This workshop is about goal, strategy, methods, technology, This workshop is about goal, strategy, methods, technology, patterns to solving business problem and grow business. It is based on real case studies.

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We have created train&bus booking services for travellers around the world. Even if the epidemic is not over, there will still be individual travellers from 80 countries and 28 languages using various services every day. At the same time, industry big players have also begun to rely on the global ground transportation infrastructure data and API services. The data and API have been integrated with Alibaba's global address data and tourism resources. \

As team members with both business and technical backgrounds, this experience has given us a deep reflection on ways to mix business, innovation and technology into our daily work and implement within development team. We began to realise that it is not enough for individual team member to understand skills&methods only within their own disciplines but to the extent of the business.

About the workshop

In this workshop you will experience lifecycle of business incubation, liftoff and iteration. You will understand the role of technology, product design, operation, business methods, big data analysis, AI and learning in growing business. You will learn how to fit all these together by implementing a real business product within 3 days

Format

The workshop starts from night of day 0 (Friday). We will facilitate team forming session and guide teams to create initiate product backlog and backlog of the first sprint. We will have 8 sprints in the next 3 days. From late day 1, your team should have created your MVP app. And you are able to make money.

Selling Points

• Real life cases. You are able to face the challenges in real life and after the workshop, customers can use your app to buy product and make profit.
• Business end to end. Even though technology is necessary, we will cover a lot of topics to run a business including product design, business development, marketing, SEO, big data. Participants are able to think about and solve business problems with a holistic business view.
• Innovate with guidance, coaching and support. Unlikely hackathon and ideathon which are quite open, this workshop is in a controlled manner. You are able to innovate with guidance, coaching, support. Each sprint with sprint goal is designed to share with you some specific topics in running the business and at the end of sprint, we will give you deep-dive sharing sessions about what we tried and lesson-learning.
• AI enabled innovation, you will explore how to integrate AI tools into product
• Big data. Gradually, you will be fed huge amount of data. You will learn data acquisition, analysis, tracking, hyper-linking, creating data reinforce loop.

Agenda

Day 0 Night: Lift off

• Team formation • Building initial backlog

Day 1: MVP product

• 2-3 sprints • Building effective cross-functional teams • How to make profit from day 1 • Publishing MVP product to app store • Payment integration

Day 2: Drive business growth

• 2-3 sprints • Marketing your product • Facing emergency • How to hyper-link with more products • Building semantic data web • Driving growth with SEO • Keep track of user behaviours / data • Data operation

Day 3: Build business barriers enabled by AI

• 2 sprints • Methods to build business barriers

• Integratin product with AI • Identifying the skeleton, vessel and blood of business • Retrospective