1. Contacts
   1. Professor Stanley Nollen nollens@georgetown.edu Phone: +1 202 687 3826 Mobile: +1 202 641 3052 Skype: nollens
   2. Mr. Nagaraja Rao nr@dawnconsulting.com Phone: +91 90 41142626 Mobile: +91 94 48474814 Skype: ???
   3. Ash Abusamak asa80@georgetown.edu Mobile: +1 3105073951 Skype: ashraf_airman
2. Dawn Consulting
   1. BUSINESS ISSUE to be addressed?
3. To Do
   1. One-Page Resume
   2. Report to us your team communicator
   3. Determine virtual communication mode
   4. Introduce your team to your client company project leader
   5. Establish your team meeting schedule
      1. Virtual meetings with your client people
         1. 1st Meeting
            1. Introducing of the Team (One page CVs)
            2. BUSINESS ISSUE to be addressed
            3. Non-Disclosure Agreement
            4. Schedule for the next 3 meetings
         2. 2nd
         3. 3rd
         4. 4th
      2. With your faculty advisor
         1. 1st Meeting 8-12/oct/12
            1. Project Briefing form the faculty, client's background and project issue
            2. Team's Report and its organization
            3. Report de 2 way communication w/client
            4. Restatement of Business Issue
            5. Schedule Team and Client Meetings
         2. 2nd Meeting 3-7/dec/12
            1. Results from studies on company's data, industry/market and business issue
            2. Sketch of frameworks or models to be used in the analysis
            3. Work plan for the project up to 4th module
         3. 3rd Meeting 7-11/jan/13
            1. Display the data used in the analysis
            2. Preliminary findings
            3. One-page sentence outline (report's table of contents)
            4. Schedule for client meetings in Bangalore and presentation dates fixed
         4. 4th Meeting 4-8/feb/13
            1. Incomplete drafts os most chapters, including findings and recommendations
            2. Opening slides and draft of key slides for findings and recommendations
            3. Plans for field research in Bangalore
      3. And among yourselves
   6. Conduct your first team meeting with your faculty advisor
   7. Conduct your first team meeting with your client people
4. Readings
   1. India remains a solar power laggard 09/12/2012 - thehindubusinessline.com
   2. Solar power on every rooftop 09/19/2012 - thehindubusinessline.com
   3. Are US low interest loans for solar projects in India a boon or a bane for the industry? 09/22/2012 - electronicsb2b.com
   4. Doha Climate Change Conference - November 2012 unfccc.int/2860.php
5. On-Line Reference
   1. Climate Technology Initiative climatetech.net/
   2. REEEP is a market catalyst for renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries and emerging markets. reeep.org
   3. PPL International is a Financing Advisor specialized in delivering Complex Transactions in Developing Countries & Economies in Transition. ppl-int.com/
   4. The Energy and Resources Institute teriin.org
   5. International Energy Agency iea.org
6. Writen Materials
   1. The economics of solar power june 2008 - McKinsey & Company
   2. Solar Energy Industry - An Industry Perspective april 2009 - PVGroup
   3. Polysilicon: “Survival of the Fittest”? 05/07/2012 - Nexant Consulting
   4. Sector Focus: Solar A special excerpt from Cleantech Group’s march 2012 - Cleantech Group
   5. Solar Energy Industry Unknown
7. Expected Results
   1. What am I contributing of value to my client?
      1. What am I offering that the client doesn’t already know?
      2. There is value in confirming the client’s expectations, and there is value in suggesting new ideas.
   2. Why should my client and the faculty believe my findings and implement my recommendations?
      1. How can I support and defend my work?
8. Project Assets
   1. We need a clear and concrete issue to resolve
   2. Knowledge of past experience about this issue
   3. Frameworks (theories, models) that guide our inquiry
   4. Hypotheses about the answers
   5. Data to apply to the hypotheses Cite the source
   6. Analysis of the data using the frameworks
   7. Findings that derive transparently from the analysis
   8. Recommendations that follow from the findings
9. Schedule
   1. Consulting Project Practicum Calendar
      1. CPP Project Calendar.pdf
10. Project Tools
    1. WebEx Conference Call