I recently had the honor of working with the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University on the re-design and delivery of the capstone course for their Business Minor students, which is the culminating and integrative experience of this educational program. I write this post as a summary and personal reflection on the experience across both phases of design and delivery for this course, to which I was brought in to lend emphasis from an industry perspective.

Titled “Developing Organizational Opportunities”, this course covers the wide berth of topics around identifying, examining, and addressing the internal and external environment that an organization operates in. Concepts include critical thinking, strategy, internal…