We have listed potential project ideas that teams may successfully complete through SkillShare.
Finance
- Analysis of expenses
- Development of dashboard and other financial and management reports
- Planning (long/short-term)
- Budgeting
- Cash planning (e.g. cash flow forecasting and control)
- Developing effective financial management controls, risk management, and other policies
- Cost/Benefit analysis
Operations
- Inventory management
- Purchasing and supply chain audit
- Quality improvement
- Facilities management plan
- Safety planning
- Emergency readiness
- Work-flow improvement
- Enterprise risk management (i.e. create a plan to minimize and then mitigate a possible risk to reputation, finances/facility, or people)
Business Planning
- Market research
- Budget development
- Benchmarking
- Model development
- Customer research
Human Resources
- Employee wellness plans
- Job description revisions
- Employee handbook development
- Policy updates and development
- Performance management system
- Competency mapping
- Recruitment and retention strategies
Information Technology
- Network audit
- Phone systems audit
- Network security assessment
- Install and configure networking equipment (e.g. routers, backup devices, modems)
- Hardware/Software audit
- Set up and configure new computers, install software
- Assess donated PCs to determine usefulness
- Create inventory of computer equipment
- Troubleshoot PCs or laptops
- Create inventory of software
- Software training (i.e. one-on-one or small group, depending on lab availability)
- Website audit
- Security analysis
- Build new queries and reports in an Access database; train staff; increase user-friendliness
- CRM systems
- Salesforce database
Marketing and Communications (limited opportunities available)
- Public relations planning
- Market research or benchmarking
- Marketing assessment
- Social media plan and training
- Branding and positioning
- Online marketing strategy
