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Mobile Application
Development Report
2016
App Development Marketing Research
Dr. Jennifer Zarzosa
May 4th, 2016
Prepared for:
Henderson State University School of Business
President and Provost
By:
John Kennedy
Katie Miley
Sasha Zavala
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary …………………………………………………………………………………...2
Problem & Approach
Research Design
Major Results……………………………………………………………………………………...3
Recommendations ……………………………………………………………………………..….3
Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………...5
Major Secondary Research
Management Problem 6
Research Questions
Method……………………………………………………………………………………………….....6
Overall Research Design 6
Qualitative Research Design
Qualitative Data Analysis/Results………………………………………………………………...7
In-depth Faculty Interviews 7
In-depth Alumni Interviews …..………………………………………………………...8
Student Focus Groups
Quantitative Research Design ……..………………………………………………………….…9
Sampling Techniques & Sample Size
Scaling Techniques ……………………………………………………………………10
Questionnaire Development
Data Collection
Results ……………………………………………………………………………………………..…11
Research Question 1
Research Question 2
Research Question 3
Major Findings
Limitations
Conclusions and Recommendations ……………………………………………………………….11
Recommendation 1
Recommendation 2 ……………………………………………………………………………..12
Recommendation 3
Appendix …………………………………………………………………………………………..…14
1. Interview Guides
2. Questionnaire
4. Back-Up Data Tables
5. Data File
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Executive Summary
Problem & Approach
The Marketing App Development Interns at Henderson State University started a
marketing research project to assist Henderson State University School of Business in
Arkadelphia, AR. This project has been created with the purpose of determining the overall
engagement and usability of mobile applications from different stakeholders at the university's
school of business. The overall goal of this project is to integrate new tools to ease the
communication between stakeholders. We have conducted qualitative and quantitative research
while working in a cross-disciplinary team, along with school’s innovative media and
communication departments to create a mobile application prototype. This is to be presented as
part of the new strategic plan for the School of Business that will hopefully bring current and
future Reddies together in an engaging and innovative way.
In this report, we will be analyzing the qualitative and quantitative research findings from
our stakeholders at Henderson State University, School of Business, Faculty, Students, and
Alumni.
ResearchDesign:
The app development interns began by speaking with Dr. Louis Dawkins Dean of the
School of Business along with Associate Dean Dr. Nathaniel Campbell to get an insight to find
our research problem and questions. The interns then searched and interviewed stakeholders in
the target market. Using our secondary research (benchmarking) and our interviews data we were
able to create a survey via Qualtrics Premium Survey builder. After the survey had been created,
the survey was tested by the interns to fix problems before being sent out to our mailing list. A
total of 391 emails were sent via Qualtrics, containing emails from our stakeholders. From those
emails 376 were students, and 15 were faculty. 121 surveys had been created, and 114 were
completed with a response rate of 33%.
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Major Results:
After looking at the results from both Qualitative and Quantitative research, we
determined that students were interested in having an event calendar, a feature that had
information about job/internship opportunities, degree information/plans, and a feature that
would allow them to check their grades. Faculty were interested in an event calendar feature,
student degree information, a directory, and job/internship opportunities for the students. Faculty
were also interested in the GA and MBA program information being added to the app. Alumni
wanted an event calendar and to see program information the School of Business is currently
doing.
Recommendations
Recommendation 1: Student A/B Testing
● As part of our ambitious plan we were hoping to have two or more prototypes at the end
of the semester to be able to do A/B testing of layouts, design, features, etc. Due to lack
of time we recommend for future marketing research students at the School of Business
to take on this project in the upcoming fall semester to conduct a more thorough and
complex A/B testing phase that will guide and help with future development and
promotion of the mobile application for the school.
Recommendation 2: Promotion
● Once the mobile application has been approved through iOS and Android stores, we
recommend the School of Business promote the mobile application through different
IMC (Integrated Marketing Communications) channels such as social media, social share
(word of mouth), public relations, videos, websites, and events.
● The School of Business can create social media content to be shared through their
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. This content can be infographics or tutorial
videos on how to download and use the new mobile application.
● The School of Business can also create events through school organizations and programs
such as the “Business Beyond the Classroom” and “Center of Student Excellence” to
promote the app within the school, as well as having the Business Ambassadors promote
the app through word of mouth.
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● The School of Business along with Henderson State University’s Public Relations can
collaborate to create press releases concerning the new mobile application. These press
releases can contain personal interviews with new users explaining their experiences
while working/using the application. These press releases can also be shared through the
school’s website (www.hsu.edu) and social media accounts.
Recommendation 3: Campus Enlargement
If the mobile application were to be successful at the School of Business and were to be
taken into consideration to be a whole campus mobile application for Henderson State
University, we recommend to the school to hire a Mobile Application Developer with experience
in marketing and computer science to take over the project. Due to budget and resources, the
prototype application is supported by AppPresser, a WordPress application development
platform with limited features. If this mobile application would be taken for campus
enlargement, it would have to be supported by coding which is one of the features that
AppPresser does not require users to apply.
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INTRODUCTION
Henderson State University School of Business, is a higher education facility with 16%
of the university’s overall enrollment as business students in the different areas of Accounting,
Business Information Systems, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Management, Marketing, and MBA.
Since its establishment in 1933 Henderson State University School of Business has focused on
the individual welfare of its students by providing excellent faculty, enthusiastic students and
engaged partners to collaborate in experiential learning activities. Dr. Louis Dawkins Dean of
School of Business along with Dr. Nathan Campbell Assistant Dean worked on an idea to bring
the School of Business closer in communication via an innovative technology concept financed
by beauty expert and Henderson alumni Mrs. Shannon Curtin. As part of their new implemented
Strategic Plan, Henderson’s School of Business plans on integrating new tools to improve the
communication with different stakeholders such as Students, Alumni, and Faculty. Our goal is to
determine the needs and wants of these stakeholders to create a mobile application that will be
engaging and innovative to its users so it can improve the educational experience of current and
future Reddies at Henderson State University, School of Business.
