Community Projects

Overview: The Applied Projects program of the TRU School of Business and Economics offers a limited number of local organizations the opportunity to serve as clients for business students applied consulting projects. These projects are coordinated and guided by senior faculty.

We are interested in working with a range of organizational types including non-profit, for-profit, and government organizations.

Carly Rowsome, Donna Lofstrom-Bell (manager of volunteer services at Overlander Residential Care), Christine McLean and Nicole Wallis

Carly, Christine and Nicole 3 forth year business students (human resource majors) completed a project on volunteer recruitment and retention. The group conducted a thorough analysis of Overlander's exiting practices and made a series of recommendations for improvement.

Areas of expertise include:

• Human Resource Management:
  Recruitment, Selection, Training, performance management compensation, team building, change management, labour relations, OH&S.
  Contacts: Mr. Richard Roy or Dr. Len Hutt
• Marketing:
  Consumer marketing, business to business marketing and international marketing related business challenges.
  Contact: Mr. Paul Clark
• Process reengineering, project management, supply chain and logistics strategies.
  Contact: Dr. Avninder Gill
• Strategic planning, process reengineering.
  Contact: Dr. Ravi Prasad
• International business, board development.
  Contact: Mr. Giuseppe Liberatore