Innovative Projects Realized

Prompt

Le projet ENCQOR (Évolution des services en nuage dans le corridor Québec-Ontario pour la recherche et l’innovation) consiste en un partenariat transformateur entre le Canada, le Québec et l’Ontario axé sur la recherche et l’innovation dans le secteur des technologies de rupture 5G ainsi que sur leur appropriation. Le projet ENCQOR met en place le premier corridor pré-commercial d’infrastructure numérique de télécommunications sans fils à large bande 5G au pays. C’est une clé essentielle pour faire de l’économie numérique une réalité.

JanAlta Internship

I have been offered an intership at Janalta as Business Development Consultant with following roles and responsibilities.
Refine inside sales strategy and system, including email outreach, follow up communications from non-responders, passing on meetings to Partnerships Manager.
o Research unique business categories and other market opportunities that could appeal to JanAlta audience
o Think of creative new ways to reach out to unresponsive verticals
o A/B testing outreach methods
• Optimize various areas of direct sales
• Identify new inbound sales strategies
• Audit and improve of JanAlta sales processes
• Research unique, high impact networking opportunities
• Audit and optimize 2021 pricing for all products and sites
• Sales communication across all channels
• Research and identify customer segments for each site

Golf Avenue

La mission première de la stagiaire sera de déterminer le degré d’opportunité pour lancer de nouveaux segments d’activités pour l’entreprise, mais aussi, identifier les meilleurs endroits, dans le monde, ou lancer ces activités.
Plusieurs options ont été identifiées par l’entreprise. Maintenant, il faut analyser chacune de ces options, quantifier leur potentiel (basée sur l’analyse de marché, la concurrence, la réceptivité de la population, etc.) et prioriser les prochains déploiements.
De plus, les segments existants, et notamment le vélo, ont un très fort potentiel de pénétration dans d’autres marchés mondiaux. Mais, lesquels ? quels sont nos compétiteurs ? le potentiel ? etc.
Voici toutes les questions auxquelles la stagiaire pourra aider.

UNBGSA Business Strategy Internship

The Mitacs Business Strategy Internship program enabled UNB Graduate Student Association, a non-profit representing over 1500 graduate students to develop new business strategies for responding to challenges affecting its retail operations due to significant changes in revenue and marketing situations as a result of the pandemic crisis. The project assisted in developing business models, marketing strategy, and customer experience strategy that would increase revenue while operating with restrictions imposed by public health authorities in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

CP Business Solutions Inc. Strategy Internship

CP Business Solutions Inc. is a privately held, female-founded, Canadian company dedicated to delivering marketing solutions. The company has clients primarily in Ontario and Nunavut. While COVID-19 has impacted the volume and type of project work at CP Business Solutions Inc., the company has adapted well and pursed several new lines of business, identified a novel business opportunity, and is transitioning to focus on larger client projects. The company is weathering the challenges of COVID-19 and has opportunities for growth.

Three main projects have been identified to support the learning goals of the program and contribute to the growth of CP Business Solutions Inc.:
1. Corporate Social Responsibility: this project involves researching, writing and publishing a Corporate Social Responsibility Plan for CP Business Solutions and additional effort in this field for their clients.
2. Market Research for KleenShield Solutions Inc.: This project involves conducting market analysis and industry research for a newly incorporated company. The research presented may support decision-making and market entry opportunities.
3. Financial Planning: This project involves providing budget projections and creating other reports and visualization tools to support company decision-making. This will also involve business opportunity exploration and new market entry.

Foodiepages Mitacs BSI Submission

Foodiepages is an online gift delivery business that works with Canada’s best food makers, bakers and chefs to create modern and locally-focused gift boxes. The business has been focused on growing in the personal gifting segment. They are looking for strategic consultation in the identification, analysis and strategy development of new growth areas within the corporate gifting segment.

Union française de Montréal

Le projet va avoir pour objectif d’accompagner l’organisation dans son processus de renouveau stratégique, de la planification de la stratégie jusqu’à sa mise en œuvre.

