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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

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Module Title
Module Code (ITS)
Faculty School
Module Co-ordinatorSemester 1: John Loonam
Semester 2: John Loonam
Autumn: John Loonam
Module TeachersJohn Loonam
Nuala Lonergan
NFQ level 9 Credit Rating
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
None
Description

The Strategic Consultancy Project is an educational collaboration between a client organisation and DCU Business School. The module requires students to work with the client company as a consulting team to overcome highly complex, fragmented, and ambiguous organizational challenges. This module will require consulting teams to diagnose and analyze a specific organizational challenge. Students will be required to engage with the client in field research, analyze data, propose interventions for planned change, and make recommendations to senior management for strategic action.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explore Strategic Management consulting and the tools and techniques in collecting and analysing field data;
2. Critically analyse the nature and characteristics of strategy in management consulting, and the role of consultants, in resolving organisational issues at indigenous and global levels
3. Evaluate and apply key attributes sought by companies in the engagement of management consultants including interpersonal skills, time management, commercial awareness, initiative within ambiguity, independent learning and team collaboration skills, and effectively communicating recommendations to stakeholders
4. Research, analyse, evaluate and propose practical and responsible business options given the project constraints in consulting work
5. Understand complex and unstructured situations by identifying the core strategic challenges and issues.



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture32Consultancy Tools & Techniques
Seminars18Project Progress reporting
Lecture36Academic supervision
Lecture24Industry Mentor
Professional Practice65On-site Research
Independent Study200Working on Group assignments
Total Workload: 375

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment% Examination Weight%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Report(s)Executive Briefing Client Report15%n/a
PresentationConsulting teams will make a Presentation on their findings to respective client organisations15%n/a
Group assignmentFinal 30,000 word group assignment70%n/a
Indicative Reading List

  • Jones, B and M. Brazzel: 2006, The NTL Handbook of Organization Development & Change: Principles, Practices, and Perspectives, Wiley Publications, San Francisco,
  • 0: Coghlan, D., 2019. Doing action research in your own organization. Sage.,
Other Resources

None

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