Looking to elevate your organization, and bring it to the next level? Bring on students from University of Southampton Business School to be your student-consultants, in a project-based experience. Students will work on one main project over the course of the semester, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools. Sustainability is increasingly on the minds of key stakeholder groups, preparing including Investors, lenders, customers, suppliers and Employees. A Sustainability Report prepared by Southampton students provides your organisation the opportunity to: Seek out and gather important data, that might not otherwise be brought to the attention of management Reflect on your current position and whether this meets your expectations Think strategically, set appropriate targets, KPIs and measure your progress towards them Communicate all of this to internal and external stakeholders

The student will undertake a critical analysis of the company's digital marketing strategy, how it drives customer engagement, and the Martech it deploys to deliver and measure that strategy. This analysis will be undertaken against the backdrop of the company's customer value proposition, segmentation and positioning. Based on this analysis, the student will write a report making specific digital marketing recommendations. This is an opportunity for your company to benefit from fresh perspectives and ideas.

Offer: Individual students from Southampton, UK are seeking live-client opportunities to design, gather and evaluate customer experience satisfaction surveys (preferably from consumers, rather than B2B) for your firm. What you gain: Do you work for, or own, an existing SERVICE firm, where you'd really like to know what your current customers like about your offer, but don't have the time to do it? Our students will work with you to create, launch and evaluate the results from an online survey asking what your customers value, want and expect from your service experience. Outputs: Then, they generate a tailored report based on statistical analyses and four key recommendations for your firm, to address any related issues. This provides 'real-world', applied learning for students and practical insights for your business!

Student project to develop a "going global" digital business plan for your company Students will evaluate the digital trends, opportunities, and drivers in your industry or company. The outcome will be: Group presentation -The theme for the group presentation is ‘Going Global Digital Business Plan Pitch’. An individual report -analyzing the current digital business context and / or the proposed digital business plan for your company.

Are you working in an industry that is changing fast because of new, digital technologies? How are your competitors changing? How do customers or users feel about the changes? What's coming on the horizon, and are you prepared? We can help you to explore these issues, in a student 'digital consultancy' project. Student teams will: Work with you to understand the problem area for applying new digital technologies Analyze and classify your existing business model Evaluate the trends, opportunities, and changes happening in your industry Produce a report presenting a strategy for implementing a new digital technology in your organization We are in a global top 100 University, and Southampton business school is top 10 in multiple UK rankings.

Looking to elevate your organization, and bring it to the next level? Bring on students from the University of Southampton to be your student-consultants, in a project-based experience. Students will work on one main project over the course of the semester, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools. Students in this module will be studying the unprecedented range of applications that support digital marketing, ranging from ‘out of the box’ applications to support changing digital ecosystem such as e-mail marketing, search engine marketing, social media marketing, affiliate/influencer marketing as well as enabling technologies for marketing such as website design, user experience implementation, engagement and metrics.

As part of the Business Challenge, Students will work in small teams to solve a real-life business issue provided by a real client. Students will work with the client to co-create a brief both parties are happy with, that aims to tackle a business challenge whilst developing the students transferrable skills and enhancing their employability. Students will need to explore the issue and report back to the client, providing recommendations of solutions to the problem. The client briefing session will take place on the 15th June 12:00 - 15:00 in person and the recommendations will be presented in July at both the teams' and organisations convenience.

Students will undertake a critical analysis of the company's digital marketing strategy, how it drives customer engagement, and the MarTech it deploys to deliver and measure that strategy. This analysis will be undertaken against the backdrop of the company's customer value proposition, segmentation and positioning.

Do you work in/own an existing, operational SERVICE based organisation, where you'd really like to know what your current and past customers value, want and prefer about your service experience, but don't have the time or capacity to find it out? Then let our students to do it for you! The services sector remains an integral component of a thriving local, national and global economy. This area of study is critical since services are inherently unique and possess characteristics not seen in other areas of marketing and business. Indeed, the intangible nature of services offers marketers a range of interesting opportunities but also poses many significant challenges. Students in this module will take a critical and research-oriented perspective, and will be exposed to concepts ranging from customer experience management, relationship development, services buyer behaviour, service innovation, service quality and issues surrounding the management of employees and human resources practice.

