This course is a standard 30-point course and therefore students are expected to spend 300 hours of learning during the course or an average of 30 hours per week.
For this course, you will have 3 hours of class time to help you prepare your consultancy report. The class time is used for supervision, company presentations, guest speakers, group work, discussions, student presentations, and other learning activities. The remaining hours will be spent on reading, thinking about the content, and working on assignments, presentations, reports and reflections.
During the term of 10 weeks, students will engage with a participating company to investigate about a business problem. They will collect data from multiple sources, analyse and evaluate the data, and propose viable strategic option(s). Students will be closely supervised by an academic supervisor with active inputs from an authorised company representative. The consultancy project will result in various outputs such as individual reports, presentations and group reports.
The consultancy project allows you to develop and apply your academic understanding and research skills within a real company setting. It will enable you to apply your analytical abilities to industry-based problems while gaining professional experience and management skills.