OWMC Business Trip

 On 18th January, Mr Littler’s Year 10 Applied Business GCSE group went on a visit to the Oliver Wyman offices on Baker Street for a day of talks and business activities. Oliver Wyman is a management consultancy firm which specialises in operations and risk management, organisational strategy and leadership development. It has offices in 40 cities in 16 different countries. The day started with a talk from a Senior Partner at the firm about his role in the business , how he ended up working in such a highly sought after job and some of the challenges he had faced working on projects with some of the world’s biggest companies. The students then had the opportunity to interview other members of staff in more depth including a PA, the office manager, a researcher and a recently graduated consultant to get an idea of the different skills and job roles that are required to keep the business running smoothly. In the afternoon, the students had an opportunity to really show off their business knowledge and skills and put some of the Oliver Wyman Consultants to the test. Each group was given a case study about a business in need of help and had to put what they had learned into action. Using their business knowledge, each group developed their own set of proposals to pull the failing business out of trouble. The professionals were suitably impressed by the pitches that our budding young consultants made in the board room and after a tense deliberation, the judges declared that Conor Fitzpatrick, Daniel Proctor, Mohammed Rab and Bokul Miah had delivered the best solution to the businesses problems. Paddington Academy’s Team Business left the Oliver Wyman consultants fearing for their jobs. Watch this space!