Day 17. June 11, 2007
Our day began with breakfast at 7:00 AM. Teams met with their Accelerator coaches to review the past 2 weeks and launch Week 3 (we're at the half-way point). At 8:00 AM, Dr. Hoeffler provided another Marketing session to coach the teams on Whirlpool, Lexus and American Airlines projects.
At 9:30 AM, the teams met to work on their Gresham Project. They spent most of the morning evaluating the "big idea" opportunities that might drive economic growth to the Germantown market in Nashville. At Lunch, members of the FedEx team arrived from the Memphis office and our Accelerator the teams prepped to set up their presentations for FedEx. FedEx team members included: Michael Dones, Chris Douglas, Lisa Menuskin, and Andy Miller.
At 12:30, the Accelerator teams began their FedEx presentations. Speaking order: Team 3 (Clay), Team 2 (Kristin), Team 4 (Meg), Team 1 (Patrick) and Team 5 (Thomas). At 2:00 PM, the FedEx team deliberated and selected Team 5 (Thomas) in 1st Place. Members of the winning team include: Travis Bernard, Mark Bowling, Charlie Carroll, Adrian Jaimes, Chris Kierstead, Mallory Shafer, Burleson Smith, Andrew Smith-Mui and Mark Watson. Ranking of other teams by FedEx were: Team 1 (Patrick) placed second, Team 3 (Clay) placed third, Team 4 (Meg) placed fourth and Team 2 (Kristin) placed fifth.
Member of the winning team were given a FedEx World Cup computer bag and will be traveling to the FedEx world headquarters to spend the afternoon in the FedEx flight simulators. They will then have dinner with members of the FedEx executive team prior to returning to Nashville.
At 3:00 PM, we began the Operations portion of Accelerator with 2 Sessions with Dr. Michael Lapre. After a quick dinner, the teams returned to their team rooms to work on the Gresham Smith project. We ended the day at 9:00 PM. Lots of tired eyes but high energy.
Our day began with breakfast at 7:00 AM. Teams met with their Accelerator coaches to review the past 2 weeks and launch Week 3 (we're at the half-way point). At 8:00 AM, Dr. Hoeffler provided another Marketing session to coach the teams on Whirlpool, Lexus and American Airlines projects.
At 9:30 AM, the teams met to work on their Gresham Project. They spent most of the morning evaluating the "big idea" opportunities that might drive economic growth to the Germantown market in Nashville. At Lunch, members of the FedEx team arrived from the Memphis office and our Accelerator the teams prepped to set up their presentations for FedEx. FedEx team members included: Michael Dones, Chris Douglas, Lisa Menuskin, and Andy Miller.
At 12:30, the Accelerator teams began their FedEx presentations. Speaking order: Team 3 (Clay), Team 2 (Kristin), Team 4 (Meg), Team 1 (Patrick) and Team 5 (Thomas). At 2:00 PM, the FedEx team deliberated and selected Team 5 (Thomas) in 1st Place. Members of the winning team include: Travis Bernard, Mark Bowling, Charlie Carroll, Adrian Jaimes, Chris Kierstead, Mallory Shafer, Burleson Smith, Andrew Smith-Mui and Mark Watson. Ranking of other teams by FedEx were: Team 1 (Patrick) placed second, Team 3 (Clay) placed third, Team 4 (Meg) placed fourth and Team 2 (Kristin) placed fifth.
Member of the winning team were given a FedEx World Cup computer bag and will be traveling to the FedEx world headquarters to spend the afternoon in the FedEx flight simulators. They will then have dinner with members of the FedEx executive team prior to returning to Nashville.
At 3:00 PM, we began the Operations portion of Accelerator with 2 Sessions with Dr. Michael Lapre. After a quick dinner, the teams returned to their team rooms to work on the Gresham Smith project. We ended the day at 9:00 PM. Lots of tired eyes but high energy.