Major Secondary ResearchFindings:
To begin our research, we started by benchmarking against mobile applications from
different Schools of Business on the iOS and Android platforms. This helped us gain a better
understanding of what features schools consider important on their mobile applications. Aside
from benchmarking against schools, we also researched popular mobile applications on both the
iOS and Android stores. By doing this, we discovered features that are common amongst all
mobile applications. All of the features that were discovered during our benchmarking phase
encompass the following:
● Event Calendar
● Directory
● Building Tours
● Grades
● Images
● Campus Maps
● Scrolling
● News Feed
● Side Swipe Layout
● Menus
● Course Information/Schedules
● Social Media
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Management Problem:
To determine how Henderson State University School of Business can better
communicate with their stakeholders. In answering this question, we conducted research to
conclude that the School of Business will have better communication with its stakeholders by
implementing a mobile application.
Researchquestions
What features do the students want in the School of Business mobile application?
What features do the faculty want in the School of Business mobile application?
What features do the alumni want in the School of Business mobile application?
Method
Overall ResearchDesign:
For the overall research design, we used both exploratory research and descriptive
research. Exploratory research was done by doing in-depth interviews with stakeholders and
studying secondary data (benchmarking). We then proceeded to descriptive research by
analyzing a survey that we created to collect primary data. We developed the survey after
gaining insight about stakeholders’ needs.
Qualitative Research Design:
For the qualitative design, the app development interns divided the stakeholders into
separate groups so that each intern could have a section of stakeholders they could interview.
These sections consisted of stakeholders that included students, alumni, and faculty. To select
our stakeholders for each focus group we created a screening questionnaire that let us separate
the focus group participants by phone usage and gender.
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Qualitative Data Analysis/ Results
In-depth Faculty Interviews
Different types of topics were asked during the interview with Faculty. Questions
concerning communication with students, information about a directory, school programs, and
calendars were some of the themes asked.
Trend 1: Internship
“It would be very beneficial to have potential employment information for students. Sometimes
people ask for part-time and full-time positions not only internships.”
Trend 2: Directory
“A directory would provide students with easy access to office hours, faculty emails, and
telephone numbers. I believe that all of us would like that to be in one place.”
Trend 3: Information about School of Business Programs
“We can put information about the different school programs like Beta Gamma Sigma, which is
the higher business honors in college that you can get, only top 7% of juniors and top 10% of
seniors get invited to be part of it. Sometimes people don't know how to be part of the
organization; you have to earn it with good grades.”
Trend 4: Event Calendar
“We do so many events that I think students may not be aware of. I think it would be wonderful
to have a better way to communicate events.”
Conclusion
After doing the in-depth interviews with the faculty, we noticed a recurring theme; they
wanted to open up more communication with students. Every feature that the faculty members
wanted to see (event calendar, program information, a directory, and internship information) was
related to sending out information to the user. We used these findings to inform our questions on
the survey. We specifically asked faculty members if they would like to see a social media
feature on the mobile application. A social media feature could be used to open up
communication between the students and the School of Business.
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In-depth Alumni Interviews
The themes that emerged were: Event Calendar, School Programs Information, Push
Notifications, and Social Media.
Trend 1: Event Calendar
“Communication within the fraternity was kind of a challenge. As a student involved, maybe
there’s some kind of events page for students…not just within Mooney, within the whole
university. A calendar of events of something like that would be cool.”
Trend 2: Program Information
“I want to see what new programs the business school is putting together. Where are we going 5
to 10 years and what should we be teaching? If we are not putting new programs into Henderson
to attract quality students for these different curriculums, then we’re making a bad mistake.”
Trend 3: Push Notifications
“I think that an app would go a long way if you could encourage alumni to download that app
and maybe even receive notifications, push notifications…everybody is connected with their
phone.”
Trend 4: Social Media
“If you want to connect alums, I think it would be really cool to have an alumni section to where
I could go in and see other alums and maybe connect with them in a way they wanna be.”
Conclusion
Based on the information we collected from the in-depth alumni interviews, we decided
we didn’t need to collect any information from alums on the survey. We learned that this
stakeholder wanted an event calendar to stay current with program activities on campus. One of
the most important trends was that every alumni mentioned was they would prefer push
notifications when new announcements were added to the mobile app. A social media aspect
would allow alums to stay in contact with both faculty and students.
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Student Focus Groups
Trend 1: Event Calendar
“I would like to see a calendar of events and have it send reminders of what’s happening.”
Trend 2: Push Notifications
“I would like to get notifications!That is what draws me to open my apps most of the time. If I were
to get notifications about class assignments, that would make my life so much easier.”
Trend 3: Directory
“Yeah, with easy access to all of the business faculty phone numbers and emails. They can have their
own profile; you can go to their profile and set up meeting times, check class information such as due
dates for assignments or when they will cancel classes that day.”
Trend 4: Internship Information
“Having a place where we can go look for internships would be cool to have, we don't hear much
about opportunities other than by word of mouth of professors, but I think having a place where we
can go to see the latest internships or job opportunities could be very beneficial to us.”
Conclusion
Our findings show that students are interested in an event calendar, push notifications, a
directory, and internship information from both alumni and other business owners. With this
information, we made sure to include questions asking about possible feature options on the
survey. We also wanted to ask questions about student/teacher communication to measure if
social media aspects would add value to the mobile application.
Quantitative ResearchDesign:
For our Quantitative research design, we used Qualtrics, a premium survey platform. Out of the
391 possible respondents, 140 started the survey, and 129 completed the survey.
· Sampling Techniques & Sample Size (for quantitative design): We used a census
sampling technique. The respondents were obtained through an email list from the School of
Business. The sample size was 391. Of the 391 people emailed, 140 started the survey, but only
129 completed it. There was a 33% response rate.
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· Scaling Techniques (for quantitative design):
Overall for the survey, we used multiple scales to include nominal and interval. The
nominal scale was used for demographic questions (gender). Interval scales were used mainly for
the opened ended questions (stakeholder opinions).
· Questionnaire Development (for quantitative design):
The questionnaire was developed in two steps. The first step was interviewing the
stakeholders to see what trends emerged and if there should be questions about those trends. We
decided that the questionnaire should include questions on the amount of phone usage, types of
apps the respondents use, features respondents want to see in a school of business app, how
respondents get school news, and demographic questions. The final step was sending out the
actual survey.
