Day 10. June 4, 2007Our day began with a coach’s breakfast meeting at our hotel. The Accelerator teams meet to assign roles for each team member for the FedEx project. Once team roles were assigned, we proceeded to the bus to depart for FedEx World Headquarters (www.fedex.com).
We arrived at the FedEx at 8:30 AM. We were directed to the auditorium to launch the FedEx project. The initial FedEx remarks were made by Karen Rogers, VP of Global Marketing; Michael Dones and Chris Douglass. This team has challenged our Accelerator team to build a loyalty program for small businesses (1-99 employees) that encompasses the entire FedEx and FedEx Kinko’s brand.
The FedEx staff were great hosts to Vanderbilt’s Accelerator 2007 group. Our teams did breakout sessions in the afternoon to organize their project plan for FedEx, confirm team roles, evaluate the data, and brainstorm ideas for innovation. We headed out of FedEx at 5:00 PM to the hotel for a quick change prior to the Baseball game – we’re going to see the Memphis Redbirds tonight.
