INFORMATION FOR POTENTIAL CLIENTS

Company Benefits

  • Obtain a fresh, unbiased look at a significant business issue, strategic opportunity, operational problem or organizational challenge
  • Work with a highly motivated and intelligent group of business students
  • Receive a professional consulting report supervised by world-class faculty and excellent mentors
  • Gain exposure to the latest business tools, techniques and theories
  • Gain access to a growing number of Executives-in-Residence
  • Evaluate several students’ strategic abilities first-hand to determine whether they would eventually add value to your company as future employees
  • Partner with Ivey in the hands-on education of future business leaders

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Company Requirements

To be considered for a project, companies must first complete our online application, providing company and potential project information. Once approved, client companies must agree to the following:

  • Identify a cross-enterprise challenge confronting your company. Cross-Enterprise Leadership challenges issues that span the entire enterprise - issues like growth, innovation, productivity and globalization
  • Provide a management liaison to interact directly with the ICP team and who is interested in the students’ learning experience, is available to students and is willing to challenge students’ knowledge and findings
  • Provide the resources necessary for students to carry out the project successfully, including company information and personnel
  • Reimburse students' project related out-of-pocket expenses

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Confidentiality

Students are expected to maintain the highest ethical and professional standards. Both students and administration treat all information, research, and analyses completed during the course of the ICP as strictly confidential. No information will be used for any purpose beyond the scope of the specified project without written permission from the client. The project coordinator will keep a copy of the final written report on file and hold it in the strictest confidence.

The ICP is a professional consulting relationship and requires access to sensitive company information. Of all the factors involved in the ICP, none is more important than the strict observance of the promise to the client that all information be handled on a “100-percent confidential” basis. No member of any group shall reveal to anyone outside their group, except their supervisor and mentor, anything reported to them by the client company. Any deviation from the strict maintenance of the highest possible code of professional behavior in this regard reflects upon the integrity and discretion of the individual, their group, their class and the School. The ICP office and the Richard Ivey School of Business consider this matter to be of such importance that any person or group who violates this understanding will be failed.

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Executives-in-Residence (EIR or Mentor)

Part of the ICP experience is the availability and use of mentors for student teams. EIRs are individuals outside of the Business School who are proven leaders in their professional and personal lives and who wish to help the School and students in some way. The EIRs are screened and selected through a rigorous process and then trained on the ICP and their roles within it.

The role of EIR is to aid the student teams by offering them a resource to guide them through their project. The EIR does not take an active role in determining any policy or recommendations, but questions the students on their assumptions, methodologies, analysis and “plan of attack.” They also review deliverables prior to presentation to the clients and serve as quality control.

Clients may opt not to permit the use of EIRs for confidentiality reasons. However, the ICP office stresses that EIRs operate under the same standards of confidentiality as the School and the students and that the quality of work and final deliverables has proven to be much higher for teams that have used EIRs. Clients can be made aware of the team EIR, if desired. The ICP office seeks to match EIRs with teams and projects that will prevent conflict of interest situations from arising.

 
Executives-in-Residence Biographies

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Student Requirements

  • Conduct initial fact-finding mission at client company
  • Prepare and present an industry analysis and company size-up. Framing the Cross- Enterprise Leadership challenge
  • Develop a work plan and identify deliverables addressing the Cross-Enterprise Leadership challenge client companies
  • Present work plan and deliverables to faculty supervisor and EIR, and then to client. Get agreement on final deliverables.
  • Submit written report to faculty supervisor and EIR.
  • Deliver final oral presentation to faculty supervisor and EIR.
  • Submit and present final written report and recommendations to client
  • Obtain letter from client that final project was received

Student Learning

  • Strengthen critical thinking and analytical skills
  • Develop project management skills
  • Develop outstanding teamwork skills
  • Develop consultancy skills
  • Strengthen written and oral communication skills
  • Enhance ability to solve business problems from a multidisciplinary perspective
  • Implement core first year strategy course concepts, methodologies and tools

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Past ICP Client Companies
 
  • 3M Canada
  • Accenture
  • AT&T
  • Bank of China
  • Bell Canada
  • Bombardier
  • Charles Schwab 
  • Covent Garden Market
  • Deloitte & Touche
  • Diabetogen
  • Ericsson
  • Estee Lauder
  • General Electric
  • General Motors
  • Goodwill
  • IBM
  • Junior Achievement
  • London Transit Commission
  • Make a Wish Foundation
  • Pharmascience Inc.
  • Philips Medical Systems
  • The Toronto Blue Jays
  • United Way
  • Western Fair Raceway

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Key Selection Dates

Companies wanting to participate in the ICP and partner with a student team are invited to complete our online application. There are two project periods (HBA and MBA) as shown below.

Potential clients are encouraged to apply two months in advance. Suitable projects will be made available to teams for selection on a first-come, first-served basis. Prospective client companies will be contacted within two weeks after completing the online application for the approval process.
 
Please note:

Submit your online application between January and August 31, 2012 for the approval process review for our ICP 2012-2013 academic year.

ICP MBA teams begin working on their approved project by early May 2012

ICP HBA teams begin working on their approved project by Sept. 1, 2012 

 
 

Program Option

 ICP Course Starts ICP Course Completed
Option 1-HBA March 2012 April 2013
Option 2-MBA May 2012 March 2013

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