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CAPS 697: Consultancy Project is the culminating applied experience of your MBA program. In this capstone course, you will work on a real-world business project, integrating knowledge gained across your MBA studies to address a strategic challenge for an organization. CAPS 697 emphasizes applied problem-solving, strategic analysis, and professional communication, and it focuses on delivering actionable value to organizational stakeholders.

Week 1

Nikolova, N., & Devinney, T. (2012). The nature of client–consultant interaction: A critical review. In T. Clark & M. Kipping (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting (pp. 389–409). Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235049.013.0019

Week 2

Sigcha, E., Martinez-Moscoso, A., Siguenza-Guzman, L., & Jadan, D. (2021). PESTEL analysis as a baseline to support decision-making in the local textile industry. In M. Botto-Tobar, W. Zamora, J. Larrea Plúa, J. Bazurto Roldan, & A. Santamaría Philco (Eds.), Systems and information sciences: Proceedings of ICCIS 2020 (Vol. 1273, pp. 144–156). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59194-6_13

Week 3

Kilmann, R. H., & Mitroff, I. I. (1979, April). Problem defining and the consulting/intervention process. California Management Review, 21(3), 26-33. https://doi.org/10.2307/41165304

Week 4

Johnston, M. P. (2014). Secondary data analysis: A method of which the time has come. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, 3(3), 619–626. https://www.qqml-journal.net/index.php/qqml/article/view/169

Week 5

Schwarz, M., & Clark, T. (2009). Clients’ different moves in managing the client–consultant relationship. In A. Buono & F. Poulfelt (Eds.), Client–consultant collaboration: Coping with complexity and change (pp. 3–28). Information Age Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-60752-259-1

Week 6

Devlin, G. (1989). The effective development and evaluation of strategic options. European Management Journal, 7(1), 97–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/0263-2373(89)90149-7

Week 7

Kamel, D. (2025, July 11). The triple Rs framework of consulting: Research, recommendations, rational how to judge whether a consultant’s advice is worth following. SSRN. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5347754

Week 8

Tawse, A., & Tabesh, P. (2021). Strategy implementation: A review and an introductory framework. European Management Journal, 39(1), 22–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2020.09.005

Week 9

Ziegele, D., Siegel, C., & Zerfass, A. (2025). Does quality matter? Understanding quality of communication consulting from a client and consultant perspective. Public Relations Review, 51(2), 102563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2025.102563

Week 10

Bourgoin, A.l, & Harvey, J. -F. (2018, July 27). How consultants project expertise and learn at the same time. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2018/07/how-consultants-project-expertise-and-learn-at-the-same-time