Devhaus Content Marketing Internship

The project involves researching and developing a marketing strategy that will assist Devhaus in keeping ahead of timelines in planning launch plans and content designs. This will include defining the customer value journey through content research and content bank creations. Additionally, blogs and articles on the company’s business model and other related topics will be developed through extensive research to educate the public. Engaging content will also be created through infographics and video content for the efficient delivery of the company’s mission and vision. The project will also equip the company to produce quality content promoted across the relevant social media platforms to enhance brand reputation and awareness. This project will initiate a channel of communication through quality content that will provide the public with an opportunity to understand the collaboration between artificial intelligence and learning, which the company is focusing on enhancing.

Implementation of a validated home tele-rehabilitation intervention for geriatric patients: perspectives of stakeholders

Geriatric rehabilitation programs are effective for restoring and improving the functional independence and quality of life. Nevertheless, the aim of the therapy is to return home and once it is safe, based on the condition of the patient and social environment, patients are encouraged to be discharged home. Unfortunately, this does not mean that these patients are fully rehabilitated and have reached their rehabilitation potential. Besides, leaving the geriatric rehabilitation centre and not being equipped in order to continue with the rehabilitation plan influences the rehabilitation process negatively. In this context, tele-rehabilitation has been identified as a promising tool in the rehabilitation of older adults. A promising and effective tele-rehabilitation is the Hipper intervention (HIPPER), a program validated for older individuals after hip fracture and currently implemented in the Netherlands. The purpose of this proposal is to explore the implementation of HIPPER in the current practice in Manitoba. Focus groups will be conducted with patients, family members, clinicians and managers in order to map of the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of the Hipper Intervention in Manitoba.

Condemnation to Collaboration: An Examination of Relationships between Canadian Governments and the Cannabis Sector

Rural communities and regions throughout Canada struggle with economic restructuring. Influences of globalization and technological advancement contribute to the continually shifting economic reality confronting rural communities. This research focuses on understanding the economic implications of changes in federal policies related to cannabis legalization to rural regions, specifically the Kootenay Region of British Columbia. Through discussions with key stakeholders in the cannabis industry, this research will enhance our understanding of the opportunities and challenges associated with the recent legalization. With better understanding, businesses and community serving organizations can better plan for economic implications emerging from policy change, such as influencing local and regional economic strategic plans.

Causal Recommender Systems for Sequential Decision-Making

Recommender systems (RS) are intended to be a personalized decision support tool, where decisions can take the form of products to buy (e.g., Amazon), movies to watch (e.g., Netflix), online news to read (e.g., Google News), or even individuals to screen for a medical condition (e.g., personalized medicine). For digital users, RS play an essential role, since the available content (and hence possible actions) grows exponentially. While such systems can prove useful, they carry inherent biases which can be detrimental since RS tend to reinforce and validate the preferences of users (a phenomenon known as echo chambers), without consideration for the notion of diversity of users with niche preferences. To counter these difficulties, we propose to use tools from causal inference in order to model the feedback loops inherent in recommender systems. We also propose to bridge the existing theory of causal inference (specific to biostatistics and epidemiology) with the classic problems associated with recommender systems (specific to machine learning).

Marine ecosystem changes in Atlantic Canada: drivers of altered abundance and habitat use by waterfowl and marine birds?

Saltmarshes and coastal wetlands in Atlantic Canada are some of the habitats that have experienced the greatest decline in area over the past 400 years. Various organizations have monitored habitat change and bird use of these sites for decades, but no one has undertaken a comprehensive examination of changes in habitats or avian abundance, potential factors that influence those (including government policies), and the perspectives of local stakeholders on the successes and failures of conservation efforts in these region. This project seeks to remedy that through a collaborative examination of 40+ years of scientific data, as well as interviews with stakeholders and local landowners. The results will help direct future, multi-stakeholder land use activities and long-term planning for coastal wetlands in Atlantic Canada.