Team Based Consulting Project

A key feature of ESSAM is the group project which is completed during the Summer School.

Participants are assigned to a multi-cultural project group with the purpose of studying a strategic issue in a local company, developing a feasible way forward, and presenting a consultancy report.
The reports are subsequently evaluated and represent part of the overall assessment of ESSAM. Prizes are awarded for the best group projects.

Participants are divided into small cross-cultural groups each with the task of writing and presenting a consultancy report on a local company. The group project gives the participants a unique opportunity to experience the internal as well as the external situation of a company. Each group is expected to: suggest strategies for further development of the company, present proposals and suggest an implementation of the strategies proposed.

The groups are invited to visit their allocated companies on Tuesday 24 June to talk to the managers and obtain information material on the companies. Every afternoon as well as the whole Saturday and Monday of the second week the groups meet and work on the project. All projects must be handed in by Tuesday 1st July at 12.00 and presentations as well as the award ceremony for the best group projects will take place on Friday 4th July.