CBA Capstone Projects

What is Capstone Project?

 A platform for students to apply their classroom learning to real
business problems and leverage the power of data to provide valuable
insights

 Salient Features:
• The organization will provide the problem definition and a sample data
• Teams of students will bid for 3 projects stating their proposed approach
and methodology
• Commitment of time by student team (of 3 to 4 members) is about
400 to 500 man-hours across 3 months
• Student teams maintain regular client interaction/ reporting
• Two formal reviews are held by the client, faculty and the CBA program
management all of which contribute to the grades allotted to the team
• Final deliverables from the students will be a report based on the
analysis of a suitably developed model
Capstone Process

Matching
Projects • Project charter
• Mid review
• Cover letter • Expression of • Final review by
• Project Description Interest project sponsor,
form • List 1st, 2nd, 3rd faculty mentor, and
• ISB NDA choices CBA program
• Company selects • Project report,
the final team presentation
Obtaining • NDA sign-off
Projects
Project
Execution

Nov 2017 to Jan 2018 Feb to Apr 2018

Important Points
 ISB NDA must be signed as is.
 Suggest masking of data, creating simulated data sets for protection
of data.
 ISB can provide secure online server, if required, where the client
can upload the data and no one else can copy/download it. All analysis
and reports would be done on the server.
 Prof.Bhim & Hemanth will be the main point of contact so please
direct all queries to them.
 Obtaining & Matching Milestones:
• Project Description Submission – December 15, 2017
• Expression of Interest – January 7, 2018
• Final Team Selection – January 15, 2018
• NDA sign off – January 31, 2018
 Project Execution:
• Project Charter – February 11, 2018
• Mid project review – March 17 - 18, 2018
• Final report submission – May 6, 2018
• Project presentation – May 12-13, 2018