Development of a New Model for Design and Implementation of Comprehensive
Capstone Project Courses in Executive Management Education

R. Jayaraman

Development of a New Model for Design and Implementation of Comprehensive Capstone Project Courses in Executive Management Education

R. Jayaraman

SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India

Volume 19: 2024, pp. 227-244; ABSTRACT

Capstone Projects (CP) have been used in executive MBA (EMBA) to meet with industry expectations. In this paper, a new theoretical framework for administering CCP, which is a Comprehensive CP, called the “CCP Way”, has been developed and validated in a course in a reputed B School in India. The framework has been in use for seven years, and has worked successfully in meeting three of its four objectives. These objectives are: planning, processing, practising. In the fourth objective, consisting of results and “spread the culture of CCP”, the first one has been achieved. This is the first such framework which has used the “Deming Cycle” (Plan Do Check Act – PDCA) as its basis. A new concept of “EMBA Universe” and the “EMBA-Industry Connect Triple Helix” have also been proposed.
Keywords: Comprehensive Capstone Project, Plan-Do-Check-Act, framework.

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