Do you have an accounting or finance challenge you want to tackle? Our students are from an engineering background learning to apply business, accounting and finance knowledge in a real-world setting. Student-teams will apply the principles of financial accounting, corporate finance and financial management of organizations to address a challenge or opportunity of your choice. Upon completion of the project, you will receive a detailed report and presentation.

Student consultants from Southampton Business School will help your organization implement and investigate strategies to predict and optimize processes through the use of financial data analytics techniques and tools. Students can uncover insights into challenges or opportunities specific to your organization.

Are you working in an industry that is changing fast because of new, digital technologies? How are your competitors changing? How do customers or users feel about the changes? What's coming on the horizon, and are you prepared? Are you working in a traditional industry which has not been affected very much? Are you wondering what digital methods and tools are available to you, and how that might change how you operate? What are your competition doing? We can help you to explore these issues, in a student 'digital consultancy' project. Student teams will: Analyse and classify your existing business model Evaluate the trends, opportunities and changes happening in your industry Produce a report presenting a strategy for business model innovation in your organisation We are in a global top 100 University, and Southampton business school is top 10 in multiple UK rankings.

Do you work for or own a SERVICE based organisation, where you'd really like to know what your customers value, want and prefer about your service experience, but don't have the time or capacity to undertake a survey and analyse the results? Then come and provide a brief for our students and let them do it for you! Individual students are seeking service firm live client opportunities to design, gather and evaluate customer experience satisfaction surveys (preferably a B2C customers rather than B2B) for your firm.

With increasing environmental awareness comes a need for commercially sustainable solutions to energy and resource conservation. The challenge lies in translating environmentally sound technologies into viable market solutions and business ventures - just because it is the right thing to do does not mean that customers will buy! In this project, students will develop a strategic plan to address your organization’s challenge(s), particularly in terms of the environmental agenda as it relates to the political, social-economic, technological, and organisational context. Students will assess whether they believe that the company will be successful in light of the challenges that they identify and, finally, to propose an action plan of how to overcome them. Upon completion of the project, you will receive a a 20-minute presentation with recommendations on how to tackle the challenges for your initiative(s).

Students will undertake a critical analysis of the company's social media marketing strategy, how it drives customer engagement, and the MarTech it deploys to deliver and measure that strategy. This analysis will be undertaken against the backdrop of the company's customer value proposition, segmentation and positioning.

Do you have an accounting or finance challenge you want to tackle? Our students are from an engineering background learning to apply business, accounting and finance knowledge in a real-world setting. Student-teams will apply the principles of financial accounting, corporate finance and financial management of organizations to address a challenge or opportunity of your choice. Upon completion of the project, you will receive a detailed report and presentation.

Do you have a strategic business problem or challenge you want to tackle? Would you like to improve your organizational efficiency? In this project, MBA students from the University of Southampton Business School will provide insights and recommendations on a strategic challenge or opportunity of your choice. Students will bring together all their learning on the programme to conduct extended research on your organization's challenge. Upon completion of the project, you will receive a detailed report and presentation.

Do you want to ensure that your organization is incorporating equitable practices that are inclusive and meet current diversity standards? Is your organization staying on top of the most current issues that exist within a Human Resources Management (HRM) context across a global workplace? In this project, student-consultants working in teams will work with your organization to address a contemporary HRM challenge you're faced with and identify a strategy to address the issue. Upon completion of the project, you will receive a detailed report and presentation.

Do you have a digital marketing challenge you want to tackle? A strong understanding of the present market context and digital competition is key to unlocking new opportunities in building a strong relationship with your existing and prospective customers. Whether you are launching a new product, promoting your business online and/ or offline, or trying to consider pottential new audiences, digital marketing is an essential part of your marketing strategical approach. In this project, our students will analyze current situation analysis of your organization, value proposition and existing communication channels; understand possible segments you might consider for a new digital communication plan; explore integrative digital and offline communication channels to improve the efficiency of your marketing communication approach; evaluate possible KPIs to focus on while implementing the new plan; present other marketing variables that might need adjustments.

