MSc Management Consultancy Project 23-24

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University of Sussex
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Mirela Barbu
Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management
(12)
3
Timeline
  • June 9, 2024
    Experience start
  • June 21, 2024
    Kick-off meeting
  • August 30, 2024
    Presentation of reccomendaitons to the clients
  • September 16, 2024
    Delivery of the Consultancy Report
  • September 16, 2024
    Experience end
Experience
4/4 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
United Kingdom
Startup, Social enterprise, Small to medium enterprise, Incubator
Hospitality, Apparel & fashion, Education, Environment, Consumer goods & services
Categories
Operations Project management Competitive analysis Market expansion
Skills
project planning business consulting business strategy data analysis
Learner goals and capabilities

Looking to elevate your organization and bring it to the next level? Bring on students from MSc Management at the University of Sussex Business School to be your student consultants, using project-based experience. The Consultancy Project is an optional module offered only in the course MSc Management. It aims to provide students who are interested in undertaking a different type of dissertation with the opportunity to be involved in addressing a request raised by a real business/ organisation. From this perspective, the Consultancy Project is similar to a project prepared by consultants when addressing a client request. Students will work on one main project over three months, connecting with you with virtual communication tools as needed. Students will work in teams under close supervision.

Learners
Post-graduate
Any level
12 learners
Project
300 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Individual projects
Expected outcomes and deliverables

At the end of August students produce recommendations to the company in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. The Consultancy Report is submitted to the University of Sussex Business School by mid-September and made available to the company soon afterwards.

Project timeline
  • June 9, 2024
    Experience start
  • June 21, 2024
    Kick-off meeting
  • August 30, 2024
    Presentation of reccomendaitons to the clients
  • September 16, 2024
    Delivery of the Consultancy Report
  • September 16, 2024
    Experience end
Project Examples

Students in groups of 3-4 will work with your company to identify your needs and provide actionable recommendations based on their in-depth research and analysis.

Project activities that students completed in previous years:

  • Develop digital marketing strategies for a sustainable online fashion start-up.
  • Identify ways to support the acceleration of SDGs in certain countries, focusing on actions targeting environmental sustainability and biodiversity conservation (SDGs 13, 14, 15, 16, 17).
  • Prepare a plan for expanding and growing product sales overseas for a well-established pet food supplier.
  • Design expansion strategies for a B2B company that targets Chinese publicly traded tech companies. 
  • Develop a new service for the contaminated land remediation sector based on multi-source environmental datasets. Identify means of improving and accelerating the assessment of brownfield sites so that practitioners, site owners, and public bodies can robustly and rapidly complete site appraisals.
  • Use a pilot project to test a new technology that takes a deep green approach to enable communities, companies, and cities to collaborate to create a sustainable future.
  • Develop an action plan to target and influence businesses to use value-based segmentation models alongside video-based research to gain strategic insight that will increase their sales.
  • Identify new customers and understand how to engage them with specific brands and products. Develop a strategic marketing plan and find effective ways of turning customers into brand advocates.


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Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.

Provide feedback on Riipen to the student team and to the project organisers.

Be available to attend three meetings during the implementation of the project.

Be available for a quick meeting on Zoom with the module convenor and team supervisor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.