INTEGRATIVE APPLIED PROJECT - 2025/6

Module Overview

The Integrative Applied Project (IAP) is a 30 credit capstone project, requiring students to demonstrate their ability to integrate the knowledge and skills acquired during the entire programme to practice in a holistic way. Students choose one of the three options below:

• Business Plan – Students may want to start their own business and this project can be the first step on that journey. The business plan will have to be detailed and actionable and will be judged on how compelling a case it makes for viability and / or investment.


• Consultancy Project – Students may prefer to work on a live business problem with a real company.  The consultancy outcomes must be actionable by the client and will be judged on the added value that the customer receives from the project. The client can be corporate, public or third sector;


• Management Research Project – Students may choose to focus on a wider practical or theoretical issue in a specific industry, investigating the research problem via the examination and application of theoretical frameworks and concepts.

Module provider

Surrey Business School

Module Leader

MAHON Christopher (SBS)

Number of Credits: 30

ECTS Credits: 15

Framework: FHEQ Level 7

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Semester 2

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

None

Module content

The Integrative Applied Project is not a taught module, but rather an independent project.

Indicative content includes:

• Methodology and methods


• Management evaluation techniques


• Scenario analysis


• Client added value

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

n/a

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to apply knowledge and skills developed during the MBA to real scenarios

Summative assessment 

The Integrative Applied Project assesses the student's ability to integrate and apply multi-disciplinary content to real world scenarios.

Formative assessment

There is an ongoing process of formative assessment through the one-to-one interactions between student and supervisor.

Feedback

There is an ongoing process of feedback through the one-to-one interactions between student and supervisor.

Module aims

• to address real problems and propose valuable, actionable solutions
• to identify opportunities for corporate, public or third sector organisations and present them in an actionable and compelling way
• to integrate learning and content from across the entire MBA programme in pursuit of a specific objective

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy for the Integrative Applied Project is designed to encourage students to think critically and independently about their role as providers of solutions or enablers of opportunities for stakeholders in the corporate, public or third sectors.. The University’s virtual learning environment (SurreyLearn) will be used to support student learning by providing them with, alongside teaching materials, formative materials and additional resources and links to useful websites. The teaching and learning strategy for the project component is designed to allow the students to take responsibility for their own learning and progress, supported by individual supervision during which students will be able to explain, discuss and refine their particular ideas (including organisation specific research problems) with their supervisor through regular supervision.

The Integrative Applied Project is not a taught module, but rather a supervised independent capstone project.  Learning and teaching methods include:

1.    Compulsory 2 day IAP Sprint sessions designed to prepare students for the research element as well as introduce students to the three IAP options.

2.    One-on-one supervision





 

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
Upon accessing the reading list, please search for the module using the module code: MANM363

Other information

Programmes this module appears in

Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2025/6 academic year.