Upper-year student teams from Queen’s School of Business under the auspices of Queen's Business Consulting Group (QBC) are providing consulting services for 15 CFDC-selected clients over the three year granting period.

Your business could be one of them.  Already, the KIS project has helped several rural Eastern Ontario businesses and organizations including:

• Algonquin Timber Frames, Deep River: Analyzed this small business' processes to help maximize profitability and develop new revenue streams.
• Enchanted Woods Fine Furniture, Madoc: Developed streamlined operations processes and marketing strategies for this custom furniture builder.
  
• Haliburton County Tourism, Haliburton: Created a framework for the County to assess and analyze the impact of tourism on the local economy.
  
• Hastings County Movie Theatre Feasibility Study, Bancroft: Developed a feasibility study and business plan to attract potential investors to develop a new movie theatre.
• Hastings County Brewery Plan: Assessed local capacity for a microbrewery cluster to attract potential investors to the region. Download the study!
  
• Holiday Manor Fishing Lodge, Battersea: Helped this tourism-based business identify a new target market and recommended a complementary marketing mix.
• Levac Apiaries/Glengarry Beehive, Green Valley: Developed new marketing strategies for this innovative farm and retailer.
• Limerick Lake Lodge, Gilmour: Developed a marketing plan for this tourism business.
  
• Perth Downtown Revitalization Committee, Perth: Worked with this town group to identify gaps in their downtown commercial area and recommend businesses to target in recruitment promotions.
• Wolfe Island Community Rink, Marysville:  Developed a business plan for converting an outdoor community ice rink into a year-round indoor facility.
  

Queen's Business Consulting is Canada's top undergraduate consulting program. In operation for over 30 years, QBC is a year-round venture managed by senior undergraduate commerce students under the direction of the Queen's School of Business faculty.

QBC provides a range of cost-effective consulting services to owners, managers and staff of small and medium-sized businesses as well as professionals from not-for-profit and public organizations.  They are dedicated to providing high-value and high-impact advice in the areas such as marketing, finance, accounting, Internet commerce, information systems, production management, and market research.

Since 1973, QBC has worked with over 300 different business and public organizations and completed over 650 successful consulting projects. What started as an MBA course in 1973 is now a successful year-round undergraduate program preparing students for careers in consulting. During the fall and winter academic terms, the program is run as a course (COMM 404) through Queen's School of Business and student consultants receive a credit for the consulting services they offer. From May through to the end of August, the summer consulting team is hired as remunerated staff working with the program director.

Typical projects result in changes such as improving productivity, enhancing morale, reducing expenses, boosting cash flows, augmenting Internet and e-marketing resources, implementing marketing research, identifying new sources of revenues, increasing client retention, and/or strengthening brand awareness for the organization or its products and services.

For more information, download a copy of the Consulting Projects Flyer (Français), or contact Us or your local CFDC.