Post by Gregg Caplitz on Sept 20, 2021 13:01:40 GMT
A. Considering your "capstone" project--please be prepared to discuss the following questions in class on Sept 24:
Begin your planning and be prepared to discuss your topic.
Why did you choose this topic?
The process of working with returning citizens is becoming an increasingly important part of CWS Mission. Currently, we work with an ad hoc group of nonprofit organizations and government agencies who refer individual returning citizens’ post-release. This is inefficient, time consuming and allows many returning citizens to “fall through the cracks” A much more efficient system would be to beginning working with inmate’s prerelease. This requires a partnership with the DOC and County correction sites. The purpose of this planned project is to marry the existing infrastructure with a new “behind the wall piece”
What do you hope to accomplish?
The purpose of the proposed project, as mentioned in my answer above, is marry the existing infrastructure with a new “behind the wall piece”. This should allow CWS to serve many more returning citizens in this important demographic far more efficiently and more economically. Currently Massachusetts has more than 22,000 individuals incarcerated in federal, state, and county jails. In addition over 70,000 individuals are arrested and processed through local jails. The vast majority of these individuals will return to society. The question this project is designed to help answer is whether these people will receive the training to help them reintegrate into society or simply reoffend and return to prison.
B. The following article offers ideas about how to approach a new project--which you will be creating as your final assignment--and planning to integrate into your work area. Please read the article and then post your answer to the question below on the Discussion Boar
What additional questions might you consider as you build your project?
1. Can we get the required workforce partners to hire our graduates?
2. Can we successfully form a partnership with one or more correctional sites to begin “behind the wall” training?
3. Can we get instructors willing to go “behind the wall” and teach?
4. Can we successfully place individual graduates
5. Can we measure the metrics that matter to show the performance?
6. Can we do a proof of concept at one facility
7. Can we expand the concept, first statewide and then nationally through Fedcap?
B. This article on innovation offers a variety of history and approaches to innovation. Choose one or two of the approaches and do a bit more research to determine what might be most applicable to your project.
The Innovator’s Dilemma is the concept I choose to expand on. This is a theory originally propounded by Harvard Professor and businessman Clayton Christensen. This theory proposes that successful and outstanding company can do everything right and still lose market leadership or even fail as new and unexpected competitors rise and take over the market. The theory proposes an S curve in which improving a product requires many iterations the first of which provides little value. At some point in the middle value is maximized. In summary a disruptive innovation is one that creates a new market and value network that will eventually disrupt an existing market and replace an existing product.
This idea has potential value to our proposed product. Currently, there is an existing network of providing educational and work force training to prison inmates. This service is often provided by the various DOCs themselves in a piece mail fashion. It is inefficient, expensive and has not produced significant results. This project presents the potential opportunity to replace this process with an outsourced service provided efficiently, effectively and successfully to DOCs
Begin your planning and be prepared to discuss your topic.
Why did you choose this topic?
The process of working with returning citizens is becoming an increasingly important part of CWS Mission. Currently, we work with an ad hoc group of nonprofit organizations and government agencies who refer individual returning citizens’ post-release. This is inefficient, time consuming and allows many returning citizens to “fall through the cracks” A much more efficient system would be to beginning working with inmate’s prerelease. This requires a partnership with the DOC and County correction sites. The purpose of this planned project is to marry the existing infrastructure with a new “behind the wall piece”
What do you hope to accomplish?
The purpose of the proposed project, as mentioned in my answer above, is marry the existing infrastructure with a new “behind the wall piece”. This should allow CWS to serve many more returning citizens in this important demographic far more efficiently and more economically. Currently Massachusetts has more than 22,000 individuals incarcerated in federal, state, and county jails. In addition over 70,000 individuals are arrested and processed through local jails. The vast majority of these individuals will return to society. The question this project is designed to help answer is whether these people will receive the training to help them reintegrate into society or simply reoffend and return to prison.
B. The following article offers ideas about how to approach a new project--which you will be creating as your final assignment--and planning to integrate into your work area. Please read the article and then post your answer to the question below on the Discussion Boar
What additional questions might you consider as you build your project?
1. Can we get the required workforce partners to hire our graduates?
2. Can we successfully form a partnership with one or more correctional sites to begin “behind the wall” training?
3. Can we get instructors willing to go “behind the wall” and teach?
4. Can we successfully place individual graduates
5. Can we measure the metrics that matter to show the performance?
6. Can we do a proof of concept at one facility
7. Can we expand the concept, first statewide and then nationally through Fedcap?
B. This article on innovation offers a variety of history and approaches to innovation. Choose one or two of the approaches and do a bit more research to determine what might be most applicable to your project.
The Innovator’s Dilemma is the concept I choose to expand on. This is a theory originally propounded by Harvard Professor and businessman Clayton Christensen. This theory proposes that successful and outstanding company can do everything right and still lose market leadership or even fail as new and unexpected competitors rise and take over the market. The theory proposes an S curve in which improving a product requires many iterations the first of which provides little value. At some point in the middle value is maximized. In summary a disruptive innovation is one that creates a new market and value network that will eventually disrupt an existing market and replace an existing product.
This idea has potential value to our proposed product. Currently, there is an existing network of providing educational and work force training to prison inmates. This service is often provided by the various DOCs themselves in a piece mail fashion. It is inefficient, expensive and has not produced significant results. This project presents the potential opportunity to replace this process with an outsourced service provided efficiently, effectively and successfully to DOCs