EGO Creative Innovations

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a CEO of the consulting company in Tokyo, Japan. Our company worked on a mobile application development for consumer service here in Japan but eventually global service.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire EGO Creative Innovations, and what were your goals?

We wanted to develop a pilot model of the application as teaser for the investors to raise the foundation to start the actual development. The challenge for our team and EGO was that both teams were not familiar about developing such application system before. Also, not only the language barrier, but also we needed to learn some technical impressions of the features for the applications.

So we had discuss about the details numbers of times through video calls or emails to clarify the issues.

SOLUTION

How did you select EGO Creative Innovations and what were the deciding factors?

We found EGO through a friend of mine, who works with them in Japan market before. The reference from the friend is one of the best ways and trust worth it based on my experience.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

As we started to build the application, EGO shared us the list of queries that require for developing the test model. We answered the queries and start to hold the video calls to discuss about what kind of application that we want. Gradually our team and EGO team to develop the basic form of the application. EGO team shared with us the numbers of applications images and we gave feedbacks after the review.

EGO team and our team basically went through these sessions for several months, then EGO team successfully finalized the pilot type as we requested.

How many resources from the EGO Creative Innovations team worked with you, and what were their positions?

A project manager worked on the project with us and another marketing manager helped sometimes to follow up if they would like to clarify the queries.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Our project is still test model and before showing off at the cloud funding system. On the other hand, our team is very satisfied with the test model that EGO team developed for us so far and we would like to brush it up with EGO team from now on.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We communicated through Emails and Zoom. Also EGO team provided us the application images in PDF files so we can easily make comments on it if need. Development phase took about three to four months. Meanwhile, we exchanged the numbers of communications through emails and zoom calls to follow up pending items for the test model.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Even we are not mature about the technical language of application development, EGO team developed the test model from the early stage of the development. Their knowledge and development skills were beyond our expectation level.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

In terms of sample pictures of products or shops that we set on the test model, perhaps EGO can add more variety of it so we can see how it looks different. At the same time, this is something our team can work on it with EGO team for the future project.