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HYPERLINK "https://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_139121_1&content_id=_12551266_1" o "Alternative formats" Assignment 2: Compilation of Design Entrepreneur Businesses

In this assessment, you are expected to submit a Compilation of Design Entrepreneur Business Cases.

The compilation should include an analytical framework by which you have examined at least three relevant business cases.

This assessment represents 30% of the overall grade in this unit.

Introduction

The purpose of this Assignment is familiarise yourself with the business models applied to real-life businesses and the approaches adopted by design entrepreneurs.

By looking at all aspects of a business, you will be able to identify any distinguishing features of a business value proposition; its resources, partnerships and organising principles; its customer base. Not every business you encounter necessarily adopts a business model that is financially sustainable or aligned with the values of your own venture idea.

Here is your opportunity to learn not onlyhowto build a venture, but also perhapshow not to.

Assignment Task

Your task is to provide a written analysis of at least three business cases, using a clear analytical framework drawn from the readings you have been provided. You might decide for example to use theSocial Startup Toolkitas a framework (using the Social Enterprise Blueprint. Alternatively, you might decide to use the effectuation model as a framework.

Decide on this before you begin a series of interviews with business owners. Youmust use a creative or design-relatedbusiness, which may span agencies, software developers, arts organisations and not-for-profits.