Five Fellows - What other groups are doing?

 

This week we will introduce you to the projects of other groups. We hear what the groups do, what goals they have set and what kind of feeling the group has about their own project. Without further ado, let’s see what other groups have to say about their projects!

 

Project Competence Mapping by team Trip to top

We are ”Trip to top”! Our great team includes Jere Viitanen (project manager), Nestori Auriola, Eemil Uitto, Satu Päällysaho and Seppo Aalto. Our project is to compose a competence map for sales engineers in co-operation with other European universities that offer sales engineer studies. Our group name represents idea that when you find the most necessary personal skills to improve as a Sales Engineer you can proceed faster in your career. Therefore, competence map for Sales Engineers can be found very useful.

At the moment we are building questionnaire and prospecting universities and teachers to get started with inquiry as soon as possible. Later on, we will possibly also approach our classmates with this questionnaire. If you have something to ask about our project or ideas for competence mapping don’t be afraid to contact us.

 

Project Sales Lab

We are Sales Lab Engineers, and we are group 7 doing project work for Timo Holopainen himself. Our project team consists of four sales engineers: Patrik Leivonen, Juho Tossavainen, Tommi Papinsaari and Eetu Pölönen.

Our project task is to get familiarized to the Sales Lab equipment and methodologies. Then we will plan and conduct a competitor analysis and find out what kind of sales, behavioural and marketing laboratories exist in Baltic Sea, Nordic and other areas. Then we will gather all the information that we have received and make a report based on it. This final report will help Sales Lab to improve their methods and gather needed info for their launch in March.

 

Getting International by Team Worldwide

Our project team consist of Eemeli Nurminen, Tuomas Iivari, Rosaliina Nurmi, Tomi Kaunisto and Markus Malin. Dream team, we would say.

Our project is about planning and conducting a research and report in a form of article about “how acting as buyer in international sales competitions improve internationalization competences”. We will complete the research by doing interviews for five to ten buyers from last year’s European Sales Competition. We have Timo Holopainen as a help for writing the article.

Our goal is to have successful interviews and write a good enough article to be published, and of course have fun while doing all of this.

We have been enjoying the project so far and are starting interviews after the holidays.

 

Project Research

Our project group consists of Jenna Holopainen, Christian Grundström, Wille Aho, Senni Kopra and Samuel Salmenranta. Our original project goal was to make a barometer about sales in the companies located in Southwest Finland, but the subject accidentally changed. And changed for better.

We are now doing research about demand of sales engineers in Finland. We are calculating how many job advertisements we can find via Monster, Oikotie, Duunitori and LinkedIn. Then we will also contact these companies by email and request them to answer to our survey. Questions are still open, but the main point is to get to know what their need of sales engineers is now and especially in the future. We also might make an article of this research for Turku University of Applied Sciences in the end of the project.

We find this project really interesting as it is really concrete and valuable information to all of us.

 

Project ESC Interviews by Salesninjas

Our project, the European Sales Competition Interviews is all about getting familiar with the competition. Our mission, as the name of the project may reveal is to contact the last years finalists for an interview and then plan, produce and later on publish a compressed video of the interviews which would give the new potential competitors a better insight of the competition and maybe provide some helpful tips for the upcoming event. The video will be published later in ESC or TUAS website.

In our team there are four members: Lena Zengel who works as the project manager, Aino Hakkarainen who also serves as a deputy director, Waltteri Laiho and Kia Freudenthal.

As you can see, we have many different projects going on and we will definitely tell you in the late spring what kind of outcome each group has achieved.

Stay tuned!

–  Five Fellows