Company Project
Today we received the specifications for our first major group project — the Company Project. The object is to produce a written report (2500 words max) and 15-minute presentation on a potential export or expansion opportunity of a Canadian company.
The hard part is that you need to pick the company, but you are given a specific industry and an assigned country. These are distributed randomly. Due to some rather bad luck, we ended up with a difficult combination — A machinery manufacturing company with an opportunity in Tanzania.
Tanzania, as I’ve recently discovered, is one of the poorest nations in the world. They have recently undertaken a massive privatization program aimed at improving their economy. Our group is currently trying to identify some sort of realistic export opportunity. Then, we need to find a Canadian company that could take advantage of it.
Oh, and did I mention? The project is due next Wednesday — the day after 3 back-to-back exams next week. Yes, the fun is just starting…
September 20th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
Good grief. That’s a huge assignment, and only a week to do it? Yikes! You are brave man for attempting that!
September 26th, 2005 at 10:02 am
Tanzaia would likely have a cheap workforce then…and benefits to employee’s wouldn’t likely have to be as much as what a North American company would spend…sounds horrible to say…but likely true. I would imagine that you would also have pretty loyal employees as jobs would be scarce…