Reynaldo Marasigan                                                      IT-ETHICS                                             April 8, 2008

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1. The innovation of Jaipur Foot is to selling prosthetic foot for the poor

2. The business of Jaipur Foot is to create hand maid artificial foot and lower limb prosthesis 

3. The main beneficiaries of Jaipur Foot's products are poor countries and those who have land mines in their countries.

4. Afghanistan is one of the markets of Jaipur Foot because there are many landmines there

5. Jaipur Foot's product pricing compare with the West has a big difference. From $30 to thousands of dollars

6. Gait cycle is the ability of person to walk

7. The first Jaipur Foot artificial limb was developed by Pare in 1561.

8. The design considerations in the Jaipur Foot Design Process are: being able to squat, to sit cross-legged, to walk on uneven ground, and to walk barefooted.

9. The constraints in the development for Jaipur Foot are poverty, closed economy, working lifestyle, and limited trained man power.

10. The raw materials for Jaipur Foot can be purchased locally while other products was imported in other countries

11. A typical fitting day for a Jaipur Foot is fast and hospitable

12. “BMVSS was established on March 1975 by Mr. Mehra. If not for the value system and patient-centric management practices followed by BMVSS, Jaipur foot might have remained on the shelf and in limbo.”

13. Both are competitive. There are more customers in Jaipur foot but the strategy of ossur is better.

14. Jaipur Foot model is scalable they can expand their target market through placing their branches on different places.

15.  The significance of Jaipur Foot's cooperation with ISRO is that it will reduce the manufacturing cost of Jaipur foot.