Tuesday, March 22, 2016

March 16 - At Work in Casablanca...


Quite the adventure in Morocco.  I’m finding that I’m spending 1/2 of the day working, 1/2 of the day exploring, and the other 1/2 sleeping/relaxing.

Our work assignment is proceeding well.  We met with our sponsor, Amina Benamar, on Tuesday afternoon.  We presented the progress on our deliverables.  Obviously we’re further ahead on understanding the challenges with the current state of the Jamiati.ma portal.   The team has also conducted some investigation into competitors – we’re in the process of distilling that information and putting the findings into a deliverable format.   The recommendations and proposed action plan are less mature than the other findings.  Nothing unusual given that we’re only into our 9th day of work.
 
We hit the mark on the first two deliverables.  There’s some work remaining on the last two deliverables.  
While the content is good, we need to work on the implementation plan including both tactical and strategic recommendations.

Exploring the city and what it has to offer has been super.  At the end of the work day yesterday, we were given a tour of a Transaharan art and artifact exhibit sponsored by the bank.  






The coolest part of the exhibit was the work that students did.  Teachers were brought in to teach the students how to draw.  The quality for much of the work is amazing (I wish I were that talented).




Following this, we went on a walk down to the coast to see the Hassan II Mosque.  It was amazing.  I had missed the tour with the rest of the team because of my travel woes in getting to Casablanca.


Today, we’re focused on cleaning up our first two deliverables and fleshing out the details for the remaining two deliverables.

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