Today we had a meeting with Takeshi-san and Maru-san to talk about what we would like to get out of this project and what our goals are. Since the process varies slightly in the way it is executed from the process in Amsterdam, and since our ‘Insight‘ presentation is scheduled for this coming Saturday, we had some choices to make.
f.l.t.r.: Takeshi-san, Nour, Maru-kun
f.l.t.r.: Maru-kun, Evelien, Takeshi-kun
The Insight workshop, is a 2 day event at Kyushu University where we will have to present the research we have conducted, our current insights/ hypotheses and what our next steps are going to be.
With this presentation teams will be able to attract potential team members that are interested in the project and would like help us research and develop this idea further.
To prepare ourselves some more, we tried to establish a few goals we would like to achieve with this project and look at target groups to whom these goals might be applicable and target groups that we found interesting.
Goals everyone on the team had in common regarding the work environment:
- Preventing future health issues
- Increasing the happiness of the employees / people
- Increasing the time spent outside of work, with family/friends/self.
- Changing the minds of both the employees as well as the higher up’s regarding the work environment.
- Redesigning the work mentality / space / custom / LIFE*.
- Mutual understanding between the older and the younger generation.
- Eliminating prejudice; Giving the older generation the opportunity to work with/coach the younger generation.
- Keeping the older generation updated when it comes to technological developments.
*With redesigning life we are targeting the employees that have devoted so much of their time and energy to their jobs, that once they retire, they have to rediscover themselves again.
Potential target groups*:
- Employees in traditional companies
- Older female population**
- Retired workforce
- Employees soon to retire
- Low paid employees in their 50’s ~ 70’s
- Teachers
- Families
*The target groups written out are based on preliminary research we have conducted.
**From research we have conducted, we have noticed that the female population in Japan outlives the male by at least 10 years. That being said, they also are the ones that need the most care regarding nursing.