Phone meeting with Janet McMillan

Susan and I had a phone meeting today with Janet McMillan, the Innovations Project leader, in regard to our draft business case. Janet was able to access it via the edna group.

Janet made the following suggestions in regard to:

(1) The budget:

• we need to be spreading items more evenly across the funding from the Framework and from TAFE, eg, catering costs, toolboxes, meeting costs
• we include consultants, eg, herself, Michael Coghlan and Margaret Granger
• include funding for more staff to go to e-dayz
• increase admin funding

(2) ROI:

• doesn't have to have $s against it
• sent email with attachment with ROI from Business incubator case which is applicable to us also
• is about deliverables that will be produced, for example
• theory model around integrated learning approach
• case study
• report
• student evaluation tool , ie, survey monkey
• presentation at e-dayz
• communication strategy
• student's journals (extracts from for feedback)
• it would be advisable to separate the ROI for TAFE, Bower Place and the framework

(3) Support:

• have done the section well on how project aligns with TAFE strategic plan but should include a paragraph on how it aligns to Bower Place business plan and about their business model and the sustainability of the project

(4) Risks:

• find out what's happening for students on an ongoing basis - suggested strategy would be to have them writing an online journal or blog so we can keep an eye on them along the way to prevent any problems further down the track