Few weeks after my internship is done I am thinking of the effect that my work will have on the company I interned as Endeavor's eMBA. Coming from management consulting I know this doubt is more than legitimate.
Will they follow my recommendations? Will the plan be presented and discussed among key stakeholders? What effect will have my work 3 years from now?
Although confident that my weeks spent working will have a positive impact in the company, I am not really sure of what will happen. Now that I've delivered the requested business plan I realize that there was no emphasis on the implementation.
This kind of commitment from a consulting's client is always tricky to obtain. However I believe a basic, universally agreed, plan with unambiguous milestones (e.g. "hire X developers" or "approach client in country Y") would have been useful in making clear for management what they agreed to do and facilitate tracking of progresses.
Sure there would still be the need of reminding the plan to the management, but in this respect Endeavor can play a supervision role. On the same line it would be interesting checking, 1 or 3 years later, how the eMBAs' internship affected, and hopefully improved, the supported companies...
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