Despite some twists and turns, Team Kopri – Smart City was able to successfully deliver our (almost) final recommendations to Viva Group on Friday, May 29th. If there was one thing we learned throughout the course of our trip and especially that last day, it was that doing business in another country, culture and style…
Over these past few months, Team Mobile Strategy has been working diligently to provide Jin Jiang with recommendations regarding its mobile application strategy. Our team learned several lessons after working in-country and delivering the final presentation. Expectations evolve. Up until the last week before delivering our final presentation, we received new information from the client…
Swedes don’t have laundry mats. Before CAP, I took a little time to backpack around northern Europe, seeing Holland and Denmark. Beautiful places at a beautiful time of year, but the result was showing up for CAP with a rucksack full of dirty shirts, socks, and pants that are likely to stand up and run…
So it is finally over. This wonderful experience of Turkish business and culture ended with our final presentations and a great tour of Bosphorus. First the presentations, the hard work of a full semester came to an end with a conference room presentation of each of our projects. The first day was the Risk Management…
The last evening of the trip had us ready for a farewell dinner in a private boat along the Bosphorus. A fitting end to a 2 week program that far exceeded our expectations! While everyone had heard about the interesting geographic location of Istanbul, most of us were unprepared for the cultural and economic stature of…
The final day came. We faced obstacles in our journey, and had to work hard to get here. Our project, which initially was modeling crop productivity in Rwanda, had a big shift in scope. One of our biggest worries was being able to deliver a valuable product to our client. We wanted to make sure…
From the perspective of Zohair Hassan: Traveling to China I was apprehensive of the challenges our team would face communicating due to the language barrier. This bias was partly enforced due to challenging interactions with the client when we were in DC. This led to a question in my head (an ignorant one); as I…
While lots of hard work took place during the week, we also had time to enjoy Rwanda, and the beautiful sceneries it has to offer. Our destination for the weekend was Akagera National Park, a three hour drive from Kigali. Early on Saturday morning we were introduced to our guides, and began our trip to…
We made it!! That was the overwhelming sentiment as the group sat down for one last dinner together at the close of our program just days ago. Final presentations were done, clients were pleased, and it was almost time for us to leave this great country. It was only fitting that we would have traditional African/French…
After almost 24 hours of travel, we are finally all back in D.C. and getting ready to embark on our summer internships. What a whirlwind the last 3 weeks have been; from traveling to meet clients to spontaneous hikes in our business suits to being chased by elephants, CAP Rwanda 2015 was a pretty incredible…
As CAP (Consulting Abroad Project) Sweden participants, we had the opportunity to engage in projects that truly entail experiential learning. Team Envac was involved with the client right at the beginning, scoping-out the required work, until the end, presenting the results of the consulting engagement. While each team member had a set of professional skills different…
Walking back to our seats after answering the last of the questions from the expert judges, Team MRT started to think about how we’ve gotten to this point. Since learning of our project, the team has been in full on new experience mode. With little clean energy or consulting experience, we felt slightly overwhelmed, but…
These past 12 days have been transformative. For most of us this was a first trip to the East African Countries, for all of us it was a first trip to Rwanda. The country was so beautiful, from east to west, and we all learned so much about business, agriculture, Rwanda and ourselves. For me,…
So finally after 5 months of intense team work, Skype meetings with the client and market research the project teams submitted their final reports and presentations to the companies. We were all excited to get this opportunity to interact with the corporate clients on a face to face basis and present them our analysis of…
After the very positive feedback received from the meeting with Trued at Malmö, Team is extremely excited to finally visit Scypho’s entire team at its home office in Stockholm. Scypho’s headquarter is centrally located in Stockholm, only one metro stop away from where we stay. Charlotta welcomed each of us with a warm hug as…
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