Examples of Supervised Projects

Would you like to propose a mandate to take advantage of the expertise of our post-graduate students?  We can assist you in recruiting a student specializing in one of our options.

Here are a few examples of mandates you could offer them:

Public Accounting, Financial and Strategic Accounting

• Carry out an audit from the accounting results disclosed by the organization
• Participate in the implementation and design of an accounting tool
• Design control systems or information systems
• Carry out an analytical audit of the existing accounting systems

Management Control

• Participate in the implementation of a new management tool such as activity-based costing, balanced scorecard
• Develop new modelling costs
• Participate in the budget process re-engineering
• Develop new performance measurement systems
• Participate in the in-house review of transfer pricing

Organizational Development

• Assess or diagnose a training program, a new management tool, the impact of an organizational change, the predisposition to change or resistance to change
• Participate in the development of a new process (future generation, training), a new program (coaching, mentoring, performance or potential assessment), a new change management or HRM monitoring team
• Carry out an approach, a program, a project, the implementation of a change, a survey feedback
• Develop a new program or activity for management
• Prepare material, support or intervention tools, a change agenda
• Conduct a training session, a workshop, a seminar
• Review procedures, programs or projects
• Recommend improvement to a project, business procedures

Production and Operations Management

• Analysis of the impact of technological changes on the quality of service
• Analysis of the balance between the company's business strategies and its operations strategies
• Development of a system to measure the performance of supply services
• Study of the layout of service areas, plants or warehouses/distribution centres
• Development of an operating report for supplier performance management
• Improvement approach to customer complaint management process
• Environmental audit of operations/development of an integrated approach to ISO 14000 certification
• Logistic performance improvement in hospital environment

Human Resources Management

• Proceed with a staffing or training structure assessment
• Proceed with the evaluation of a compensation structure
• Participate in the implementation of a new management tool
• Realize a pay equity procedure
• Develop a training program
• Participate in a collective bargaining process
• Carry out a research for a union organization
• Prepare a safety and security prevention program

Financial Engineering

• Assess and/or grade a model on the basis of empirical data
• Implement a numerical procedure
• Adapt a software
• Finalize or document the use of a financial product
• Analyze or document risk management practices or investment policies
• Design a model adapted to the specific needs of the organization
• Analyze and summarize the best management practices and literature specific to a particular financial issue

Business Intelligence

• Proceed with customer segmentation through one or several large customer databases and identify customers more likely to accept a specific promotional offer using these same segments
• Use one or several large customer databases to establish, through association rules, pairs of products generally purchased at the same time (or close together).  Measure the influence that a lower price of one product has over the purchase of the associated product

Logistics

• Participate in the design of a logistics or transportation network
• Compare various strategies on demand forecasting and inventory management
• Optimize vehicle routing schedules
• Evaluate and compare warehouse layouts
• Analyse the possibilities of outsourcing logistics activities
• Identify the best sites for production and distribution facilities
• Plan the logistics of humanitarian assistance missions

Management

• Review procedures
• Execute part of the strategic planning (ex: document the corporate environment)
• Plan an organizational change
• Implement a management process for future generations

Marketing

• Develop a marketing plan
• Carry out a qualitative and/or quantitative marketing study based on primary and/or secondary data
• Analyze internal and/or external secondary data to address a business issue
• Assess or diagnose a marketing problem and/or opportunity and make recommendations
• Design and develop recommendations to solve a marketing problem or to explore a marketing opportunity already identified

Business Analytics

• Assess and/or grade one or several quantitative models on the basis of empirical data
• Implement one or several quantitative models and/or one or several algorithms
• Design a quantitative model adapted to the specific needs of the organization
• Analyze and summarize a problem requiring the use of analytical management method tools paired with actual recommendations.

Information Technology

• Document, diagnose (causes/issues/consequences) and re-engineer the business process
• Evaluate the risks of a technology implementation project
• Define and realize a selection process for small/medium scale software
• Identify and define IT needs
• Set and test software solutions
• Model the knowledge
• Diagnose organisational issues (e.g. bias towards technological changes)

Other options

• For the following options: International Business, Applied Economics, Organizational Studies, Finance and Applied Economics, contact the option academic supervisor directly.