Project Title: WBCUtah Technology Platforms for Serving Women Entrepreneurs

Women's Business Center of Utah

Details
Project Title WBCUtah Technology Platforms for Serving Women Entrepreneurs
Project Topics Data Management Entrepreneurship Growth Strategy Product Design & Development Software Design & Development
Skills & Expertise
Project Synopsis: Challenge/Opportunity
WBCUtah, in mid-September, switched platforms to provide consistency in our advising and tools to improve the experience and impact of working with our advisors, which also included a CRM. We also sub-licensed a LMS with the same company (powered by TalentLMS) and are able to generate nice reports that are uploaded to a federal portal (required through our funding and agreement with the SBA). 

The new platform is great for advising, but the CRM aspect is clunky and has required a lot of work-arounds. We now need to spend more time research different options, including APIs and possibly tech stacking to get to our desired processes and outcomes, which are not being met right now. 

We took a lot of time to research, select the platform(s) and then migrating data and implementing. I'm sick thinking about having to start over with research but we do need to figure out what could be tweaked or changed to check all of our boxes, including client experience and ensuring a seamless process for ensuring those who participate on our services are adequately eligible (have completed a required sign up form).

Our clients are getting confused and our team is getting frustrated. We need help!
Project Synopsis: Activities/Actions Required
Based on very niche federal requirements, we would love to have a team of Ensign College students perform the following activities:
  • Learn from our team, especially the State Director, about our data and system requirements, and understand our current issues and technical causes of them not meeting our needs
  • Research CRM and event registration platforms that could either integrate or compliment the system we currently have, to be less clunky, confusing for our clients and more customizable to our needs
  • Present recommendations, budget and time frames to our management team 
Project Synopsis: Expected Results
If a student team could save us time  and research and provide a recommendation of platform(s) that can be integrated or synced which accommodate our rigorous requirements:
  • 100% accommodation of our federal data and reporting requirements (it's lengthy!)
  • Ensure a user-friendly client process that is full-proof for requiring signup prior to engaging in services using
  • Ensure live training registration can be taken within or synced with the same platform our client data is stored (simple registration process)
  • Include a budget of related expenses and timelines (keeping within in our limited budget)
  • Include a recommendation(s) for our management to consider


Project Timeline

Touchpoints & Assignments Date Type

Team Roles and Meeting Times

Jan 17 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Project Milestone

Student Pre-Kick-off Self-Assessment Form

Jan 23 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Evaluation

Engagement Letter Draft

Jan 24 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Project Milestone

Submitted Fully Signed Engagement Letter

Jan 31 2024, 23:55 PM Project Milestone

Student Temperature Check

Feb 02 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Evaluation

Complete a full Project Plan

Feb 02 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Project Milestone

Student Post-Engagement Peer Assessment Form

Feb 02 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Evaluation

Industry Mentor Temperature Check

Feb 28 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Evaluation

Midterm Project Report

Feb 28 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Project Milestone

Student Post-Engagement Peer Assessment Form

Mar 04 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Evaluation

Student Temperature Check

Mar 04 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Evaluation

Student Temperature Check

Mar 25 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Evaluation

Industry Mentor Temperature Check

Mar 25 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Evaluation

Create a Final Written Report

Apr 02 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Project Milestone

Create a Final Presentation Document

Apr 05 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Project Milestone

Invitations sent to all invitees to the Final Report meeting

Apr 08 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-07:00) Project Milestone

Company Sponsor Project Evaluation

Apr 11 2024, 23:55 PM US/Mountain (UTC-06:00) Evaluation

Program Managers

Name Organization
Roger McCarty Brigham Young University (BYU)