· Data Collection (for quantitative design):
For data collection we used the list of emails provided by the School of Business. We
sent the survey that we created in Qualtrics to 391 possible respondents. After a short period of
waiting for respondents to complete the survey, we ended up collecting data from 140 people
who attempted the survey, 129 of which completed it. The information was sent to Qualtrics
where the data was collected to be analyzed.
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RESULTS
ResearchQuestion 1: What features do the students want in the School of Business mobile
application?
ResearchQuestion 2: What features do the faculty want in the School Business mobile
application?
ResearchQuestion 3: What features do the alumni want in the School mobile application?
Major Findings:
The results of the both the qualitative and quantitative research show us the major overall
findings and can be broken down by stakeholder. Students were interested having an event
calendar, a feature that had information about job/internship opportunities, degree
information/plans, and a feature that would allow them to check their grades. Faculty were
interested in an event calendar feature, student degree information, a directory, and
job/internship opportunities for the students. Faculty were also interested in the GA and MBA
program information being added to the app. Alumni wanted an event calendar and to see
program information the School of Business is currently doing. All three stakeholder groups
wanted push notifications and to be able to communicate with each other through a social media
feature.
Limitations:
The overall project was limited in one major way: time. Another two months of data
collection would have helped us tremendously. We could have done in-depth interviews with
students and conducted A/B testing on the prototype of the app. With any research, the more
time the research is conducted, the more conclusive the data.
Conclusions and Recommendations
Recommendation 1: Student A/B Testing
As part of our ambitious plan, we were hoping to have two or more prototypes at the end
of the semester to be able to do A/B testing of layouts, design, features, etc. Due to lack of time
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we recommend for future marketing research students at the School of Business to take on this
project in the upcoming fall semester to conduct a more throughout and complex A/B testing
phase that will guide and help with future development and promotion of the mobile application
for the school.
Recommendation 2: Promotion
Once the mobile application has been approved through iOS and Android stores, and it's
ready for download, we recommend the School of Business to promote the mobile application
through different IMC (Integrated Marketing Communications) channels such as social media,
social share (word of mouth), public relations, videos, websites and events.
● The School of Business can create social media content to be shared through their
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. This content can be infographics or tutorial
videos on how to download and use the new mobile application.
● The School of Business can also create events through school organizations and programs
such as the “Business Beyond the Classroom” and “Center of Student Excellence” to
promote the app within the school as well as having the Business Ambassadors promote
the app through word of mouth.
● The School of Business along with Henderson State University’s Public Relations can
collaborate to create press releases concerning the new mobile application. These press
releases can contain personal interviews with new users explaining their experiences
while working/using the application. These press releases can also be shared through the
school’s website (www.hsu.edu) and social media accounts.
Recommendation 3: Campus Enlargement
If the mobile application were to be successful at the School of Business and were to be
taken into consideration to be a whole campus mobile application for Henderson State
University, we recommend to the school to hire a Mobile Application Developer with experience
in marketing and computer science to take over the project. Due to budget and resources, the
prototype application is supported by AppPresser a WordPress application development platform
with limited features. If this mobile application would be taken for campus enlargement, it would
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have to be supported by coding which is one of the features that AppPresser does not require
users to apply.
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APPENDIX
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APPENDIX 1
INTERVIEW GUIDE
Graduate Assistants Focus Group Questions
1. What kind of apps or websites do you use?
2. What app is your favorite other than social media?
3. What time of day do you check your apps?
4. Other than for homework what other times are you on your phone?
5. Do you use your phone when you aren’t in school?
6. What features do you like about your favorite apps?
7. Is there a design scheme that you prefer over others? (colors, layouts)
8. Which news apps do you use?
9. Do you follow anyone specific (business leaders, celebrities) on social media?
10. Do you follow school news? Reason why or why not?
11. What features do you want to see for a school of business app?
12. What content would you like to see in the school of business app?
13. What would it take to draw you to using an app everyday?
14. What are your thoughts on apps linking to other apps?
15. Thoughts on communication with faculty? How is that relationship?
16. What do you think about using camera features in apps?
17. What do you think of location features of apps?
18. What features would MBA students like to see in a business app?
19. How is alumni communication? (student to alumni communication)
Business Ambassadors FG Questions:
1. Do you have a smartphone?
2.Tell me about your average day?
3.How do you use your smartphone every day?
4. When do you use your smartphone in general?
5.Why you use your smart phone?
6. What you like to do on websites?
7. What is your favorite app?
8. Why are you constantly using the apps that you use?
9. What attracts you to the apps you use?
10. What kind of apps you use on a daily basis?
11. What about none social media apps?
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12. What kind of features you would like to see in the app
13. What would drive you to use/open the app?
14. What kind of layout you prefer? Visuals
15. Are you interested in community information? What would you like to hear?
16. What kind of educational websites you use?
17. Where you get your campus news
18. Where you get your general “news”?
19. How do you feel about interacting with students with the app
20. Name? - #BusinessHSU
Alumni Questionnaire – Secondary Audience
1. How do you stay connected with the school of business?
2. Do you think there’s a problem with communication with alumni?
3. What you think is the problem with alumni communication?-
4. How do you stay connected with more alumni?
5. What do you think more alumni would want?
6. What need would you have to actually download the HSU School of Business App?
7. How would you use it to stay connected? With who? Students, faculty, school of business
8. What kind of features you would like to see in this app for students?
9. What do you expect to see in the school of business app? (Email)
10. What kind of features you would like to see in this app for alumni?
11. Will you be interested in letting students contact you through the app?
12. From the apps that you use, what kind of apps you use that you think have a cool feature that can be
beneficial to students?
13. Do you see the app be beneficial for students to connect with alumni?
14. What you think young alumni are looking for?
15. Do you think that an old alumni that graduated long time ago has any need to open a SoB app?
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APPENDIX 2
QUESTIONNAIRE
Q1 Are you currently a student at Henderson State University?
Yes (1)
No (2)
If No Is Selected, Then Skip To Are you currently a faculty member of...
Q2 Do you have a smartphone?
Yes (1)
No (2)
If No Is Selected, Then Skip To The following section will contain qu...
Q3 What time of day do you use your phone the most?
Morning (5am-11:59am) (1)
Afternoon (12:00pm-5pm) (2)
Night (5:01pm-4:59am) (3)
Q4 How much time would you say you use your smartphone in a day?
less than 10 minutes (1)
11 to 30 minutes (2)
31 minutes to 1 hour (3)
2 to 3 hours (4)
more than 3 hours (5)
Q5 Do you use apps?
