Eller Business Consulting Projects
We have worked with a variety of clients and students on successful consulting projects.
Eller Business Consulting Projects are tailored to real-world business challenges in the areas of finance and accounting, general management, management information systems, marketing, operations, strategy and growth and more. Sectors include consulting, consumer goods and services, defense, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, public and nonprofit, real estate, senior living and technology.
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Our company has been the beneficiary of the Eller innovation culture in both business solutions and relationships with students that has led to some of them joining our company as employees to continue with this critical business/education partnership.
Michael Schneider, Chief Environmental Officer, Sempra Energy
Project Summaries
View Eller Business Consulting Project summaries by industry and sector. Use the industry name to view sectors and project scopes of work:
| Sector | Scope of Work |
|---|---|
| Consumer Goods and Services | Create new sales forecasting model for company’s customer care unit that reduces complexity and increases efficiency and accuracy. |
| Energy | Create an economic model, conduct competitive analysis, analyze ecological impact and refine web-based smart phone interface. |
| Manufacturing | Create a financial model for future relocation and M&A activity based on an analysis of relocation costs, overhead reduction, machinery performance and labor costs associated with a consolidation. |
| Technology | Build a financial model that will help the client better understand the costs associated with software releases and hosting products. |
| Sector | Scope of Work |
|---|---|
| Consumer Goods and Services | Develop a model to track and monitor employee resources related to strategic projects based upon best practices for optimizing workforce performance. Create a change management plan to most effectively communicate the model’s benefit to the employee base. |
| Healthcare | Create a comprehensive Healthcare Workforce Retention Plan to include key satisfaction drivers among current and past associates. Develop best practice summary complete with recommendations and steps for implementation. |
| Higher Education | Create a business plan that includes a set of recommendations for addressing future strategy to achieve sustainable revenue and operational efficiency. |
| Technology | Develop CIO-level (POV) whitepaper and structured framework reflecting the key CIO considerations for planning and executing a set of organizational activities across a number of IT domains in preparation for a carve out, spin-off, split-off or divestiture. |
| Sector | Scope of Work |
|---|---|
| Healthcare | Identify best practices landscape for healthcare providers via web and mobile capabilities. |
| Technology | Create model for client’s IT project portfolio prioritization, helping them prioritize IT strategic initiatives based on their unique business needs. |
| Sector | Scope of Work |
|---|---|
| Consulting | Analyze the current statistical methodology used to assess the impact of advertising on consumer purchasing/usage behaviors and brand perception. Provide recommendations to enhance the data analysis and create clearer and more concise reports for clients. |
| Consumer Goods and Services | Gather data and create a customer recruitment plan focused on improving customer service, developing a marketing strategy and improving the quality of the services provided. |
| Consumer Goods and Services | Perform market research on industry utilization of social support channels (social media) to reduce traditional contact support. Identify how companies develop effective social support channels in a free-of-charge software environment. Include metrics utilized by companies to assess effectiveness of social support channels. |
| Consumer Goods and Services | Conduct an in-depth market segmentation review and analysis and provide recommendation to increase the efficiency of defined independent food service operator customer/segment dynamics. |
| Defense | Create a strategic marketing plan for internal and external constituents that identifies commercial small space capabilities. |
| Healthcare | Determine viability of a new product based on market analysis, product costs and revenue sources. |
| Healthcare | Create a social media strategy (in alignment with client communications strategy) that incorporates technology, value proposition/ROI, look and feel, infrastructure needs and a global launch strategy. |
| Healthcare | Develop a comprehensive social media strategy for client that supports current brand initiatives and focuses on patient education. The strategy will enable the client to more effectively interface with patients and the medical community to enhance its brand presence and increase patient satisfaction. |
| Healthcare IT | Determine the market needs for services in the laboratory and diagnostic software space. |
| Municipality | Perform market research to determine overall branding effectiveness and service satisfaction for fire district residents. |
| Technology | Develop a business proposal outlining a market strategy for data enrichment services. |
| Telecommunications | Identify market segment with high potential for client products; within the market segment, identify market size, competitors, barriers to entry and client’s differentiators. |
| Sector | Scope of Work |
|---|---|
| Healthcare IT | Assess client-customer contract addendum process and provide recommendations to reduce timeframe from customer purchase to contract addendum. Final deliverable is creation of a streamlined process. |
| Manufacturing | Provide an overview of current global manufacturing strategy and analyze and propose an improved strategy for two manufacturing locations. |
| Senior Living, Real Estate | Provide recommendations regarding the control versus autonomy balance between client’s corporate headquarters and outlying facilities within five specific underperforming company processes. |
| Sector | Scope of Work |
|---|---|
| Consumer Goods and Services | Develop a business plan for a new product launch under an existing brand, which includes recommendations for product positioning, package structuring, sizing, pricing strategy, distributing/shelving and key marketing mix elements. |
| Defense | Develop a model that assesses the optimal support service delivery method for services in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia with the intent to apply the model in adjacent geographic regions. |
| Energy | Develop a statistical time-to-failure analysis of data on the operations of the charging pumps that can be used to make predictions about the life span of equipment, its reliability and probability of failure in different time periods. The data can then be used to compare the costs of different schedules for preventive maintenance and repair. |
| Healthcare | Analyze client internal, state and national healthcare data to identify insights from the data. Conduct industry analysis and track current developments in the healthcare policy. |
| Healthcare | Develop a data-driven business case for recommended surgical service lines and major regional operating room expansions by analyzing the market for international patients seeking sophisticated surgical procedures. |
| Manufacturing | Conduct a market environment analysis study on the trends/opportunities of the energy storage market within the telecommunications sector, identifying potential growth and potential competitor profiles. |
| Technology | Perform analysis of competitor search capabilities and methodologies to identify client opportunities; formulate and prioritize key strategies for client implementation. |
| Technology | Create a sales forecasting model to predict inorganic growth for the medium business segment across two regions. |