Student Works On Downtown Project
By 250 News
Friday, March 17, 2006 04:45 PM
It is a question Downtown Prince George would like to have answered:
Would a Business Consulting Centre in the downtown run by UNBC business students be a good idea?
UNBC Master of Business Administration student, Ray Noonan, hopes to find the answer in the completed surveys he distributed earlier this onth. He is collecting up the survey that posed that very question when it was distributed earlier this month to business people throughout the City.
He is basing the consulting centre idea on a similar model that is working in Montreal through Concordia University. The Centre could offer services such as market research, business plans, feasibility studies, business analysis, operations management, accounting and finance, and information technology, to small and medium sized businesses. The Centre would be run by a team of business students, with supervision from UNBC faculty, who could help local businesses develop their ideas to make their businesses successful.
“We were looking for a way to provide a bridge between the university business program and the business community,” says Janet Morris-Reade, DPG Executive Director. “Creating a UNBC business presence in the business centre of Prince George – the downtown – seems like a perfect fit,” she adds. If the survey indicates there is an appetite for such a centre, there would still need to be a business plan developed before that next step could be taken.
The deadline for filling out a survey has just passed (4:30 Friday the 17th) and Morris -Reade says the final report should be ready around the end of the month.
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