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ASSIGNMENT TOPICS:

  • Consulting in strategy, financial, marketing, organizational design, and operations management.
  • Consulting process: entry, diagnosis, and planning.
  • Technology and/or industrial sector focus: several available and selected by each student.

CAPSTONE PROJECT SIMULATION BACKGROUND AND SETTING:

  • When? April 9, 2021 at 4:00 pm.
  • How? Online presentation.
  • Where? BigBlueButton teleconference for session #12.
  • Who? Yourself, a junior consultant at NewCo Consulting Inc. and Tom Peters, head of business development at NewCo Consulting Inc. (“NewCo Consulting”)
  • What? Presentation of your analysis of and recommendations re. consulting opportunities at “Company ABC”.
  • Why? (simulation setting): During your last meeting with Tom Peters on March 26, 2021, he expressed interest in evaluating whether there may be consulting opportunities for NewCo Consulting with company ABC (as per below). As a recent hire as a junior consultant at NewCo Consulting, he asked that you prepare an analysis of Company ABC and potential consulting opportunities and to present it to him and the business development team on April 9, 2021.

CAPSTONE PROJECT SIMULATION TASK:

Develop a 10-page (minimum) to 15-page (maximum) professional MS PPT presentation which includes both 1) your analysis of Company ABC, and 2) your recommendations to Tom Peters and the business development team at NewCo Consulting regarding potential consulting opportunities at Company ABC.

Student | Ticker | Company name | Market capitalization ($) | Industry sector
  • Henna 3. | GCT-C.TO | GVIC Communications Corp. | 75.738M | Communication Services
  • Henna 3. | TAL.V | PetroTal Corp. | 261.173M | Energy
  • Henna 3. | JNH.V | Jack Nathan Medical Corp. | 60.815M | Healthcare
  • Henna 3. | SQD.V | SQI Diagnostics Inc. | 93.691M | Healthcare
  • Henna 3. | PKT.V | Parkit Enterprise Inc. | 389.862M | Industrial
  • Henna 3. | ROXG.TO | Roxgold Inc. | 573.42M | Materials & natural resources
  • Henna 3. | BTV.V | BlueRush Inc. | 30.113M | Technology
  • Henna 3. | SYZ.V | Sylogist Ltd. | 352.556M | Technology

CAPSTONE PROJECT ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES:

The following steps and questions are intended to help you prepare your professional MS PPT preparation, and it is strongly recommended that your answers to these questions be reflected in your MS PPT presentation.

a) Review Company ABC’s website (products/services offered, industries targeted, customers, press releases, investors’ relations, etc.).

b) Identify the key executives at Company ABC (you may use the company website and/or https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/COMPANYABC/profile).

c) Download then analyze Company ABC’s “Annual Reports” for the years 2018, 2019, and 2020. You may use SEDAR (the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval), the system used for electronically filing most securities related information with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Filing with SEDAR started January 1, 1997, and is now mandatory for most reporting issuers in Canada at https://www.sedar.com/search/search_form_pc_en.htm

On Sedar, enter Company Name, select Date of Filing (January 1, 2018 – March 30, 2021), and select “Annual Report”

d) Download then analyze Company ABC’s “Management’s Discussion & Analysis” for the years 2018, 2019, and 2020. You may use SEDAR at https://www.sedar.com/search/search_form_pc_en.htm

On Sedar, enter Company Name, select Date of Filing (January 1, 2018 – March 30, 2021), and select “Management’s Discussion & Analysis”

e) Download then analyze Company ABC’s “Financial statements” for the years 2018, 2019, and 2020. You may use SEDAR at https://www.sedar.com/search/search_form_pc_en.htm

On Sedar, enter Company Name, select Date of Filing (January 1, 2018 – March 30, 2021), and select “Financial Statements” (e.g., Audited annual financial statements)

f) Review Company ABC’s press release announcement for the years 2018, 2019, and 2020. You may use the company website, Business Wire at https://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/news-online/public/, Google News at https://www.google.com (a search for the ticker and company name is recommended (e.g., AMSWA American Software, Inc.), and any other source.

g) Perform a desk research on Company’s ABC, its industry, its products/services, its market(s), and its potential competitors using KPU’s business library at https://libguides.kpu.ca/busi. If possible, identify relevant business statistics at https://libguides.kpu.ca/busistatistics including but not limited to:

h) The following questions are intended to help you prepare your professional MS PPT preparation, and it is strongly recommended that your answers to these questions be reflected in your MS PPT presentation.

