As a client, you are able to participate in a studio sprint, lasting three weeks in length. The sprints take place in May and June.

Your organization will offer unique insights into their current service offering, end-user profiles and their vision for the organization’s future. Our student teams will engage in primary and secondary research to build empathy for the context and then ideate the potential of adopting various digital technologies toward ‘what’s possible” in progressing toward the client's vision. Each sprint will conclude with multiple teams presenting to their client at a Design Fair.

We are committed to the continued development of projects and corporate relationships, and will work with organizations to have their projects continued past the IDIS three-week sprint, including the continuation of projects with other program cohorts.

Summer 2023 partners:

• Sutherland Elliott Insurance Brokers,
• Denning’s Funeral Homes
• St.John Ambulance Therapy Dog
• Parts Canada
• Sick Kids Hospital
• CIBC

Timeline for IDIS: We start our client engagement process with clients as early as the Fall of the year prior to the studio to run and it continues until even after the studio ends if further project opportunities develop.

These multi-lingual students participate in consultancy-like projects designed as a real-life learning experiences to gain insight into business life, train their analytical and problem-solving skills, apply research methods, transfer theoretical knowledge into practice, learn process management and acquire social skills across cultures. There are only 34 partnering Global Alliance schools worldwide, so this is a unique opportunity to gain access to this talent. Check out where these students come from.

These consultancy-like business projects reinforce the partnership between universities and companies, in jointly shaping the students’ learning process in international management.

The MSc CEMS Business Project (“BP”) course has been designed to provide students with an opportunity to apply the business concepts, principles, and theories that they have acquired during their formal business education to a consulting project for a client organization.

Students work in teams and each team is paired with a client with which they’d work to identify a material strategic issue, opportunity, challenge, or problem facing the organization which is integral to the its future success.

The BP team members are responsible for defining and scoping the entire project, as well as developing a work plan. Students engage in efforts to develop a deeper understanding of their client organization, its business, and the broader industry within which it competes. This will include sizing-up the firm’s external environment and its internal (organizational) environment, as well as assessing its resources, capabilities, and the preferences of its key stakeholders.

BP teams then propose alternative solutions to the client’s issue(s) and assess these proposed alternatives both qualitatively and quantitatively against relevant decision criteria.

Global Alliance Business Project: The project runs in the Winter term from January to the end of March. Interested organizations are encouraged to reach out during the previous summer and fall for preparation.

Ivey Field Project is a capstone course which examines several functional areas of business (i.e. new product launches, modifying operational processes or even the need for a structured employee recruitment strategy).

These pro-bono consulting ventures span from September to December and encompass various business functions, including new product launches, operational process enhancements, recruitment strategy structuring, and more.

Want to be involved in the HBA Ivey Field Project? Your organization can sponsor a project beginning in April by defining a basic problem which will be reviewed by our faculty members. If approved, you will have engagement in June and throughout the summer to secure a finalized statement in August. Students will work on the project from September to November and are expected to present their recommendations to clients between December and mid-January.

Ivey Field Project is a capstone course which examines several functional areas of business (i.e. new product launches, modifying operational processes or even the need for a structured employee recruitment strategy).

Students are expected to understand the firm’s industry environment, its business model, and the challenges brought forward to identify critical solutions through the use of data. The MMA cohort exercises their quantitative skills by identifying, analyzing, and consolidating data from all aspects of an organization to effectively create insights that will be meaningful to their client’s organization and add value to their decision making.

Previous examples include but are not limited to logistical planning, labour market predictions and talent retention, streamlining operational processes to maximize revenue, forecasting customer purchasing behaviour for the creation of loyalty programs, and more.

MMA IFP: Clients often work with our team throughout the school year to prepare for their summer term projects.

Ivey Field Project is a capstone course which examines several functional areas of business (i.e. new product launches, modifying operational processes or even the need for a structured employee recruitment strategy).

These projects are from companies with $1M+ annual revenues over the last 12 months, and can shape a problem that has a multi-million dollar opportunity.

Want to be involved in the MBA Ivey Field Project? Your organization can sponsor a project beginning in April by defining a basic problem which will be reviewed by our faculty members. If approved, you will have engagement in June and throughout the summer to secure a finalized statement in August. Students will work on the project from September to November and are expected to present their recommendations to clients between December and mid-January.

These consultancy-like project are designed to provide students with an opportunity to apply business concepts, principles and theories that they have acquired throughout their program to in a real-world setting with a partnering client. Students work in teams with a client to identify and scope a strategic issue, opportunity, challenge, or problem and develop solutions that will contribute to the success of the organization.  

Clients and projects are developed and scoped at a high level to determine their fit with the student groups and appropriate timeline for participation (July/August). Organizations are not limited and are able to submit proposals in strategy, sales, marketing, data analysis and operational planning.  

Similar to the Advanced field projects, Community Field Projects work exclusively with non-profit organizations, charities, or start-up organizations.