Typical A.T. Kearney work week

Business Analyst

Manager

Monday

I’m in Brussels, where I:

• Drive to Zaventem and fly out to Poland
• Meet up at the local airport with colleagues
• Interview managers from different organization departments about their thoughts on the different new organizational structure options and evaluate feasibility of the different options
• Start consolidating interview notes to build a case for change
• Arrange team dinner in the city

I'm in Chivasso, Italy,
where I:

• Arrive at the client site at 09:30 to discuss a financial tracking model with the controller
• Review the progress made by the three improvement teams during the past week
• Assist Team 1 to quantify savings, and challenge their assumptions
• Run a workshop to define operator workload (including sensitivity analysis) before leaving for France

Tuesday

I’m in Warsaw, Poland, where I:

• Take a cab from the hotel to the client site with the team
• Discuss first results with the A.T. Kearney team manager and agree on the way to go forward
• Conduct another round of client manager interviews
• Go to the hotel fitness area for a late evening swim
• Meet the team for a beer at the bar to discuss the proceedings of the day

I'm in Lyon, France, where I:

• Run a project prioritization workshop and identify resource requirements
• Initiate a training for cash flow simulation
• Review key deliverables and set the meeting agenda for the coming weeks with the project steering committee
• Attend a team dinner

Wednesday

I’m in Warsaw, Poland, where I:

• Go to the client site to meet the CEO together with the whole Kearney team to discuss the planning of the coming project weeks
• Drive to the airport to fly out to the A.T. Kearney Berlin office
• Attend a team dinner

I'm back in Chivasso,
where I:

• Draft a summary cash flow model to consolidate the input of the project teams
• Share project progress and best practices with Operations Director
• Run a workshop to define the management processes required to sustain savings

Thursday

I’m in Berlin, Germany, where I:

• Work at the Berlin office to meet up with some A.T. Kearney experts and discus project proceedings
• Discuss all the different work streams with the project manager and the team to stay aligned
• Take a flight home to have a nice dinner with some old friends in Brussels

I'm still in Chivasso,
where I:

• Attend a plant steering committee
• Attend a plant management review with an A.T. Kearney Partner and the Plant Manager
• Tour the plant to identify further improvement opportunities
• Take the 17:30 flight back to Brussels and to have dinner with my family in Utrecht

Friday

I'm in Brussels, where I:

• Work on the organizational document and analysis
• Discuss in a conference call the project proceedings with manager and other team members currently at home in Vienna and Frankfurt
• Socialize with my A.T. Kearney colleagues to see what they have been up to this week

I'm Rotterdam, where I:

• Conduct a recruiting presentation at a local university followed by a lunch with several of the students
• Drive to Brussels
• Attend an internal A.T. Kearney "Friday in the Office" presentation
• Have drinks with colleagues