CodeWise Market Expansion Research

We currently exist in one market, but we believe we are ready to take our business to the next level and expand our scope of locations. With your help, we hope to assess our customer landscape beyond the demographics we currently cater to by learning about their expectations and behaviors. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:Researching the target market in potential new locations including demographic data such as spending power, proximity, accessibility, and location appeal, and creating a weighted decision matrix to assign importance to each factor.Creating a survey based on the location and demographic information above to be distributed by our company.Analyzing survey data using the weighted decision matrix to decide on the best location options for us to expand to.Compiling a report including the location analysis, and optimal location recommendations.

CodeWise Software Architecture Support

CodeWise would like to explore software architecture and open source support for a new or existing product. In advance of any product build, our company spends a good amount of time researching potential technologies, architectures, and how they will fit together to fit our customer’s needs. We would like you to evaluate our current or new product’s needs and compare that against current open source technologies and architectural patterns to develop an overall software architecture we could use to implement in our product.This will involve:Conduct background research on our product.Identify what open source software is available and what software architecture patterns would be best suited towards this application.Creation of a detailed software architecture model, highlighting key components, software, patterns and anything else needed.

CodeWise Mobile App UI / UX Design & Prototype

CodeWise would like to explore designing a prototype for a native mobile application version of our current web based product. We currently have a lot of traffic to our product via the web and we would like to start to attempt to capture some of that user activity via a mobile application. Tasks may include: Conducting background research on our existing web application for the product. Identifying key areas of our current product and how they might translate to a mobile application.Learning and using various software design tools. We strongly recommend students learn how to use Figma as this is the latest and greatest tool currently available.Creation of a screen by screen UX / UI prototype of a native mobile application which can be used on both iOS and AndroidConducting UX / UI testing with real potential users potentially involving paper prototypes or other software tools to support this

CodeWise Market Validation Study

We are looking to gain a better understanding of our target market to make sure there is a need and demand for our product. This will allow us to determine if we are targeting the right segments to be as profitable as possible. We hope to ensure that we are offering the appropriate elective benefits and using our marketing budget in the most effective ways. Tasks:Assess the size of our market with metrics such as sales data and number of manufacturers, and compare them to the size of our customer base to determine our market share and how many potential customers we could obtain.Analyze our current offerings and the positioning of our brand.Create a survey and interview questions for empirical interviews to be conducted by our company’s management to gain feedback on our brand, products, and services.Analyze survey and interview results to create recommendations on how to improve our positioning, branding and products/services.