Yes (1)
No (2)
If No Is Selected, Then Skip To Do you use the Henderson State Univer...
Q6 What types of apps do you use? (Please select all that apply)
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Social Media (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter) (1)
Education (MyHenderson, Angel, Blackboard) (2)
Entertainment (Games, Netflix, Hulu, Music,) (3)
Resource (News, Job Search) (4)
Business (Banking, Stocks) (6)
Shopping (Amazon, eBay) (7)
Other (5) ____________________
Q7 Please enter your favorite app?
Q8 Do you use the Henderson State University Website? (www.hsu.edu)
Yes (23)
No (24)
Q9 How you get your Henderson State University news?
Email (1)
HSU Website (2)
Social Media (3)
Word of Mouth (4)
Print (Flyers, Posters, Banners) (5)
Other (6) ____________________
Q10 What features would you like to see in the HSU School of Business App? (Please select all
that apply)
Event Calendar (1)
Directory (2)
Teacher Biographies (3)
Degree Information (Accounting, Fiance, Management, Marketing, etc) (4)
Graduate Program Information (5)
Graduate Assistant Information (6)
Student Organization Information (Alpha Kappa Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma) (7)
Student Programs (Business Ambassadors, Center of Student Excellence, Business Beyond the
Classroom) (8)
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Job and Internship Opportunities (9)
Alumni Information (10)
Chat Function (Students and Teachers) (11)
Virtual Tour of School of Business (12)
Class Grades (14)
Student Achievements (15)
Arkadelphia Event Information (16)
Other (13) ____________________
Q11 What would drive you to open the School of Business App daily? (Please select all that
apply)
Push Notifications (1)
Articles Related to Course Work (2)
Trivia Game (3)
Class Information (5)
Other (4) ____________________
Q12 Which of these names do you like for the School of Business App the most?
ReddieBiz (1)
HSUBusiness (2)
BusinessHSU (3)
HSUBUS (4)
Other (5) ____________________
Q13 Would you use the app to communicate with professors?
Yes (23)
No (24)
Maybe (25)
Q14 Would you use the app to communicate with Alumni?
Yes (62)
No (65)
Maybe (67)
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Q15 Are you currently a faculty member of Henderson State University School of Business?
Yes (1)
No (2)
If No Is Selected, Then Skip To The following section will contain qu...
Q16 Do you have a smartphone?
Yes (1)
No (2)
If No Is Selected, Then Skip To The following section will contain qu...
Q17 What time of day do you use your phone the most?
Morning (5am-11:59am) (1)
Afternoon (12:00pm-5pm) (2)
Night (5:01pm-4:59am) (3)
Q18 How much time would you say you use your smartphone in a day?
less than 10 minutes (1)
11 to 30 minutes (2)
31 minutes to 1 hour (3)
2 to 3 hours (4)
more than 3 hours (5)
Q19 Do you use apps?
Yes (1)
No (2)
If No Is Selected, Then Skip To Do you use the Henderson State Univer...
Q20 What types of apps do you use? (Please select all that apply)
Social Media (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter) (1)
Education (MyHenderson, Angel, Blackboard) (2)
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Entertainment (Games, Netflix, Hulu, Music,) (3)
Resource (News, Job Search) (4)
Business (Banking, Stocks) (6)
Shopping (Amazon, eBay) (7)
Other (5) ____________________
Q21 Please enter your favorite app?
Q22 Do you use the Henderson State University Website? (www.hsu.edu)
Yes (23)
No (24)
Q23 How you get your Henderson State University news?
Email (1)
HSU Website (2)
Social Media (3)
Word of Mouth (4)
Print (Flyers, Posters, Banners) (5)
Other (6) ____________________
Q24 What features would you like to see in the HSU School of Business App? (Please select all
that apply)
Event Calendar (1)
Directory (2)
Teacher Biographies (3)
Degree Information (Accounting, Fiance, Management, Marketing, etc) (4)
Graduate Program Information (5)
Graduate Assistant Information (6)
Student Organization Information (Alpha Kappa Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma) (7)
Student Programs (Business Ambassadors, Center of Student Excellence, Business Beyond the
Classroom) (8)
Job and Internship Opportunities (9)
Alumni Information (10)
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Chat Function (Students and Teachers) (11)
Virtual Tour of School of Business (12)
Class Grades (14)
Student Achievements (15)
Arkadelphia Event Information (16)
Other (13) ____________________
Q25 What would drive you to open the School of Business App daily? (Please select all that
apply)
Push Notifications (1)
Articles Related to Course Work (2)
Trivia Game (3)
Class Information (5)
Other (4) ____________________
Q26 Which of these names do you like for the School of Business App the most?
ReddieBiz (1)
HSUBusiness (2)
BusinessHSU (3)
HSUBUS (4)
Other (5) ____________________
Q27 Would you use the app to communicate with students?
Yes (23)
No (24)
Maybe (25)
Q28 Would you use the app to communicate with Alumni?
Yes (62)
No (65)
Maybe (67)
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Q29 The following section will contain questions describing yourself. Remember your answers
will be anonymous.
Q30 Please select your sex.
Male (1)
Female (2)
Prefer not to answer (3)
Q31 How old are you?
16-20 (1)
21-25 (2)
26-30 (3)
31-35 (4)
36-40 (5)
41-45 (6)
46-50 (7)
51-55 (8)
56-60 (9)
61-65 (10)
66-70 (11)
71-75 (12)
76-80 (13)
81-85 (14)
86-90 (15)
Prefer not to anwer (16)
Q32 What year are you?
Freshman (1)
Sophomore (2)
Junior (3)
Senior (4)
I am a faculty member (5)
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Q33 What is your major?
Accounting (1)
Business Information Systems (2)
Entrepreneurship (3)
Finance (4)
Management (5)
Marketing (6)
Aviation (9)
Other (7) ____________________
I am a faculty member (11)
Q34 Please select your ethnic background.
Caucasian (1)
African American (2)
Hispanic/Latino (3)
Asian (4)
Other (5) ____________________
Prefer not to answer (6)
Q35 Do you live on campus?
