Fall 2024 Simon Vision Consulting Program Update
The Rochester Professional Consultants Network’s (RPCN) program of providing mentors to the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business (Simon) Simon Vision Consulting Program (Simon Vision) is rolling once again as we provide mentors for a fourteenth consecutive semester.
For those of you that regularly read this column, you already know about Simon Vision and what a great opportunity it is. For those of you that are unfamiliar with Simon Vision, the program is an effort to increase experiential learning opportunities for Simon’s MBA and MS students.
There are sixteen projects serving fourteen clients. This semester the clients include traditional for-profit businesses, local not for profits, and the public sector (i.e. local government). We have twelve mentors helping the project teams out with four of our mentors doing “double duty” with more than one project. Thank you to all the mentors and especially those helping with more than one project team. The projects will run through early December and then we’ll get to find out how the project teams did as they present their results at the Simon Vision Showcase.
Though the clients, projects, teams, and mentors are set for this current semester; it is never too early to be looking for projects and mentors for the next semester.
Mentors
We’re already looking for mentors for the upcoming Spring semester. There will be 12 - 16 projects in total. We would like to have at least that many mentors to help.
- The mentors meet in person or virtually with their project manager and/or team anywhere from once per week to once per month depending upon the needs of the team and the project.
- How often and when you meet is a decision between you and the student project manager.
- It’s fun to work with the students and you might even find yourself learning some new things.
- If you’d like to become a mentor, please contact me at the information shown at the end of this article.
Projects
Simon Vision is also looking for new projects for the Spring semester.
- If you, a client, or an associate have an outsourceable project that could be completed in about 8 – 10 weeks, send an application to Simon Vision to get it included in the Spring 2025 semester.
- Projects are evaluated by the Simon Vision student governing board, and the leadership of Simon Vision will help you define the project requirements to be completed within these constraints.
Contact Information
If you are interested in having an SVC Project Team perform work for you, would like more information about the program, or especially if you’d like to volunteer to be an RPCN member mentor to a student team, please contact Dave Bassett at dbassett@basstat.com.
—Dave Bassett
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