The Fortune Cooker Project, a detailed summary

It was a regular Wednesday morning, and we had not heard from Farida – our local facilitator – for a couple of days. As Farida contacts her husband in The Netherlands daily and values good communication with us, not having heard from her worried us. After having called her for several times during the past two days, we decided to pay her a visit. Just to make sure everything was fine.

In the past ten weeks, we have had the wonderful opportunity to get acquainted with the warmth and the values the Moroccans live by. Moroccan culture is one that differs endlessly with the cultures we’re used to in the Western world, and getting to know it has been a treat. It was also a crucial experience for the Fortune Cooker Project. THE FORTUNE COOKER PROJECT “To adapt an environmentally…

Introduction and timeline Although the project plan contained a risk analysis of the project and we felt well-prepared, events turned out much different than expected and in some cases different from what we had hoped. There are many factors that influenced the turn of events, apart from the fact that we did not always make the right choices. In this the encountered problems have had an influence…

Morocco is one the most developed countries in Africa, but that certainly doesn’t mean that it is similar to other developed countries we know in western culture. The prologue describes a series of typical Moroccan events. In this chapter is described how this can influence both the execution of the project and the future use of the Fortune Cooker. We immediately experienced that Moroccans are…

As this report described the first time the Fortune Cooker Project has been carried out, as well as the first time the product has been introduced to its aspired customers, this project has not yet been able to significantly contribute to development in the area of research. Although there have not been concrete results, such as the implementation of the product to the market, that would…

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