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Pismere Business Models - report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Wed May 19 10:07:31 1999
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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:02:53 -0400
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From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: marine@mit.edu, nschmidt@mit.edu, ljr@mit.edu, tomt@mit.edu
Project Name: Pismere Business Models
Project Leaders: Naomi Schmidt, Marine Brown, Lorraine Rappaport
Report Date May 19, 1999
Submitted by: Greg Anderson
URL: http://mit.edu/pismere/business/business.html
Accomplishments past period
- Presentation of model based on scenario of dept. cluster (12 machines)
where IS pays for equipment.
- Presentation and update session for Tom Thornton, Pismere Project
Manager, on Wed, May 12.
- Presentation to larger business model discussion group on Monday, May 17.
- Presentation by Naomi Schmidt as part of ACMG meeting on Tuesday, May 18.
Goals for the coming period
- Refine the business model: additional input from Carla Fermann, Brian
Murphy, and others to add precision to the model.
Issues
- Based on the ACMG discussions, the need to explore additional scenarios
(e.g. machines are private but want to participate in Pismere services,
software licensing, etc.)
- The iterative process of building this model feels right - there are many
variables and possible scenarios, so working the model against those
changes helps validate and inform the work.
Key learnings
- There is a lot of information that needs to be gathered and staff are
interested in participating.
- The discussions are rich and critical to moving the work forward.
Team dynamics:
- There is a widening area of participation and input into the work.
Marine, Lorraine, and Naomi are doing a very good job maintaining and
updating the information as new inputs are received. The process of
building the model is being validated through the discussions.
Additional comments:
- Tom Thornton's arrival is most welcome. He still seems to have a thirst
for information even after drinking from the Pismere firehose.
