 Finance head

3 finance assistants

1 Marketing head

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Employees:

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2 marketing assistant

1 HR head

1 HR assistant

1 Operations head

1 Operations assistant

1 SEO developer

1 CEO

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Mehak- HR head ; NIshi- FInance head; Tsitso– Marketing head; Rune- Operations head; Khushi- Finance assistant; Ahana- FInance assistant; Ina- Finance assistant; Tshering- Marketing assistant

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Span of Control

Mehak

SENIOR DEVELOPER

JUNIOR DEVELOPER

JUNIOR DEVELOPER

BAs (business analyst)

QA (Quality Assurance)

Ceo

FINANCE HEAD

FINANCE ASSISTANT

FINANCE ASSISTANT

FINANCE ASSISTANT

MARKETING HEAD

MARKETING HEAD

MARKETING HEAD

HR HEAD

OPERATIONS

HEAD

FINANCE HEAD

FINANCE HEAD

SEO DEVELOPER

CSR:

Kis.me would like to engage in ethical and sustainable activities by partnering with eco-friendly businesses like Gaukriti and Eco Friendly Stationery and donate 5% of profits to local charities which will benefit the Kodi community. We would also like to collaborate with non-profit organizations such as Khan Academy.

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Tsitso

Marketing

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Key Activities

Our competitive advantage is our features and app availability.

Tshering

Target Customers

KIS Students & Staff

Parents

Alumni

Ahana

Market Analysis

Mehak

A survey we took clearly indicated that most people do not find kis.net very practical and easy to use.

Market Analysis

Mehak

‘If we look at the average time spent on apps, they are the clear winner over mobile websites. Mobile app use is increasingly outpacing mobile browser use. According to eMarketer, smartphone users spent about 4 hours on the internet per day in 2020.’

https://www.mobiloud.com/blog/mobile-apps-vs-mobile-websites

Marketing Activities:

Tsitso

Currently, kis.me would like to promote the school by partnering with renowned businesses or service providers like Amazon. Spotify, YouTube Premium, or Khan Academy.

1. Amazon, Spotify, or YouTube Premium.

We can register our school for the student discounts which are already available since they are used by a majority of students.

2. Khan Academy

Partnering with a non-profit organization like Khan Academy would give great exposure to our school and benefit the students for their SAT preparations.

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KEY Partnerships:

Tsitso

Kis.me wants to focus on businesses that will increase students’ productivity while providing student discounts on educational service forums. In the near future kis.me would like to partner with more national educational services and businesses.

1. Gaukriti and Eco Friendly Stationery.

Gaukriti is an Indian business entirely built on recycling cow dung. We would like to have the school community be a part of this initiative. This could provide service and SoEx hours for students who are interested.

Eco Friendly Stationery is a business that prioritizes the making of stationery using eco-friendly and organic raw materials.

2. Coursera

Coursera is an online course provider whose instructors and partners are world-class. Their certificate can also be of service to promotions and college applications. With our partnership, students can get a 10% discount on monthly fees.

3. Skillshare

KIS is already big on CAS experiences so, being associated to an online learning community like Skillshare would be a great advantage to students for their skill development, CAS requirements, and college applications.

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Finance

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Revenue Stream

We will get our revenue from alumni( through sales of merchandise or donations ) , parents, partnerships.

We will get approximately 20% commissions from partnerships and merch that we sell to alumni. Our starting capital will be collected through crowdfunding and students’ fee.

Khushi

Funding Request

Our group will require somewhere between 10 - 15 lakhs in funding. Therefore, we want to obtain investments from the school, parents, alumni, and donations in order to obtain the funds.

We would utilize the funds to purchase new equipment, increase inventory run the business, and pay our workers.

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Inalivi

Financial Projections:

Nishi

Our new version of KIS.NET will be an integration of the current KIS.NET module and the newer module we will establish. This significantly reduces the cost of developing an entirely new version of the app.

With that 10% of our profits will go to the local community to support Kodaikanal’s local community.

Please refer to the cash flow forecast.

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Analysis

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SWOT analysis

Tshering and Ina

Strengths- As our app KIS.ME has been able to create and make a few more adjustments for instance creating a manual, an online stockroom/gymkhana(Being able to see what is in stock), a one time login system(for a day), etc we made it parent friendly as well as student teacher friendly. KIS.ME has made sure to make your lives easier and quicker.

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Weakness- The cost of developing a new app and since the app is not already developed people can/will get impatient.

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Opportunities- Since it is a school app with the help of the IT department as well as the principal, dean and the vice principal we will be able to spread the word faster as they have access to everyone(in the school of KIS or has a connection to KIS) email.

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Threats- In the future we may not get people to partner with us hence we will not be able to get revenue from those businesses.

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