Applied Doctoral Project (ADP)

Indiana Wesleyan University
Marion, Indiana, United States
Dr. Daniel Nguyen
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Timeline
  • February 6, 2023
    Experience start
  • July 4, 2023
    Project Scope Meeting
  • December 31, 2023
    Experience end
Experience
1 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
United States
Startup, Small to medium enterprise, Family-Owned
Technology, It & computing, Business & management

Experience scope

Categories
Information technology Machine learning Marketing strategy
Skills
digital marketing competitive analysis data analytics business strategy
Learner goals and capabilities

The Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) program at IWU allows students to demonstrate their mastery in solving real-world business problems through an Applied Doctoral Project (ADP). While a dissertation is the capstone of a research-based Ph.D. program, the ADP serves as a capstone for the IWU DBA. The distinction of the ADP is that students integrate evidence-based scholarly research in a consultative manner aimed at identifying a significant problem, formulating a solution, and presenting a proposal to a real organization.

  • The ADP Experience employs a problem-based learning framework to guide the researcher-consultant process that is beneficial for professional practice as a consultant, practitioner, or scholar.
  • Students are also uniquely advantaged when assigned a research chair who serves as their mentor and coach—from start to finish in the program—to ensure the project meets the rigorous standards worthy of a terminal degree in business.

Learners

Learners
PhD
Any level
3 learners
Project
40 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Individual projects
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The Applied Doctoral Project (ADP) is your opportunity to engage, over the next 1 to 1 ½ years, advanced professional students who are:

  • Forward-thinking, virtuous business leaders
  • Passionate and skilled in creating ethical solutions to complex business problems
  • Capable of synthesizing and integrating research in education, consulting, and business leadership in areas spanning management, accounting, healthcare administration, and information systems

Organizations who participate in this doctoral study will get a doctoral-level consultant who has been studying problem-solving. This student averages around 44 years of age and has a minimum of 5 years of managerial experience.

Deliverables may include

  • This student will act as a consultant to help you solve a significant organizational issue.
  • This study will deliver a report that summarizes what is known about the problem at the beginning of the project, a detailed study of both academic and industry sources on the problem, a model of the problem, several potential solutions to the problem, the results of their research studying alternative solutions to the problem, and a recommended solution with a high-level change proposal plan that will describe the implementation of the change proposal.
  • Finally, the student will supply an assessment and reflection that discusses what was learned and recommendations for further study.
  • From the time the student begins to work with you, the project should last 1 – 1 ½ years.
  • We are committed to ensuring privacy and anonymity throughout the duration of the project for all participants in the project.
Project timeline
  • February 6, 2023
    Experience start
  • July 4, 2023
    Project Scope Meeting
  • December 31, 2023
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Example projects currently in the works:

  • Working with a government agency to improve its ability to hire diverse and minority employees (management).
  • Developing a new approach to integrating activity-based accounting across multiple global currencies (accounting).
  • Providing a healthcare supplier with a system that schedules limited resources more efficiently (healthcare management).
  • Developing applications for mobile devices that duplicate services provided through PCs (information technology management).

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

A representative of the company will be available for a pre-selection discussion with the administrator of the course to review the project scope.

A representative of the company will be available to answer questions from students in a timely manner for the duration of the project.