Company Consultancy Projects
# what is a company consultancy project?
Our Company Consultancy Projects (CCP) put classroom knowledge into practice.
The CCPs at ESCP Berlin are an opportunity for companies and organisations to receive new solutions by advanced graduate and MBA students.
A CCP allows students to apply their skills and gain insights into various industries and fields within a practical environment.
Your company or organisation benefit from lively exchanges with students, their structured research approach, creativity and fresh mindset.
Students use Company Consultancy Projects (CCP) to work content-wise with practitioners on real challenges.
Support
From ESCP Berlin
Clients will be accompanied throughout the entire project cycle by the CCP Project Manager.
Students stay in contact with ESCP staff throughout the project and receive advice in client interaction, group dynamics and content-wise questions.
Outside
Perspective
Clients will get a student team that will tackle their challenge with creativity and a fresh mindset.
Students have the chance to bring in their knowledge and own ideas.
Project-specific
Exchange
For companies and organisations a CCP is a platform on which they can work content-wise with students.
Students broaden their knowledge through a practical experience.
Structured
Research & Approach
Practitioners get the newest insights into academia and higher education from MBA students and graduate students in our Sales, Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Food & Beverage and Strategy & Digital Business programmes.
Students can apply their research skills and problem-solving approaches acquired in their classes to an actual challenge.
Alternative
Recruitment Tool
A CCP is an alternative tool for companies to assess potential employees based on their performance and motivation.
Students hone their skills and have the opportunity to explore professional environments.
# Project Stories
How can the Expert Group lead towards a more sustainable future for people and the planet?
"The ESCP student consulting project gave us a vital outside perspective on our situation in a very short time, which
helped us move forward faster than we would otherwise have been able to."
Jens Stroemnes, Managing Director at Expert Internationals
Help to find suitable channels for Maison Baum to grow outside of performance marketing
"The project provided a valuable outside perspective on Maison Baum‘s current path toward product-market fit.
The students helped us find and evaluate potential new target customers and develop a deep-dive go-to-market strategy for a new segment. Their initiative and creativity prove enriching to work with, and the methodology applied was sound."
Christian Baum, CEO of Maison Baum
How IoT (Internet of Things) can help reduce our carbon footprint in Europe ?
"Great group with a positive mindset and dynamic, that has been able to scope the project and deliver a valuable
model, with everything needed for are use by BearingPoint. Their learning curve was impressive on a topic that was new to them (IoT). Greatwork, congrats!"
Ouassim Driouchi, Senior Manager Telecoms & IoT at Bearing Point
Increase the female rate among MEP positions within the DACH region
"We appreciate the support of the ESCP students, who delivered a very good mix of theoretical background analysis paired with hands-on solutions.The project work of the international ESCP team was highly professional, and we look forward to cooperating again with ESCP on other projects."
Martin Zimmek, Director Integration & Public Affairs Germany at Alstom
Market expansion strategies for European countries
"During the CCP we had the pleasure to work with a team of motivated students to help us work out a detail
ed expansion strategy for Lumaly. The collaboration was not only fun but also resulted in actionable results driven by fresh ideas
from the students."
Felix Raupach, CEO/Founder at Lumaly
Brand and communication strategy for a new corporate start-up
“For the new product category it was very helpful for us to have an external team helping to create the brand strategy to address a new target group for Kärcher. The team was highly motivated, proceeded in a very scientifically structured way and delivered ideas beyond the scope of the assignment.”
Gabriele Straßburger, Investment Manager & Venture Developer at Kärcher New Venture
’My Story’ - A Blockchain powered product transparency solution with focus on origin, sustainability and digital trust - Development of customer journey
“Working with bright people from ESCP with a ‘digital native’ mindset gave us new and valuable insights. The persona and customer journeys gave us useful hints as to what matters when further shaping this solution.”
Sven Edgren, Head of Digital Transformation
Implementation of GRI standards for sustainability reporting
“The project allowed IIC the opportunity to concretely measure it’s performance and commit to future strategies and providing the company with a vessel to communicate its efforts.”
Afsah Alumia-Khan, Senior Manager Sustainability and Compliance at IIC
Create an overview of the market trends for automation in intralogistics
"Thank you for your enthusiasm and willingness to familiarise yourself with our issues, our industry and our challenges in such a short time. The project has brought valuable results not only for the department involved, but also to the entire
company. We are looking forward to a continuous cooperation".
Claudia Scheins, Head of Learning & Development | CorporateHuman Resource at Fiege
Build a reusable framework to analyze direct competitors
"The student team helped us to build a new methodology that allows us to understand better how we could position our service‘s portfolio. In a very dynamic and competitive environment, it is more than ever critical for a company like HP to adapt to a moving context constantly, on the product and services side as well as on the pricing side. We are grateful to the students for initiating the thinking process and proposing a tool to monitor it."
Emmanuel Faisant, Services and Category Manager at HP
Problem assessment and project refinement together with the CCP Project Manager
A team of 4 - 5 advanced graduate and postgraduate students
Two months project work from our student consultants under the guidance of the CCP Project Manager and Academic Advisors
Support throughout the project cycle from CCP Project Manager
Ready-to-use results and recommendations from students consultants
# next steps
Let us know in which field you are currently looking for support. We will help you in defining your project.
End October
Submission of your project brief
October-November
Company pitches, matching & announcement of groups
November-December
Part-time stage: project plan, first tasks
January
Full-time stage: execution of tasks, deliverables
End of Jan
Presentation of final results
# ESCP Berlin Project Support - Academic Advisory
Claudia Müller
Owner and Managing Director at CIM Consulting
ESCP Affiliate Professor since 1999
Key Topics: Intercultural Leadership, Change Management
Susanne Kortendick
Founder & Owner bei Kortendick Solutions
ESCP Affiliate Professor since 2020
Key Topics: Human Resources, Organization Development, Executive Education
Peter Borchers
Founder and Managing Partner at pbo.vc
ESCP U-School Co-Founder, Visiting Professor & Member of the Executive Committee since 2013
Key Topics: New Digital Business Models, Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship
Uli Huener
Innovation Expert |Startup Mentor | Advisor
ESCP Academic Advisor since 2020
Key Topics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing, Leadership
Sebastian Fittko
Founding Partner katapult:now |former co-founder of hub:raum and innogy Hub Berlin
ESCP Academic Advisor since 2019
Key Topics: (digital) Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, Strategic Thinking, Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
Achim Kuttler
EX HP: Vice President EMEA
DHBW: Lecturer
Key Topics: Marketing, Intercultural Competencies, and Leadership
Alice Gumppenberg
Supply Chain Sustainability and Human Rights Expert at Accenture
ESCP EMBA Graduate 2020, ESCP MBA Board Member and Academic Advisor
Key Topics: Sustainability Strategy and Reporting, Supply Chain Due Diligence, Human Rights
# Sign up
To submit your project idea, reach out to our CCP Project Manager. Together we will assess your current challenges and help you refine your project.
