Mission
The Steve Jobs project Cameroon aims at creating through training at least three Steve-Job-like Cameroonians by 2020, set up a Silicon Valley based company to protect credit of our project results by 2015, set up excellent ERP support call center in Cameroon by 2016, and become a reference hub for Africa and beyond by 2016. This is an initiative of Red1 (talk) (Malaysia) in close collaboration with Dr.-Ing.Stanley Mungwe, CEO of ITKamer, Germany. This project is now under the proposed KAfrica Foundation.
Strategy
- Pareto Principle - learn from the guru 20% of his experience that has 80% impact.
- Learn by doing - get hit by a bug, and do not rest till you find out what the heck happened.
- Learn by teaching - when you tell someone something, more things come right in your mind.
- Learn by playing - inter-team contests, role playing and actual field sales and profit.
- Some calls it branding - we call it 'planting our flag on the mountain'
- Some calls it focus - we call it 'attention directing tools'
- Some call it free - we call it freedom.
Steve Jobs Project core values
- Ensure student and customer success - Obsessive and unwavering commitment to making students and customers successful.
- Focus on scoring the goal- Relentless focus on delivering results that lead to the final goal: 3Steve Job-like, and Silicon Valley achievement.
- Strive for excellence and visibility- Commitment to a collaborative enviroment infused with professionalism,integrity,passion,and accountability.
Matrices for participants
| Metric | Metrics under which participants are measured |
| Punctuality | Must be punctual in all aspects and keep deadlines |
| Documentation | Consistently document steps,results and references of every work. Work is not considered until it is well documented |
| Publish | The end result and user guide of every work must be publicized in a community or forum etc. Community is our free tester and natural examiner |
| Use modern communication methods | Make the best of modem free or cheap method of communication instead of face to face meetings and phone calls Using project chat-rooms and email groups is a must |
| Integrity, professionalism transparency | When you don't get something say you don't get it Be hard and diligent Be honest Positive "can-do" attitude,goes above the call of duty,strives for personal excellence, focuses on results, and drives customers and student success |
Our killer apps
- User friendly ERP: Make idempire ERP and POS as user fiendly as possible, and applicable to real small businesses all over Africa and beyond.
- Analog Phone to CyberSpace: Allowing poor phone users the chance to access Google via normal phone service.
- Asterisk Support Centre: A total bench marked solution that makes Cameroon the hub for its richer time zone counterparts in the north.
- iDempiere DocBook Project: Full suite of help content for the best free ERP in the world.
Social Skills
Red1 taught (using the Pareto Principle) some social skills to the apprentices. Neuro-linguistic programming an approach to communication and personal development to get his disciples more confident.Also, make your English more international that is be more eloquent, speak more slowly and now add some British swag to your pronunciation.
Sales techniques
Why do people hate salespersons? and why did you fail to conquer that girl? Nobody wants to buy from a salesperson because it's more like they are throwing away something they do not want and girls tend to be attracted to guys having girls around them already.The point actually is don't look desperate when trying to close a sale. Consider branding yourself and using AIDA principle :
- A – attention (Awareness): attract the attention of the customer.
- I – interest: raise customer interest by focusing on and demonstrating advantages and benefits (instead of focusing on features, as in traditional advertising).
- D – desire: convince customers that they want and desire the product or service and that it will satisfy their needs.
- A – action: lead customers towards taking action and/or purchasing.
Red1 sensei will always tell you what to do to succeed but to know the how, you got to read in Red1's presales book.
It's high time we got our hands dirty
Now we will look at some POS source code to get to understand how it works and then we modify it to our convenience.Apprentices have two rules to follow: never should you forget to document your work and release early, release often. The Wonderful POS needs a logo, it's time for a logo competition, make it flashy guys.
Advanced social engineering
Physical ability to resist adverse conditions is a function of conformity to natural physical laws. Similarly, a person's ability to incorporate into a group or a movement and derive benefit from it can be said to be resulting from conformity to certain laws, customs, manners, culture and moral traditions.In short it's about how well you behave. There are rules over the internet.These rules are made and enforced by virtual governments. Apprentice have to be aware of that and show some respect. Over the internet there's a way for doing almost anything and we at the Steve Jobs Project follow that etiquette, Netiquette.Netiquette covers not only rules of behavior during discussions but also guidelines that reflect the unique electronic nature of the medium. Whether it is how to ask questions,how to participate in open source projects or even how to fork someone project, Open source is an inherently social process.
Preparation for Sales of the Wonderful POS
On the third day, Red1 got those apprentice of his do some role play on how they intend to go out and "sell" the POS. It was fun and entertaining but this was also to attain other objectives.
- Know about our product.
- know about possible resistance.
- Know how to present our product.
There are a variety of ways to close sales and certainly a million more to lose.We want to avoid all lose so apprentice got to read and document themselves in preparation,remember the three rules; Practice, practice and practice. A assignment was given to all the apprentice "Go and try to close a sale at at least one store, restaurant or whatever.Just go and come give feedback for our next meeting".
