Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations: Project Presentation for CanBrIdge

1. CanBr dge
CanBrIdge: Bridging students to the their future.
Hanan Alowain, Sylvia Tang, Adil Zaid,
Thu Luu, Swati Maheshwari
May 2013

2. THE PROBLEM
 Students (globally) of ages in middle to high school (7th-11th
grade) are unaware of the importance of career selection and
development. Our program, CanBrIdge, hopes to bridge the gaps
between school (formal education) and what it is like in industry.
Through our program, we hope to have a direct impact on the
students’ future careers through fostering mentorships with
individuals in industry.

3. STEPS
Constraints  Implementation
Time Resources
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Companies
Students
Success?!
Ideas?!

4. CONSTRAINTS
Time-Technical,
Organizational-Resources,
Industry-Labor Mobility &
Group-Environment & Emotion.

5. CONSTRAINT #1
 Time (technical) Constraint- In being a non-profit organization, we
have limited resources and our small staff has to cover many
positions and items within the organization to ensure it operates
as closely as possible according to plan.
 Solution:
 Ask teachers to volunteer to be staff members on our teams to start out…
essentially, we asked for volunteers to see who was interested in assisting.

6. CONSTRAINT #2
 Resources (organizational) Constraint- Being a non-profit
program relying on corporate and volunteer support, we may not
have enough mentors (resources) for all the students in our
program.
 Solution:
 Survey & ask people in industry to see if they had the time or would be able to
volunteer to become mentors to students.

7. CONSTRAINT #3
 Labor Mobility (industry) Constraint Getting people from industry
to teach/mentor students in non-developed areas could be difficult
to implement.
 Solution:
 Start out in developed areas and then slowly move towards non-develop
areas once we have enough students and mentors interested..

8. CONSTRAINT #4
 Environment & Emotion (group) Constraint- Students may not be
able to quickly adapt to the changes in industry and end up
feeling uncomfortable following their mentor around in the industry
and the work environment.
 Solution:
 Allow open-minded students to take the first steps and get feedback on what
they liked and disliked about visiting industry before we let the more reserved
students attend work environments.

9. IMPLEMENTATION