Management Consulting 2009
Welcome to all, and particularly the 2009 Grenoble Graduate School Management Consulting Tools and Processes Students!
Here’s your assignment…. add a RELEVANT comment to this page – something interesting, creative, entertaining, useful…
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This is a place for you. Explore, Learn, Enjoy.
Do you want to know more about the course from one of last year’s students? Read more from Anshumaan Bansal here http://www.evolveinlife.blogspot.com/!
Hi Sharon,
I’m Pekka Rautala, an international executive and aspiring consultant born and raised with 3 years of school in the USA before moving to Finland. After studies in Finland, M.Sc. (econ. and bus.adm.), I worked in the pharma/cosmetic Orion group in various financial positions for 20 years before turning to marketing and becoming the president of Orion’s cosmetic company Noiro (now Lumene group and Farmos).
During 10 years of leading Noiro my focus was developing and internationalizing cosmetic brands such as Lumene. After Lumene was successfully promoted in several countries and the sales of Noiro had nearly tripled, the company was sold to private equity and I moved to Holland to fix the wet wipe subcontracting factory Codi acquired earlier by Suominen corporation.
After three years of restructuring and culture change at Codi I began my own business in interim management and consulting. My company Piet IJzer BV is located in Holland and at the moment I have e.g an interim commission for the go-to-market phase of Uniq Bioresearch Oy from Finland.
I have noticed that a good story is often valuable in business and it can create even such excitement that it is already half of the success. My strengths are knowledge of different cultures and a broad experience in both consumer and B2B brands.
Best regards, Pekka
Thanks Pekka for sharing the story and your strengths! A genuine story does create interest and I am excited to discuss this further in class later this month.
Hello Sharon and Colleagues,
I am Emre, an internal auditor in financial services with 8 years of experience. I have worked in Turkey and Germany, and assumed a range of different advising and consulting roles in the course of my career.
Regardless of the sectors; understanding the needs, offering the most feasible solutions, overseeing implementation and improving results are some of the common key elements of any value adding process. And exceeding the expectations of senior management and shareholders is becoming a more demanding endeavour in the ever developing complex multinational environment. I think Management Consultancy ,in this regard, is the perfect complement of my GGSB MBA program.
I am very happy and excited to be a part of this team, and I am sure this will be an invaluable opportunity for me to learn and share. Actually, I have already started learning! I am looking forward to seeing you all..
Kind Regards
Emre
Thanks for your comments Emre. You have hit on many of the points that we’ll talk about together in a few weeks: expectations of stakeholders, solution alternatives, managing the implementation and improving results. I look forward to the discussion!
Dear Sharon, dear all,
I am Felix; at the moment I join the MBA at Oxford Brookes. Before that I was working in tourism industry for 6 years. The major part of that I was a Product Manager for a niche golf tour operator, being responsible for two annual brochures. The last to years I was doing the sales of a software for golf courses, mainly in touristic areas.
From this course I hope to get background information how to act as a consultant and how to get an analytic view behind the scene of a company. Additionally this course then should help me in applying as a management consultant, not having worked in that area before.
I am looking forward to meet you all,
Best wishes,
Felix
Bonjour!!
I am an energetic and enthusiastic medical doctor, passionate about making a difference in my work place, with strong motivation and aspirations to succeed.
I was born in Australia, but moved to the United States, and subsequently to India where I completed my schooling and my Bachelors in Medicine & Surgery. I undertook my higher surgical training in Sydney, where I obtained my Masters in Surgery. Following this, I returned to India to complete my PhD in Cardiac Surgery, working full-time as a registrar at one of the countries’ renowned heart centres. My research was funded primarily by scholarships and awards, and my work has been published in over 29 international journals worldwide. With over 8 years of experience in treating critically ill heart patients, I am currently a Staff Surgeon and one of the Directors at Frontier Lifeline, a state-of-the-art heart centre in India.
Over the last 3 years, I have had to face several administrative challenges pertaining to finance, marketing, and human resource management. I realised that there was no sustitute for in-depth knowledge in these areas. This inspired me to take a year off from my busy surgical schedule and broaden my horizon by undertaking my MBA at Oxford.
I aim to combine my medical experience with my newly acquired management skills to help in logical analysis, strategic planning, and meticulous implementation of solutions to problems, particularly in the dynamic environments of the medical, biotech and pharma industries.
I am looking forward to the Management Consultancy module conducted by yourself & Mike at Grenoble where I am sure I will be able to learn from your wide experience and knowledge.
Kind regards,
Sanjay
Thanks Felix and Sanjay for introducing yourselves! Just a few less than 10 days until we’ll all get the opportunity to meet in person. By the way, I just arrived in Grenoble to a GORGEOUS day of sunshine and snow in the mountains. I’m now at the school making sure that all the administrative items are in order for the course so that we can start off quickly and effectively.
Dear All
I just read an interesting article from the Economist about the change happening in the corporate etiquette right now. It says the brisk attitude consultants faced before has changed. It is all about ’charm and openness and taking time with people’. Sounds interesting, don’t’ you think? See for your self at http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13110436 ‘Manners maketh the businessman’.
I look forward for the consultancy experience and meeting you all.
Best Regards
Susanna
Hi everyone,
Really looking forward to meeting you all next week and also to the challenges of the course! My background is in defence, technical consulting and team leadership and I am trying to add more broad management consulting knowledge for the future by doing an MBA.
Things that have challenged me in this area (possibly coming from at least one company who failed in this all the time) is how to get a customer really interested whilst making sure you under-promise / over-deliver. Harder when you can’t rely on the “McKinsey” level reputation of your firm…
Jon
Hi everyone,
I’m Christy and I’m from Hong Kong. I worked in an insurance company as actuarial associate for 2 years and now I’m working for my family business.
I would love to meet people with different nationalities and from all types of industries to share the experience and knowledge. I believe it would be very beneficial after working with you all in consulting area.
Looking forward to meeting you all.
Christy
Hello everyone,
I run small marketing agency together with two friends of mine. We specialise in one-to-one interactive marketing communication – buzz words for a bit more sophisticated direct marketing Before I worked in Xerox Europe in Uxbridge as a market research analyst.
I am sure we will have great time in Grenoble, can’t wait to meet you all.
Wishes,
Julia Kosela
Hi everyone,
I am Joseph Lynn, Director of a small IT services firm, currently studying an MBA at Grenoble Graduate Business School.
I am involved in several university related projects, including a drive to improve the global visibility of GGSB through a corporate social responsibility programme offering pro bono consultancy services and a knowledge sharing website (www.studyguider.co.uk). I am also developing offering a hosted integrated ERP and CRM package that may be of interest to some aspiring independent consultants.
I look forward to gaining valuable skills to grow my business and building strong professional relationships with my peers within the class. If anyone is interested in finding out more about my various projects, feel free to approach me in class.
Till tomorrow…
Many thanks,
Joseph Lynn
Techahedron Ltd
Hi Everyone,
My friends call me Franky and I just had a wonderful week in Grenoble, France learning how to become a great Management Consultant. Needless to say that Sharon was my coach for the week.
It was such a wonderful week filled with knowledge, nice dinners and wine tasting in the best places in Grenoble, mountain skiing, pubs and a great club to shake it all off!
I’d love to meet other great consultants on this site to share knowledge.
Me,
Frankly!