Audience-Purpose-Occasion
This presentation was aimed at Sabre executives and managers who judged the Intern Business Case Competition during the summer of 2014.
Notes
Application: Microsoft PowerPoint.
I spent the summer of 2014 as an intern with Sabre in Southlake, Texas. Part of that internship was the Intern Business Case Competition. The summer interns were placed in four groups of four interns, and we had to create and pitch a new app for the Sabre Red Travel Network platform, used by travel agents to book travel for clients. We didn’t build a working app; we just had to develop the idea, business case, and mockups of how we thought it would look.
My team included Annie Agarwal, a business process improvement intern working on her MBA; Nick Salinaro, an undergraduate intern in corporate communications and investor relations; and Liujia Hu, a mathematician interning as a senior operations research analyst.
My duties were to create and write the presentation, design the wireframe mockups of our Red App, and develop the app’s workflow. I also came up with the name, Dossier, and designed the logo.
Annie was the effective team leader. She came up with the idea for an app that helps speed the travel documents process, kept the team on task, and did a lot of our research. Nick came up with the storyline for the presentation, and Liujia checked our numbers and presented the financials.
The presentation was built using the PowerPoint template then used by the Sabre Travel Network. We used some graphics from Dreamstime.com, especially the pictures of our two characters. I created the app wireframes using screenshots of the Sabre Red platform interface. Sabre’s developers have a PowerPoint tools package with standard interface elements; I used some of those as well.
The other teams used original templates they designed; I believe that our use of the official template greatly improved our credibility/ethos.
We won the case competition. Our prize was an Ilumi smartbulb, which I still use in my bedside lamp today.
Click the image below for a PDF version of the presentation; the accompanying script is linked as a Word file below the image. I’ve also included the PowerPoint file which includes the narration, and a Word file with supplemental information for the judges.