Yes (1)
No (2)
Prefer not to answer (3)
I am a faculty member (4)
A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 25
APPENDIX 3
BACK-UP DATA TABLES
FIGURE 1
FIGURE 2
A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 26
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 4

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FINAL APP DEVELOPMENT REPORT -DONE

  • 1. Mobile Application Development Report 2016 App Development Marketing Research Dr. Jennifer Zarzosa May 4th, 2016 Prepared for: Henderson State University School of Business President and Provost By: John Kennedy Katie Miley Sasha Zavala
  • 2. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 1 Table of Contents Executive Summary …………………………………………………………………………………...2 Problem & Approach Research Design Major Results……………………………………………………………………………………...3 Recommendations ……………………………………………………………………………..….3 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………...5 Major Secondary Research Management Problem 6 Research Questions Method……………………………………………………………………………………………….....6 Overall Research Design 6 Qualitative Research Design Qualitative Data Analysis/Results………………………………………………………………...7 In-depth Faculty Interviews 7 In-depth Alumni Interviews …..………………………………………………………...8 Student Focus Groups Quantitative Research Design ……..………………………………………………………….…9 Sampling Techniques & Sample Size Scaling Techniques ……………………………………………………………………10 Questionnaire Development Data Collection Results ……………………………………………………………………………………………..…11 Research Question 1 Research Question 2 Research Question 3 Major Findings Limitations Conclusions and Recommendations ……………………………………………………………….11 Recommendation 1 Recommendation 2 ……………………………………………………………………………..12 Recommendation 3 Appendix …………………………………………………………………………………………..…14 1. Interview Guides 2. Questionnaire 4. Back-Up Data Tables 5. Data File
  • 3. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 2 Executive Summary Problem & Approach The Marketing App Development Interns at Henderson State University started a marketing research project to assist Henderson State University School of Business in Arkadelphia, AR. This project has been created with the purpose of determining the overall engagement and usability of mobile applications from different stakeholders at the university's school of business. The overall goal of this project is to integrate new tools to ease the communication between stakeholders. We have conducted qualitative and quantitative research while working in a cross-disciplinary team, along with school’s innovative media and communication departments to create a mobile application prototype. This is to be presented as part of the new strategic plan for the School of Business that will hopefully bring current and future Reddies together in an engaging and innovative way. In this report, we will be analyzing the qualitative and quantitative research findings from our stakeholders at Henderson State University, School of Business, Faculty, Students, and Alumni. ResearchDesign: The app development interns began by speaking with Dr. Louis Dawkins Dean of the School of Business along with Associate Dean Dr. Nathaniel Campbell to get an insight to find our research problem and questions. The interns then searched and interviewed stakeholders in the target market. Using our secondary research (benchmarking) and our interviews data we were able to create a survey via Qualtrics Premium Survey builder. After the survey had been created, the survey was tested by the interns to fix problems before being sent out to our mailing list. A total of 391 emails were sent via Qualtrics, containing emails from our stakeholders. From those emails 376 were students, and 15 were faculty. 121 surveys had been created, and 114 were completed with a response rate of 33%.
  • 4. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 3 Major Results: After looking at the results from both Qualitative and Quantitative research, we determined that students were interested in having an event calendar, a feature that had information about job/internship opportunities, degree information/plans, and a feature that would allow them to check their grades. Faculty were interested in an event calendar feature, student degree information, a directory, and job/internship opportunities for the students. Faculty were also interested in the GA and MBA program information being added to the app. Alumni wanted an event calendar and to see program information the School of Business is currently doing. Recommendations Recommendation 1: Student A/B Testing ● As part of our ambitious plan we were hoping to have two or more prototypes at the end of the semester to be able to do A/B testing of layouts, design, features, etc. Due to lack of time we recommend for future marketing research students at the School of Business to take on this project in the upcoming fall semester to conduct a more thorough and complex A/B testing phase that will guide and help with future development and promotion of the mobile application for the school. Recommendation 2: Promotion ● Once the mobile application has been approved through iOS and Android stores, we recommend the School of Business promote the mobile application through different IMC (Integrated Marketing Communications) channels such as social media, social share (word of mouth), public relations, videos, websites, and events. ● The School of Business can create social media content to be shared through their Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. This content can be infographics or tutorial videos on how to download and use the new mobile application. ● The School of Business can also create events through school organizations and programs such as the “Business Beyond the Classroom” and “Center of Student Excellence” to promote the app within the school, as well as having the Business Ambassadors promote the app through word of mouth.
  • 5. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 4 ● The School of Business along with Henderson State University’s Public Relations can collaborate to create press releases concerning the new mobile application. These press releases can contain personal interviews with new users explaining their experiences while working/using the application. These press releases can also be shared through the school’s website (www.hsu.edu) and social media accounts. Recommendation 3: Campus Enlargement If the mobile application were to be successful at the School of Business and were to be taken into consideration to be a whole campus mobile application for Henderson State University, we recommend to the school to hire a Mobile Application Developer with experience in marketing and computer science to take over the project. Due to budget and resources, the prototype application is supported by AppPresser, a WordPress application development platform with limited features. If this mobile application would be taken for campus enlargement, it would have to be supported by coding which is one of the features that AppPresser does not require users to apply.
