The BDM Capstone Project is an independent research project in which students engage with a business - either from organized sectors (e.g., manufacturing, IT, automobile) or unorganized sectors (e.g., small retail or vendors) - to identify real-world problems. Students collect and clean primary data, analyze it, and generate actionable insights to support decision-making.
Co-requisite: BSMS2001: Business Data Management
Faculty:
- Prof. Ashwin J. Baliga, IESEG School of Management
- Dr. Aaditya Chandel, Research Scientist, IIT Madras
- Prof. G Venkatesh, Director, School of Technology, Dhirubhai Ambani University
- Dr. Milind Gandhe, Machine Intelligence and Robotics (MINRO) COE, IIIT Bangalore
How the project runs:
- In the proposal stage, students are expected to provide details about the organization and its background, clearly define the problem, outline its context, propose a justified problem-solving approach, specify timelines for completion, and describe the expected outcomes of the project.
- In the midterm submission, students are required to include a short video interaction with the business owner or manager, supporting evidence such as photographs and field notes, details on metadata and descriptive statistics, and a preliminary analysis with interpretation of results and findings.
- The final report is a comprehensive document that provides an in-depth account of the entire project, from initiation to completion.
- The viva voce is conducted after acceptance of the final submission, for which the student must prepare a presentation of no more than 10 slides.
Official syllabus on the IITM study portal →