Do you have a business analytics challenge you would like to tackle? Would you like to automate repetitive analytics processes? In this project, student-consultants will apply knowledge and skills for writing structured computer programs, with a specific focus on Visual Basic for Application (VBA). Given a data analytics challenge relevant to your business context they will develop a VBA app for automating processes in Microsoft Excel.

Are you up to date on the unique opportunities and challenges facing social ventures? The central driver for social entrepreneurship is the social problem being addressed in an innovative and entrepreneurial way, with an objective to create and sustain social and economic value. In this course students bring with them entrepreneurial skills and frameworks required to create and scale up a social venture. A team of students will develop a feasibility plan or focused recommendations for your social venture to help you pursue an opportunity; or overcome a challenge that you are facing; or scale up and expand your social venture's activities.

Are you a representative of a SERVICE based organisation, where you'd really like to know what your customers value, want and prefer about your service experience, but don't have the time or capacity to find it out? Then come and provide a brief for our students to do it for you! Individual students are seeking projects to evaluate the customer experience (preferably a B2C customer rather than B2B but this can be worked around!) of your firm.

Are you working in an industry that is changing fast because of new, digital technologies? How are your competitors changing? How do customers or users feel about the changes? What's coming on the horizon, and are you prepared? Are you working in a traditional industry which has not been affected very much? Are you wondering what digital methods and tools are available to you, and how that might change how you operate? What are your competition doing? We can help you to explore these issues, in a student 'digital consultancy' project. Student teams will: Analyse and classify your existing business model Evaluate the trends, opportunities and changes happening in your industry Produce a report presenting a strategy for business model innovation in your organisation We are in a global top 100 University, and Southampton business school is top 10 in multiple UK rankings.

Using strategic analysis tool(s) e.g. SWOT, PESTLE analysis, students will critically analyze and examine your company's marketing-related aspects (such as customer relationship management, segmentation, positioning, and branding strategies) Based on the analysis, the goal is to identify the current challenges of your company in marketing-related aspects and produce a 5-year strategic plan to help your company solve this current marketing challenge on the chosen aspect.

The students will learn the building blocks of digital marketing and focus on how to convey a company's value proposition to its key users through its digital real estate. They will prepare a digital plan outlining how the company can use digital to grow awareness and conversions in a key market.

Student project to develop a "going global" digital business plan for your company Students will evaluate the digital trends, opportunities, and drivers in your industry or company. The outcome will be: Group presentation -The theme for the group presentation is ‘Going Global Digital Business Plan Pitch’. A group report -analyzing the current digital business context and / or the proposed digital business plan for your company.

The students will learn the building blocks of digital marketing and focus on how to convey a company's value proposition to its key users through its digital real estate. They will prepare a digital plan outlining how the company can use digital to grow awareness and conversions in a key market.

Student project to develop a "going global" digital business plan for your company Students will evaluate the digital trends, opportunities, and drivers in your industry or company. The outcome will be: Group presentation -The theme for the group presentation is ‘Going Global Digital Business Plan Pitch’. A group report -analyzing the current digital business context and / or the proposed digital business plan for your company.

Using a digital marketing framework, e.g. SOSTAC (Situation analysis, Objectives, Strategy, Tactics, Action, and Control), students will prepare a digital plan for a company. The goal is to produce an innovative plan which is thoroughly underpinned by desk-based research, ideation workshops with company, and leading-edge academic research and commercial thought leadership.

Are you a representative of a SERVICE based organisation, where you'd really like to know what your customers value, want and prefer about your service experience, but don't have the time or capacity to find it out? Then come and provide a brief for our students to do it for you! Individual students are seeking projects to evaluate the customer experience (preferably a B2C customer rather than B2B but this can be worked around!) of your firm.