The main objective of this research project is to determine if there are factors that can be used to predict future demand for StemCell Technologies products more accurately than current practices of extrapolated revenue growth.  This will require an in-depth study into StemCell’s demand management, forecasting and supply chain planning functions.  The completion of […]

  The project involves applying a conceptual modeling method called R2M, Role and Request Modeling.  The innovative method, and its supporting software (R2M-ST), was developed at the University of British Columbia.  R2M assists business analysts to accurately capture organizational roles, interactions, services and IT resources as described by business process owners and abstract the information […]

  Mr. Ilkin Ilyaszade is a UBC MBA Student working on business case / investor survey during his internship with Rocket Builders management consulting company in Vancouver BC. As part of this project, Ilkin will be responsible for the design and execution of a comprehensive qualitative survey of the angel investment community involved in the […]

  This project will primarily involve the commercialization and business development strategies of Optemo’s shopping platform. While Optemo experienced positive results from its trial run with Best Buy Canada, it needs to acquire the ideal customers in order to generate momentum and awareness of the product and its benefits. It will be important to identify […]

  Scoop is an innovative web and mobile application for business professionals, who have to spend significant amount of their working time outside the office. This application allows the teams to communicate faster, easier and more efficiently by providing the opportunity to explain the very small details of the project applying natural interpersonal communication habits […]

  While effective execution of projects (project management) is important to the ultimate success of organizations, choosing the right set of projects to pursue (project portfolio management or PPM) is just as critical. The proposed research will focus on an important, yet understudied, complexity of the PPM problem: the effect of competition. Since the success of projects, such as […]

  There is currently a large and growing unmet demand for affordable moderate-income rental housing in Metro Vancouver. To address this issue, recent studies and programs have focused on increasing the supply of purpose-built rental apartments, and condo and secondary suite sublets, but another potential mechanism which has been little explored is mixed-tenure housing (projects […]

  Sustainability is a large concern for a number of communities as fossil fuel reserves are in decline, and water resourcse are becoming scarce. To that end, it is becoming increasingly important for communities to have sustainable solutions to food and energy. This initiative will explore agricultural, energy and other market opportunities and their impact […]

  The purpose of this project is to develop a mathematical model that will effectively answer scheduling and capacity planning challenges for meeting wait time targets for surgeries at Ottawa Hospital. We look to incorporate both operating room time and bed utilization in a sequential decision model of the surgical scheduling process from ‘decision to […]

This work can serve as the foundation of relative value strategies and portfolio sensitivity analysis. This project research on building a strategy for analyzing the sensitivity of mortgage backed securities (MBS) pool pricing to changes in financial market and underlying security characteristics, such as the property value of the underlying real estate. There is a […]

Approximately one fifth of all silver produced in North America comes from recycled sources. A large percentage of this is recovered from medical x-rays. Essential Silver Incorporated (ESI) is a silver recycling business based in British Columbia. The company proposes to purchase and streamline a number of silver recycling businesses across North America using x-rays […]

  The research focuses on governance in outsourcing relationships While the outsourcing industry grows at double digit rates, satisfaction with outsourcing arrangements could certainly be improved. Often the source of dissatisfaction, governance is a broad term that includes formal issues such as contracts and service level agreements, as well as informal issues such as relationship management and trust. The […]