  1. What is ABC’s mission? You may refer to Cases, readings and preparation questions (on general management & strategy consulting) for session #2 at: https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2150812
  2. Using any framework (e.g., Ansoff matrix model), how would you describe ABC’s growth strategy over the past three (3) years, the forces that supported/drove its growth and the challenges the company encountered? You may refer to Cases, readings and preparation questions (on general management & strategy consulting) for session #2 at: https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2150812
  3. How did ABC innovate over the past 3 years? You may refer to Cases, readings and group assignment #1 (on innovation management consulting) due for session #3 at https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2161174
  4. What are ABC’s main products and services, distribution channels, market segments, target customers, and marketing tactics? You may refer to Cases, readings, and individual assignment #1 (on marketing strategy and technology marketing consulting) due for session #5 at https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2178871
  5. Can you identify 2 to 3 main competitors for Company ABC and evaluate their relative strengths and weakness? You may refer to Cases, readings, and individual assignment #1 (on marketing strategy and technology marketing consulting) due for session #5 at https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2178871
  6. Does Company ABC use any social media channel (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) to engage and/or communicate with its customers and other stakeholders? You may refer to Cases, readings, and preparation questions (on social media & data analytics) for session #4 at https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2170852
  7. Analyse Company ABC’s financial performance (income statement and balance sheet at minimum) over the past 3 years using both common size measures and a minimum of 5 financial ratio. You may refer to Cases, readings, and preparation questions (on financial management consulting) for session #4 at https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2170852
  8. From Company ABC’s website, Annual Report, and Management’s Discussion & Analysis documents what did you learn regarding the use of information systems (e.g., ERP, CRM, KMS, etc.), cloud computing, and data analytics at ABC? You may refer to Cases, readings, and preparation questions for session #6 (on information systems and technology consulting) at https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2185312. You may also refer to Case, readings, and preparation questions (on analytics, big data and knowledge management consulting) for session #7 at https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2192371
  9. Can you identify and describe a minimum of 3 planned changes which were introduced and a minimum of 3 unplanned changes faced by the leadership at Company ABC? You may refer to Cases, readings, and group assignment #2 (on consulting in organizational design and human resource management, managing change, leadership & improving organization effectiveness) due for session #8 at https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2204984
  10. Overall, what did you learn about Company ABC’s operations strategy and its operations? You may refer to Cases, readings, and preparation questions (on consulting in operations management, supply chain management and e-business) for session #9 at https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2215080
  11. Can you identify and describe any product and/or service quality-related issues Company ABC? You may refer to Cases, readings, and individual assignment #2 (on quality management and TQM (DMAIC) consulting) due for session #10 at https://courses.kpu.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=2222323

i) Based on all above, can you identify at minimum two potential management problems or two management consulting opportunities that you would like to suggest to the business management team at NewCo Consulting as part of a potential consulting entry meeting with Company ABC? Make sure to analyze each of the two problems or opportunities that you identified using each of the following dimensions: a) substance, b) organizational and physical location, c) ownership, d) absolute and relative magnitude, e) time perspective, f) causes, g) other significant relationships, h) potential to solve the problem, and i) potential directions of further action. How would you generate solutions for and evaluate these potential solutions as a consultant?

The following are recommended readings to develop a professional MS PPT presentation:

  • Lowe, D. (2018). Chapter 4: Proofing Your Presentations, Chapter 7: All about Fonts and Text Formatting, Chapter 8: Designing Your Slides, Chapter 9: Animating Your Slides, Chapter 11: Inserting Pictures, and Chapter 20: Ten PowerPoint Commandments in PowerPoint 2019 for dummies. Place of publication not identified: John Wiley and Sons (US). Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/y5m5cb2n
  • Morton, S., Evans, P., & Warwick, A. (2014). Element C: The Base Elements of Your Presentation and Element D: Creating Compelling Content in The presentation lab: Learn the formula behind powerful presentations. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/y6xjv39c

The following are recommended readings to prepare for your presentation to other students: Karten, N. (2010). Chapter 1: Overview of the Basics, Chapter 3: Attributes of Good and Bad Presentations, Chapter 5: Key Steps in Shaping Your Presentation, Chapter 6: Openings and Closings, Chapter 9: Using (Without Misusing) PowerPoint, Chapter 12: The Vital Role of Practice, Chapter 13: How to Make a Winning Impression, Chapter 19: Presenting to Customers in Presentation skills for technical professionals: Achieving excellence. Ely, U.K: IT Governance. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/y3uev6za



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