  • 6. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 5 INTRODUCTION Henderson State University School of Business, is a higher education facility with 16% of the university’s overall enrollment as business students in the different areas of Accounting, Business Information Systems, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Management, Marketing, and MBA. Since its establishment in 1933 Henderson State University School of Business has focused on the individual welfare of its students by providing excellent faculty, enthusiastic students and engaged partners to collaborate in experiential learning activities. Dr. Louis Dawkins Dean of School of Business along with Dr. Nathan Campbell Assistant Dean worked on an idea to bring the School of Business closer in communication via an innovative technology concept financed by beauty expert and Henderson alumni Mrs. Shannon Curtin. As part of their new implemented Strategic Plan, Henderson’s School of Business plans on integrating new tools to improve the communication with different stakeholders such as Students, Alumni, and Faculty. Our goal is to determine the needs and wants of these stakeholders to create a mobile application that will be engaging and innovative to its users so it can improve the educational experience of current and future Reddies at Henderson State University, School of Business. Major Secondary ResearchFindings: To begin our research, we started by benchmarking against mobile applications from different Schools of Business on the iOS and Android platforms. This helped us gain a better understanding of what features schools consider important on their mobile applications. Aside from benchmarking against schools, we also researched popular mobile applications on both the iOS and Android stores. By doing this, we discovered features that are common amongst all mobile applications. All of the features that were discovered during our benchmarking phase encompass the following: ● Event Calendar ● Directory ● Building Tours ● Grades ● Images ● Campus Maps ● Scrolling ● News Feed ● Side Swipe Layout ● Menus ● Course Information/Schedules ● Social Media
  • 7. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 6 Management Problem: To determine how Henderson State University School of Business can better communicate with their stakeholders. In answering this question, we conducted research to conclude that the School of Business will have better communication with its stakeholders by implementing a mobile application. Researchquestions What features do the students want in the School of Business mobile application? What features do the faculty want in the School of Business mobile application? What features do the alumni want in the School of Business mobile application? Method Overall ResearchDesign: For the overall research design, we used both exploratory research and descriptive research. Exploratory research was done by doing in-depth interviews with stakeholders and studying secondary data (benchmarking). We then proceeded to descriptive research by analyzing a survey that we created to collect primary data. We developed the survey after gaining insight about stakeholders’ needs. Qualitative Research Design: For the qualitative design, the app development interns divided the stakeholders into separate groups so that each intern could have a section of stakeholders they could interview. These sections consisted of stakeholders that included students, alumni, and faculty. To select our stakeholders for each focus group we created a screening questionnaire that let us separate the focus group participants by phone usage and gender.
  • 8. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 7 Qualitative Data Analysis/ Results In-depth Faculty Interviews Different types of topics were asked during the interview with Faculty. Questions concerning communication with students, information about a directory, school programs, and calendars were some of the themes asked. Trend 1: Internship “It would be very beneficial to have potential employment information for students. Sometimes people ask for part-time and full-time positions not only internships.” Trend 2: Directory “A directory would provide students with easy access to office hours, faculty emails, and telephone numbers. I believe that all of us would like that to be in one place.” Trend 3: Information about School of Business Programs “We can put information about the different school programs like Beta Gamma Sigma, which is the higher business honors in college that you can get, only top 7% of juniors and top 10% of seniors get invited to be part of it. Sometimes people don't know how to be part of the organization; you have to earn it with good grades.” Trend 4: Event Calendar “We do so many events that I think students may not be aware of. I think it would be wonderful to have a better way to communicate events.” Conclusion After doing the in-depth interviews with the faculty, we noticed a recurring theme; they wanted to open up more communication with students. Every feature that the faculty members wanted to see (event calendar, program information, a directory, and internship information) was related to sending out information to the user. We used these findings to inform our questions on the survey. We specifically asked faculty members if they would like to see a social media feature on the mobile application. A social media feature could be used to open up communication between the students and the School of Business.
  • 9. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 8 In-depth Alumni Interviews The themes that emerged were: Event Calendar, School Programs Information, Push Notifications, and Social Media. Trend 1: Event Calendar “Communication within the fraternity was kind of a challenge. As a student involved, maybe there’s some kind of events page for students…not just within Mooney, within the whole university. A calendar of events of something like that would be cool.” Trend 2: Program Information “I want to see what new programs the business school is putting together. Where are we going 5 to 10 years and what should we be teaching? If we are not putting new programs into Henderson to attract quality students for these different curriculums, then we’re making a bad mistake.” Trend 3: Push Notifications “I think that an app would go a long way if you could encourage alumni to download that app and maybe even receive notifications, push notifications…everybody is connected with their phone.” Trend 4: Social Media “If you want to connect alums, I think it would be really cool to have an alumni section to where I could go in and see other alums and maybe connect with them in a way they wanna be.” Conclusion Based on the information we collected from the in-depth alumni interviews, we decided we didn’t need to collect any information from alums on the survey. We learned that this stakeholder wanted an event calendar to stay current with program activities on campus. One of the most important trends was that every alumni mentioned was they would prefer push notifications when new announcements were added to the mobile app. A social media aspect would allow alums to stay in contact with both faculty and students.
  • 10. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 9 Student Focus Groups Trend 1: Event Calendar “I would like to see a calendar of events and have it send reminders of what’s happening.” Trend 2: Push Notifications “I would like to get notifications!That is what draws me to open my apps most of the time. If I were to get notifications about class assignments, that would make my life so much easier.” Trend 3: Directory “Yeah, with easy access to all of the business faculty phone numbers and emails. They can have their own profile; you can go to their profile and set up meeting times, check class information such as due dates for assignments or when they will cancel classes that day.” Trend 4: Internship Information “Having a place where we can go look for internships would be cool to have, we don't hear much about opportunities other than by word of mouth of professors, but I think having a place where we can go to see the latest internships or job opportunities could be very beneficial to us.” Conclusion Our findings show that students are interested in an event calendar, push notifications, a directory, and internship information from both alumni and other business owners. With this information, we made sure to include questions asking about possible feature options on the survey. We also wanted to ask questions about student/teacher communication to measure if social media aspects would add value to the mobile application. Quantitative ResearchDesign: For our Quantitative research design, we used Qualtrics, a premium survey platform. Out of the 391 possible respondents, 140 started the survey, and 129 completed the survey. · Sampling Techniques & Sample Size (for quantitative design): We used a census sampling technique. The respondents were obtained through an email list from the School of Business. The sample size was 391. Of the 391 people emailed, 140 started the survey, but only 129 completed it. There was a 33% response rate.
  • 11. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 10 · Scaling Techniques (for quantitative design): Overall for the survey, we used multiple scales to include nominal and interval. The nominal scale was used for demographic questions (gender). Interval scales were used mainly for the opened ended questions (stakeholder opinions). · Questionnaire Development (for quantitative design): The questionnaire was developed in two steps. The first step was interviewing the stakeholders to see what trends emerged and if there should be questions about those trends. We decided that the questionnaire should include questions on the amount of phone usage, types of apps the respondents use, features respondents want to see in a school of business app, how respondents get school news, and demographic questions. The final step was sending out the actual survey. · Data Collection (for quantitative design): For data collection we used the list of emails provided by the School of Business. We sent the survey that we created in Qualtrics to 391 possible respondents. After a short period of waiting for respondents to complete the survey, we ended up collecting data from 140 people who attempted the survey, 129 of which completed it. The information was sent to Qualtrics where the data was collected to be analyzed.
