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Employees and organization
Like mentioned before, the BoP-iD team will exist out of 3 employees, from whom 2 full time and 1 student half time. The responsibilities are mainly divided over the 2 full time employees in such a way that: - All the activities dealing with networking with the NGOs, and local population research are the responsibility of the Brazilian employee . - All the activities related with, the general organization of the company, supervising, economical verifications, and contact with the companies is the responsibility of Jente Minne. The Student is responsible for making presentations and keeping the web site up to date. It may seem that the Brazilian employee has a lot of work, but for the local research a lot of cocreation with civil societies or universities will be done. Many of these activities will be especially a lot of work in the first year of BoP-iD and will decrease substantially when the company obtains more trustable and efficient networks. It is a logical division because: - The Brazilian employee will have more connections with NGOs and speaks better Portuguese than Jente Minne, furthermore Brazilian designers are more specialized in the human and design factors, than in the economical and technical properties of product design. - Jente Minne will be more specialized dealing with the economical and the organization of BoP companies, being specialized in Micro financing. And probably his English will be better, but its Portuguese will be worse. - The students at esdi are especially well educated in graphic design, and the tasks given by the student can always easily be checked. In this way BoP-iD tries to avoid big responsibilities for the student, but still gives the student the feeling that he is a true member with responsibilities. BoP-iD will try to keep the student during its last 2 years of his studies and than it will try to offer him a full time job offer in the company, so his knowledge and networks aren’t lost. Since the BoP-iD activities are all very connected and a lot of the activities includes brainstorming and networking, The members will work very close together and many decisions will be made with the 3 employees. As long as the company remains small this can easily be done in a efficient way. All the contracts will be signed by Jente Minne and the Brazilian employee, to avoid miscommunication. This is important because the Employee is mainly dealing with the contacts with the NGOs, while Jente Minne is dealing with the contacts with the client. But an agreement between the client and the NGOs needs to be obtained. If BoP-iD expands locally or geographically, a new employee, active in the management or economical sector, will be attracted and Jente Minne will organize and supervise the start up of the second unit. In a long term, Jente Minne will only supervise the several local units, while every unit can work independently. This also allows the company to attract international clients.
Jente Minne
BoP-iD
Business plan 2009-2010