Management Consulting in the Digital Age 2020

FACTS AND FIGURES

• 48 participants coming from 8 European universities
• 9 consulting companies
• 11 workgroups
• 2 challenges
• 9 challenge coaches
• 23 guest speakers

Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Intensive Training Programme was entirely provided with an on-line platform. The Training Programme Staff, therefore, organized different preparatory meetings, each for every team, in order to allow students to fully use the platform, familiarize to each other and be ready for the learning process.

The Training Programme has been structured in two weeks.
In turn, each week has been organised into two main streamlines:

- daily distance frontal lectures, provided by different Management Consulting Companies, within the program framework;
- a weekly  group challenge in which students have been involved in under the supervision of a consulting company and the support of academic tutors

The challenges, for each week, have been launched and coached by two selected Management Consulting Companies. At the end of each week, the two best project works have been selected and awarded at the end of the Training Programme.

IMPACT ON THE STUDENTS:

• They have improved sector-specific skills and competences on consulting skills required in digital transformation processes, gaining new perspectives on the topic trained by the project: 87% of the students has successfully completed the programme; 3.94 has been the average evaluation of the lectures (in a scale from 1=unsatisfactory to 5=fully satisfactory); 3.71 has been the average evaluation of the online BUDS materials (in a scale from 1=unsatisfactory to 5=fully satisfactory);

• Even if from remote, they have experienced and appreciated online group work interactions with students from different backgrounds/countries, contributing to the development of their intercultural competences and remote collaboration attitudes;

• The problem-based learning approach used during the LLT activity  has allowed for practical experience and development of key transversal skills such as critical thinking, cognitive flexibility, teamwork.