APS1013 Applying Innovation: Working with External Industrial Companies

APS1013 Applying Innovation: Working with External Industrial Companies

Applying Innovation is delivered in collaboration with external industry partners across many industry sectors.  It has been designed to develop practical management skills that can be applied in the workplace immediately.  Its purpose is to accelerate career advancement.   It has been designed for those who desire a career path leading to a role as a corporate change agent such as CEO, COO, Senior VP’s, C-Level Certified Management Consultants, or as entrepreneurs.  It will teach students the application of the tools and techniques of innovation management including; strategic and systems thinking, business process analysis, creativity and problem solving, solution design & implementation, effective organizational teamwork and project management. This seminar style course aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills to apply the tools of creativity and innovation to solve a real world technological business problem. Applying innovation will enable students in a team approach to actually use the tools in the class and on an industrial project either at their employer or an external enterprise. This course will also incorporate academic scholarly papers that will build on the readings in the Management of Business Innovation, and transformational Change APS1012 course. In addition the instructor will provide coaching based on many years of hands on practical experience solving technological problems in a variety of industry sectors. Though not mandatory it would be ideal if students have completed the course APS1012 – Management of Innovation that provides students with a conceptual understanding of the broad field of strategic innovation.  Here are past student team research projects:

• Fall 2010
  1. Town of Newmarket – Water Tower Infrastructure Sharing Program
  2. Del Equipment Trucks – Operations Innovation Project
  3. Hatch Associates – An Investigation into Reducing the Energy Costs for a New Build 200MW Nickel Smelter in Halmahera, Indonesia
  4. Hatch Associates – Way Forward for Sustainability of Mining Business in Developing Nations

• Winter 2012
  1. Samco Machinery and Solar – Development of Global Growth Strategies
  2. Infonaut – Development of Business and Product Strategy for a Hospital Sterilization Tracking System
  3. Clear Blue Technologies – Development of Business and Product Strategy for Solar Street Lights
  4. Bordin Racer – Development of a Business and Product Strategy for an Anti-pollution Door Strip

• Winter 2013
  1. Butterfly Energetics – Assessed the Major Government Policy Regulating the Renewable Energy Market
  2. Samco Machinery- Development of a Programme Management Office (PMO)
  3. Good Robot – Development of a Business Direction for a Home Monitoring System for Senior Citizens
  4. Fleetmetrica – Assessing the Efficacy of a Metrics-based Transport Vehicle fleet Safety Solution
  5. Solarship – Aircraft Manufacture Start up – Implement ISO 9000 Certification Readiness Capability

• Fall 2014
  1. Messier-Buggati-Dowty – Build to Spec Process Optimization
  2. Pratt & Whitney Canada – Effective and Optimized Technology Portfolio Management
  3. Hatch Associates – Improving the Business Development Information Infrastructure
  4. Triumph Group – A Quantitative, Feature-based, Risk Management Approach for New Product Development
  5. Siemens – Improving the Quality Management Culture

• Winter 2016
  1. Siemens – Optimizing the Supply Chain for the Building Technologies Division
  2. Messier-Dowty-Bugatti – Identification and Communication of Risks at the Product Development Phase: 17 Steps Innovation Approach
  3. Celestica – Strategic Management and Design Considerations for the Factory of the Future
  4. Triumph – Improving the Manufacturing Cycle time in the Production of Jet Engine Shafts
  5. Relish – Developing a Business Transformation and Directional Plan Strategy

• Winter 2017
  1. Samco Machinery – Implementing a Performance Measurement System
  2. Siemens – Carbon Tax Project and Preparing for Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD)
  3. Fibos – Determining Market Potential and Strategy for Fiber-Optic Sensors.
  4. Safran (Messier Dowty-Bugatti) – Developing a Supplier Management Simulation
  5. Crystal Fountains – Analysis and evaluation of the investment measures and innovation performance
  6. Triumph – Improving Shop Floor Control and Labor Reporting

• Winter 2018
  1. Bombardier Aerospace 1 – Improving Inventory Optimization in the Q400 aircraft programme (obsolescence, order policy, forecasting)
  2. Bombardier Aerospace 2 – Improving Methods engineering- Aircraft Modifications design / build Process
  3. Pratt & Whitney – Fostering employee engagement in Innovation – solve the problem of poor response rate in submission of innovative ideas
  4. Samco Machinery – Reduce throughput time by eliminating the papers/unnecessary process steps between M6 (Design Verification) and M7 (Release to Production Control).
  5. Fibos – Developing a Marketing Approach to enter into the turbine industry in power and aerospace sectors
  6. Crystal Fountains –Developing a formalized innovation management process

• Fall 2019
  1. Samco Machinery- Leveraging Samco Machinery’s Core Competencies
  2. Crystal Fountains – review and develop strategies to alleviate current lags in its new product development process
  3. Schneider Electric – Micro Grid Brand Recognition Project
  4. Proxima – Startup in the creation of an escape room – starship simulator
  5. JMR Plastics – Feasibility analysis of plastic pallet business

• Fall 2020
  1. Samco Machinery – Rethinking the Sales Management Process-Identifying countries, sectors for Samco to expand and ways to communicate sales remotely. 
  2. Crystal Fountains – Transitioning to a customer centric organization
  3. Proxima Command – Identify requirements to acquire funding for STEM education program using their “starship simulator” set-up

• Fall 2021
  1. Samco Machinery – Developing the R&D Management Capability
  2. Crystal Fountains – Developing a Management Decision-making Model Generation
  3. Proxima Command –Advancing the Business and developing a Forward Planning Model for Proxima Command’s Initial Public Offering
  4. JMR Plastics – Reducing Environmental Plastic Pellet Runoff, in the Injection Molding Industry
  5. Schneider Electric -Developing voice of the customer on Schneider electrics digital services and competitor analysis
  6. Colliers Engineering & Design Firm– Expanding into new market sectors

• Fall 2022 (100% Online – Full Semester)

1. Samco Machinery –  Improving the Product Development Process
2. Schneider Electric –  Competitive Analysis of Internet of Things and Production Maintenance 
3. Colliers Project Leaders – Expanding engineering services within the growing climate resilience market sector  
4. Georgian Bay Community – Trans Canada Energy – Hydro-Pump Proposal in Georgian bay

• Fall 2023 (100% INCLASS Full Semester)

1. Guidehouse Consulting – Guidehouse: Understanding Carbon Capture in the US Market
2. Guidehouse Consulting – Decarbonizing Industrial Operations in Ontario
3. Samco Machinery – Developing an automated Shop Package Management System
4. Samco Machinery – Assessing AI Applications in the Enterprise Business Process to Enhance Efficiencies and Productivity