  • 12. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 11 RESULTS ResearchQuestion 1: What features do the students want in the School of Business mobile application? ResearchQuestion 2: What features do the faculty want in the School Business mobile application? ResearchQuestion 3: What features do the alumni want in the School mobile application? Major Findings: The results of the both the qualitative and quantitative research show us the major overall findings and can be broken down by stakeholder. Students were interested having an event calendar, a feature that had information about job/internship opportunities, degree information/plans, and a feature that would allow them to check their grades. Faculty were interested in an event calendar feature, student degree information, a directory, and job/internship opportunities for the students. Faculty were also interested in the GA and MBA program information being added to the app. Alumni wanted an event calendar and to see program information the School of Business is currently doing. All three stakeholder groups wanted push notifications and to be able to communicate with each other through a social media feature. Limitations: The overall project was limited in one major way: time. Another two months of data collection would have helped us tremendously. We could have done in-depth interviews with students and conducted A/B testing on the prototype of the app. With any research, the more time the research is conducted, the more conclusive the data. Conclusions and Recommendations Recommendation 1: Student A/B Testing As part of our ambitious plan, we were hoping to have two or more prototypes at the end of the semester to be able to do A/B testing of layouts, design, features, etc. Due to lack of time
  • 13. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 12 we recommend for future marketing research students at the School of Business to take on this project in the upcoming fall semester to conduct a more throughout and complex A/B testing phase that will guide and help with future development and promotion of the mobile application for the school. Recommendation 2: Promotion Once the mobile application has been approved through iOS and Android stores, and it's ready for download, we recommend the School of Business to promote the mobile application through different IMC (Integrated Marketing Communications) channels such as social media, social share (word of mouth), public relations, videos, websites and events. ● The School of Business can create social media content to be shared through their Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. This content can be infographics or tutorial videos on how to download and use the new mobile application. ● The School of Business can also create events through school organizations and programs such as the “Business Beyond the Classroom” and “Center of Student Excellence” to promote the app within the school as well as having the Business Ambassadors promote the app through word of mouth. ● The School of Business along with Henderson State University’s Public Relations can collaborate to create press releases concerning the new mobile application. These press releases can contain personal interviews with new users explaining their experiences while working/using the application. These press releases can also be shared through the school’s website (www.hsu.edu) and social media accounts. Recommendation 3: Campus Enlargement If the mobile application were to be successful at the School of Business and were to be taken into consideration to be a whole campus mobile application for Henderson State University, we recommend to the school to hire a Mobile Application Developer with experience in marketing and computer science to take over the project. Due to budget and resources, the prototype application is supported by AppPresser a WordPress application development platform with limited features. If this mobile application would be taken for campus enlargement, it would
  • 14. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 13 have to be supported by coding which is one of the features that AppPresser does not require users to apply.
  • 15. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 14 APPENDIX
  • 16. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 15 APPENDIX 1 INTERVIEW GUIDE Graduate Assistants Focus Group Questions 1. What kind of apps or websites do you use? 2. What app is your favorite other than social media? 3. What time of day do you check your apps? 4. Other than for homework what other times are you on your phone? 5. Do you use your phone when you aren’t in school? 6. What features do you like about your favorite apps? 7. Is there a design scheme that you prefer over others? (colors, layouts) 8. Which news apps do you use? 9. Do you follow anyone specific (business leaders, celebrities) on social media? 10. Do you follow school news? Reason why or why not? 11. What features do you want to see for a school of business app? 12. What content would you like to see in the school of business app? 13. What would it take to draw you to using an app everyday? 14. What are your thoughts on apps linking to other apps? 15. Thoughts on communication with faculty? How is that relationship? 16. What do you think about using camera features in apps? 17. What do you think of location features of apps? 18. What features would MBA students like to see in a business app? 19. How is alumni communication? (student to alumni communication) Business Ambassadors FG Questions: 1. Do you have a smartphone? 2.Tell me about your average day? 3.How do you use your smartphone every day? 4. When do you use your smartphone in general? 5.Why you use your smart phone? 6. What you like to do on websites? 7. What is your favorite app? 8. Why are you constantly using the apps that you use? 9. What attracts you to the apps you use? 10. What kind of apps you use on a daily basis? 11. What about none social media apps?
  • 17. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 16 12. What kind of features you would like to see in the app 13. What would drive you to use/open the app? 14. What kind of layout you prefer? Visuals 15. Are you interested in community information? What would you like to hear? 16. What kind of educational websites you use? 17. Where you get your campus news 18. Where you get your general “news”? 19. How do you feel about interacting with students with the app 20. Name? - #BusinessHSU Alumni Questionnaire – Secondary Audience 1. How do you stay connected with the school of business? 2. Do you think there’s a problem with communication with alumni? 3. What you think is the problem with alumni communication?- 4. How do you stay connected with more alumni? 5. What do you think more alumni would want? 6. What need would you have to actually download the HSU School of Business App? 7. How would you use it to stay connected? With who? Students, faculty, school of business 8. What kind of features you would like to see in this app for students? 9. What do you expect to see in the school of business app? (Email) 10. What kind of features you would like to see in this app for alumni? 11. Will you be interested in letting students contact you through the app? 12. From the apps that you use, what kind of apps you use that you think have a cool feature that can be beneficial to students? 13. Do you see the app be beneficial for students to connect with alumni? 14. What you think young alumni are looking for? 15. Do you think that an old alumni that graduated long time ago has any need to open a SoB app?
