E-BUSINESS STRATEGY PROPOSAL e-School

SEDULITY SOLUTIONS & TECHNOLOGIES, NEW DELHI, INDIA

RAMAN PAL M.SC. WEB TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS & COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON RP5G09@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK STUDENT ID: 23758368

Executive Summary
The present market conditions are highly competitive, saving or earning maximum profit increases your possibility of winning over your competitors. Sedulity being No. 1 in the field of IT Trainings and courses - it is a very important and challenging task to maintain its lead on his competitors. This e-business proposal will talk about implementation of E-School for Sedulity Training Wing. E-School is based on the concept of Virtual Learning Environment, which has been used by lots of International Bodies and Universities for educational purposes. This project will be run under the direct supervision of Mr. Mukul Girdhar (Vice President Operations & Trainings). Estimated time of execution 3 Months.

Sedulitys Training Wing

This wing was started in the year 2001 for providing IT Trainings & Courses. Major hubs are located in New Delhi, Maharashtra, J&K, Punjab & Rajasthan. Three different type of programs are run by this wing: a) Classroom programme at Sedulity learning centres. b) On-site training programs for the corporate trainings. c) Distance learning programme for students and professional. Presently, the course material for Classroom Programme & On-Site Training Programme is as follows: a) CDs/ DVDs with Audio/Visual Tutorials & Presentations. b) Books c) Classroom Sessions In Distance Learning Program the Classroom sessions are not provided everything else remains the same.

Problem Statement
Content management is not possible for the things taught in classroom sessions. Lectures delivered and queries dealt once in a class cant be presented again. Restricted time for lectures and classroom programs are restricted to only one location at one time. The method of training by using audio/visual clips and presentation is quite old and has now been adopted by the other competitors. Present system is capable to handle only 30 Corporate Training Projects out of 45, thus making Annual loss of 33.3%. In Figures. Each Corporate Training Project = GBP 5,000 15 Corporate Training Projects/year= 5,000 x 15 Annual Loss= GBP 75,000

E-Business Proposal: E-School

E-School as the name suggests will be a 24x7 Online School, where the trainers and students from all the courses will unite. All trainings/courses will then be controlled and conducted on the E-School. Students & Teachers can access all the resources with the their Login IDs. The trainers/teachers will upload their presentations, videos and study material online and will make a virtual classroom environment. Students can attend tutorial sessions practically anytime & from anywhere they want and can post their queries. Queries raised in a particular session will be answered by the teacher/trainer and will be listed alongside the topic.

Students/Professionals enrolled under Distant Learning Programmes

or On-Site trainings will be getting the maximum benefits. Implementation of this system will allow the work force to get engaged in more projects and will cut down lots of other expenditures.

E-School v/s Present System

Features 24x7 Access to classroom Course Material E-School Yes, E-school allows the students and teachers to access the classroom 24x7. Yes, available online 24x7. And can be accessed from anywhere in the world. And books will still be a part of course materials. Present System No, allows access only during the office hours. CDs, DVDs and books.

Assignments

Yes, all the students can upload and download their assignments and feedbacks.

Yes, students have to submit assignment in the learning centre either in person or by postal mails. No No No No, No, only students of classroom programs can collaborate into working together. No

Upload and share documents Online quizzes /tests Online Student Record Online Discussions Online Work Groups

Yes, this system enables the users to upload the content and share with his peers. Yes, online tests and quizzes can be conducted. Yes, student performance in all the sessions and quizzes will be monitored and recorded. Yes, users can form a group and can hold debates and discussion on any topic. Yes, allows the users to collaborate and work together in a groups.

Online Feedback System

Yes, users can give anonymous feedback about the course, tutor and other things.

E-School Prototype

Teacher putting Course work online, and replying to queries.

Student attending online sessions & posting queries

E-School Architecture

E-School Implementation Schedule

Sedulitys E-school will be developed completely in-house by Sedulitys Development Team, thus allowing us to keep the development cost to minimum. The project will be using the old scrap of a similar project which was left incomplete, thus allowing us to cut short the development time. This system will take some very best features from VLE systems like Moodle and WebCT.

Stages
Development Uploads Testing Stage1 Beta Launch Evaluations & Modifications Stage2 Testing

Tasks
Requirement Analysis, system design, D/B Mgmt., etc. Uploading content into the D/B and website. In-house testing. Beta testing by the users. Based on the feedback from beta testing, implementations of shortcoming of the system. Final round of testing and evaluations.

Day(s)
20 7 3 40 10

10

E-School Cost Estimation Cost Factor

Human Resource: Tester + Developer Servers, Web Space, etc. Content for Website (Presentation, Videos, Quizzes, Assignments, etc)

No.
3+5 3 As per courses.

Expense
[50(D) x 20]x8= 8000 Sedulity owns 3 servers. Cost= 0 Content for the website can be taken from the CDs & DVDs of study material for present system. Cost = 0

Estimated time to payback

Proposal is targeted to cater 600 Students/year for Classroom Training program. 600 Students/year for Distance Learning program. 1200 Students/Year Sedulity conducts 30 corporate training programs every year. Each training session has minimum batch strength of 30 participants. 30 Training x 30 participants 900 Professionals/Year Each copy of Study Material consisting of Single User DVDs Pack = 42 Thus cost of 1200+900 copies of study material = 42x2100 Therefore, Net Savings = 88200/Year

Thus the Implementation Cost of 8000 can be covered in a period less than 2 months.

Potential Risk Involved

People: The new learning environment for the students and professionals and might be a challenge for them to learn to use it. Countermeasure :Introductory sessions can be given for the first time users, so that they can understand the system. Technology: Technical defects can affect the growth of system, and it is quite possible that some design related issues will also creep in. Countermeasure : A dedicated team of professionals can be made and all the issues reported, will be managed by them.

References
www.sedulitygroups.com www.tmu.sedulity.com www.wiziq.com Internet Business Models and Strategies: Text and Cases by Allan Afuah E-business (R)evolution, The by Daniel Amor e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success (2nd Edition) by Ravi Kalakota

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