What makes a strong project
Projects are most successful when they are specific and focused on a strategic issue - not day-to-day operational tasks.
Strong projects typically:
- Involve a strategic-level question (e.g. focusing on a strategic issue, problem, challenge, or opportunity) rather than operational or routine issues.
- Can be scoped and completed within one semester or quarter (with a student or students working on the project for 8-10 weeks).
- Are quite specific. The project length is too short for broad examinations or multiple questions.
- Offer strategic value to the organisation.
- Require research and analysis, not execution.
- Have a dedicated contact person in the organisation who can meet/liaise with the student or student team during the term.
The students understood the needs of the business very quickly. They worked very efficiently throughout and communicated excellently throughout the whole process.