Center for Business Integration
Student Projects Program Overview
The Center for Business Integration (CBI) at the Leeds School of Business brings together local businesses, business students, and faculty to collaborate in solving business problems important to your organization through project-based work.
Program Objectives and Benefits to Your Organization
- Provides you with a powerful, problem-solving team including our students, faculty and other resources available from the University. In addition we require at least one resource from your organization to act as the project manager.
- Provide valuable skills and resources to your organization for important limited-term projects, for a nominal $500 fee.
- Engage in projects which provide our students with real-world experience prior to graduation and help you address a specific business problem you either haven’t had the time or resources to tackle.
- Create opportunities that will help our students get better jobs and be able to get “up to speed” much more quickly than a typical new-hire.
- Provide a means for employers to see students perform relevant and significant work as an aid to hiring decisions.
- Is an excellent short-term resource when expertise and effort are required, but in house resources are limited.
Next Steps: Getting Your Project Considered
Sound like a win-win situation, and you’re ready to take a closer look?
When your organization has a project that could benefit from our program, the process of engaging our student and faculty resources in a formal project is straightforward:
- Make an assessment of your project to see if it meets one or more of our Program Objectives.
- Call Jim Marlatt, CBI Director at (720) 933-5541 to discuss your project.
- If there is a good fit, complete the Request a Project form (see link below). Please fax the completed form to 303-492-7676, to the attention of CBI, or email the form to Leeds.liaison@Colorado.edu by the submission deadline date, December 9, 2009.
- Attend the next project fair on January 20, 2010 (5 pm to 6 pm) to present your project to our students for consideration.
- If your project is chosen, the student team will start work immediately on it.
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