SSE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS FALL 2021
SSE LIVE PROJECT IN MANAGEMENT
Get qualified help in operations most pressing challenges right now Applicable theoretical insights from operations and change management research
Contribute to student learning as part of your organizations CSR work
WHAT CAN YOU LEARN FROM THE CRISIS?
A CONSULTING PROJECT
The Covid-19 crisis has challenged organizations and their operations in extreme ways. In response, new ways of working have been developed and tested. The
question is, how do you make sure that you leverage from this stress test? Do you have a plan to incorporate emergent innovative ways of working into a more permanent process? How should you utilize the effects that this crisis has had on your employees digital maturity? There are plenty of operational aspects to this crisis that our students can help you with!
A team of 5–6 senior SSE students, acting as consultants, can help you answer this question (or another relevant operations-related question) by analyzing a business process of your choice. In doing so, they will identify key learning points and design an implementation plan to help your organization benefit from them.
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CONCRETE DELIVERABLES In-depth analysis
Improvement solutions Implementation plan
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FRESH, THEORY-BASED
PERSPECTIVE on your business process, by talented
students who are studying change
management and operations
management
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EXPERT COACHING by SSE faculty,
on top of the extensive work and commitment by SSE
students
When?
From September 2021 to mid- December 2021
What types of processes qualify?
Any business process that was challenged and adapted during the crisis qualifies.
Processes that were significantly disrupted and where novel solutions were tested are especially interesting as sources of lessons for the future. If you have other business challenges related to business processes, these may also qualify.
design, run and improve operations and processes (by means of, e.g., lean thinking, quality management, agile, process re-engineering) and how to plan and implement organizational change (by addressing human, political and contextual issues).
The Live Project gives students the opportunity to put their theory-based knowledge into action in a real context, and thereby develop their management skills;
and it gives you the opportunity to benefit from their commitment to learn and their ambition to become brilliant problem solvers and change agents.
KEY DATES
• June 1st: inform us of your interest to provide an SSE Live Project in Fall 2021.
• August 13th: send us a one-page (max)
description of the process or business challenge to be addressed in the Live project.
• August 30th: one student team will be assigned to your Live project.
• September–December 2021: the assigned student team works as consultants on your process or business challenge. The amount and frequency of interaction, the exact contents and the deliverables are decided by the client organization, in agreement with the team.
• December 10th: the final deliverables are submitted and the Live project concludes.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The students of the specialization in management at the Stockholm School of Economics each year engage in real life consulting projects related to organizational processes and operations. In this Live project, we encourage projects with diverse foci departing in operations. However, as we have special circumstances this year, we specifically encourage contributions that entail analysing an organizational / business process in relation to how it was adapted during the Covid-19 crisis in your organization. The analysis from our
students would focus on the following issues in regard to a process of your choice:
1. What is the nature of the process and how was it adapted due to the crisis?
2. What were the key challenges and enablers in adapting the process to the crisis situation?
3. What can be learned from the crisis a) for running the process in the future b) for making the process more resilient to future disturbances?
4. What is required to implement these changes?
ABOUT THE COURSE
The SSE Live Project in Management is the backbone of the specialization in management which runs in the 3rd year of the Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics (hhs.se/en/education/bsc/be), SSE’s flagship program. The project runs across the two courses Management: Operations and Management consulting and change.
In the courses, students develop their understanding of two key aspects of business administration: how to
TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST AND/OR FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT US!
Anna Fahlgård Lahache, Teachers assistant and Live project coordinator anna.fahlgardlahache@phdstudent.hhs.se
Andreas Werr, professor and course director ∙ andreas.werr@hhs.se ∙ 08-736 97 42 Holmer Kok, assistant professor and course director ∙ holmer.kok@hhs.se ∙ 08-736 95 77
SSE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS FALL 2021
Stockholm School of Economics ∙ Box 6501 ∙ SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden +46 8 736 90 00 ∙ info@hhs.se ∙ www.hhs.se