  • 18. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 17 APPENDIX 2 QUESTIONNAIRE Q1 Are you currently a student at Henderson State University? Yes (1) No (2) If No Is Selected, Then Skip To Are you currently a faculty member of... Q2 Do you have a smartphone? Yes (1) No (2) If No Is Selected, Then Skip To The following section will contain qu... Q3 What time of day do you use your phone the most? Morning (5am-11:59am) (1) Afternoon (12:00pm-5pm) (2) Night (5:01pm-4:59am) (3) Q4 How much time would you say you use your smartphone in a day? less than 10 minutes (1) 11 to 30 minutes (2) 31 minutes to 1 hour (3) 2 to 3 hours (4) more than 3 hours (5) Q5 Do you use apps? Yes (1) No (2) If No Is Selected, Then Skip To Do you use the Henderson State Univer... Q6 What types of apps do you use? (Please select all that apply)
  • 19. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 18 Social Media (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter) (1) Education (MyHenderson, Angel, Blackboard) (2) Entertainment (Games, Netflix, Hulu, Music,) (3) Resource (News, Job Search) (4) Business (Banking, Stocks) (6) Shopping (Amazon, eBay) (7) Other (5) ____________________ Q7 Please enter your favorite app? Q8 Do you use the Henderson State University Website? (www.hsu.edu) Yes (23) No (24) Q9 How you get your Henderson State University news? Email (1) HSU Website (2) Social Media (3) Word of Mouth (4) Print (Flyers, Posters, Banners) (5) Other (6) ____________________ Q10 What features would you like to see in the HSU School of Business App? (Please select all that apply) Event Calendar (1) Directory (2) Teacher Biographies (3) Degree Information (Accounting, Fiance, Management, Marketing, etc) (4) Graduate Program Information (5) Graduate Assistant Information (6) Student Organization Information (Alpha Kappa Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma) (7) Student Programs (Business Ambassadors, Center of Student Excellence, Business Beyond the Classroom) (8)
  • 20. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 19 Job and Internship Opportunities (9) Alumni Information (10) Chat Function (Students and Teachers) (11) Virtual Tour of School of Business (12) Class Grades (14) Student Achievements (15) Arkadelphia Event Information (16) Other (13) ____________________ Q11 What would drive you to open the School of Business App daily? (Please select all that apply) Push Notifications (1) Articles Related to Course Work (2) Trivia Game (3) Class Information (5) Other (4) ____________________ Q12 Which of these names do you like for the School of Business App the most? ReddieBiz (1) HSUBusiness (2) BusinessHSU (3) HSUBUS (4) Other (5) ____________________ Q13 Would you use the app to communicate with professors? Yes (23) No (24) Maybe (25) Q14 Would you use the app to communicate with Alumni? Yes (62) No (65) Maybe (67)
  • 21. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 20 Q15 Are you currently a faculty member of Henderson State University School of Business? Yes (1) No (2) If No Is Selected, Then Skip To The following section will contain qu... Q16 Do you have a smartphone? Yes (1) No (2) If No Is Selected, Then Skip To The following section will contain qu... Q17 What time of day do you use your phone the most? Morning (5am-11:59am) (1) Afternoon (12:00pm-5pm) (2) Night (5:01pm-4:59am) (3) Q18 How much time would you say you use your smartphone in a day? less than 10 minutes (1) 11 to 30 minutes (2) 31 minutes to 1 hour (3) 2 to 3 hours (4) more than 3 hours (5) Q19 Do you use apps? Yes (1) No (2) If No Is Selected, Then Skip To Do you use the Henderson State Univer... Q20 What types of apps do you use? (Please select all that apply) Social Media (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter) (1) Education (MyHenderson, Angel, Blackboard) (2)
  • 22. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 21 Entertainment (Games, Netflix, Hulu, Music,) (3) Resource (News, Job Search) (4) Business (Banking, Stocks) (6) Shopping (Amazon, eBay) (7) Other (5) ____________________ Q21 Please enter your favorite app? Q22 Do you use the Henderson State University Website? (www.hsu.edu) Yes (23) No (24) Q23 How you get your Henderson State University news? Email (1) HSU Website (2) Social Media (3) Word of Mouth (4) Print (Flyers, Posters, Banners) (5) Other (6) ____________________ Q24 What features would you like to see in the HSU School of Business App? (Please select all that apply) Event Calendar (1) Directory (2) Teacher Biographies (3) Degree Information (Accounting, Fiance, Management, Marketing, etc) (4) Graduate Program Information (5) Graduate Assistant Information (6) Student Organization Information (Alpha Kappa Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma) (7) Student Programs (Business Ambassadors, Center of Student Excellence, Business Beyond the Classroom) (8) Job and Internship Opportunities (9) Alumni Information (10)
  • 23. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 22 Chat Function (Students and Teachers) (11) Virtual Tour of School of Business (12) Class Grades (14) Student Achievements (15) Arkadelphia Event Information (16) Other (13) ____________________ Q25 What would drive you to open the School of Business App daily? (Please select all that apply) Push Notifications (1) Articles Related to Course Work (2) Trivia Game (3) Class Information (5) Other (4) ____________________ Q26 Which of these names do you like for the School of Business App the most? ReddieBiz (1) HSUBusiness (2) BusinessHSU (3) HSUBUS (4) Other (5) ____________________ Q27 Would you use the app to communicate with students? Yes (23) No (24) Maybe (25) Q28 Would you use the app to communicate with Alumni? Yes (62) No (65) Maybe (67)
  • 24. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 23 Q29 The following section will contain questions describing yourself. Remember your answers will be anonymous. Q30 Please select your sex. Male (1) Female (2) Prefer not to answer (3) Q31 How old are you? 16-20 (1) 21-25 (2) 26-30 (3) 31-35 (4) 36-40 (5) 41-45 (6) 46-50 (7) 51-55 (8) 56-60 (9) 61-65 (10) 66-70 (11) 71-75 (12) 76-80 (13) 81-85 (14) 86-90 (15) Prefer not to anwer (16) Q32 What year are you? Freshman (1) Sophomore (2) Junior (3) Senior (4) I am a faculty member (5)
  • 25. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 24 Q33 What is your major? Accounting (1) Business Information Systems (2) Entrepreneurship (3) Finance (4) Management (5) Marketing (6) Aviation (9) Other (7) ____________________ I am a faculty member (11) Q34 Please select your ethnic background. Caucasian (1) African American (2) Hispanic/Latino (3) Asian (4) Other (5) ____________________ Prefer not to answer (6) Q35 Do you live on campus? Yes (1) No (2) Prefer not to answer (3) I am a faculty member (4)
  • 26. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 25 APPENDIX 3 BACK-UP DATA TABLES FIGURE 1 FIGURE 2
  • 27. A p p D e v e l o p m e n t R e p o r t | 26 FIGURE 3 FIGURE 4