From Monday 24th of January, 2022 to Friday 4th of February, a mission gathered 33 students with 15 different nationalities and studying in 9 different MSc Programs (including 10 students from MSc Aerospace Management): Big data, Consulting, Corporate, Digital Mktg, Equity Research, International Business, Marketing Management & Communication, Purchasing & Supply Chain.
They took part to a SESAME mission on behalf of Ascendance Flight Technologies.
The SESAME Missions Consulting program is a partnership with a enterprise which submits, in a mission letter, a current strategic issue, to a group of 36 to 45 students for 2 weeks. The mission letter specifies the enterprise expectations which is questioning itself on its market progress, its development strategy or its performance. For the students, it’s about taking the consultants role to handle the strategic issue in groups, to use strategic models and all the learnt knowledge during schooling and lead to a professional analysis and operational recommendations for the company.
Without disclosing specific information related to the very mission Ascendance Flight Technologies entrusted us, let’s simply mention here that all the 33 consultants have together to produce a strategical analysis of the company’s market (diagnostic) during the first week and then produce strategic and operational advice for the next week. After the work is completed, they have to do an oral presentation in front of the company and hand in a full document on the same day.
These Sesame missions are coached by strategy teachers (Charlotte Polivka & Dr. Christophe Bénaroya), to guide and help them on the academic and organizational front.
A Sesame mission enables to develop a great number of skills and prepares the students for professional life by giving the opportunity to:
– Practice soft skills and leadership
– Work in an important, multidisciplinary and international group (with different backgrounds)
– Be responsible towards an entrepreneur and one’s analysis and recommendations
– Be involved in hot topics for business: sustainable and advanced mobility, innovation, technology, digital data management, business models…
