VIDEO: A Day in the Life in Lagos
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The Oxford team is spending 8 weeks in Lagos on a consulting project with Access Bank. In the next 3 minutes, mcfaddenplace productions will take you to where the team, Jayne Thorpe, Lijun Jiang, Timothy Ojo, and Michael McFadden, are working diligently on their task at hand. Be on the watch out for a special guest appearance by Kelly McFadden.
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Nokia - Dubai and Oxford bound
The Nokia team will reunite later this week in the jewel of the Emirates, Dubai to present its findings to Nokia MEA. We expect this week to be one of the most challenging yet as we synthesise our discoveries and develop key recommendations for Nokia. Judging by the photos it has not been all work and no play.
Tim has purchased himself a stress relieving Hookah in Casablanca. Bing and Ankur enjoyed an off road desert excursion from Dubai and Doug visited a Lion Park outside Joburg.
Plus there is even more 'play' on the cards. The whole team is looking forward to being treated by Nokia to an afternoon of indoor snow skiing in Dubai this Thursday. Then it is back to Oxford for the big write up. We are all a litte tired of living out of a hotel and look forward to resuming normal pub routines back in Oxford.
Cheers all,
Tim, Bing, Ankur and Doug
Thirsty Thursdays
Workin' hard or hardly workin?
After a long day at the office or maybe just in the seminar rooms of SBS, the Oxford and London based SCP's have been gathering Thursdays in London. Here are some pics from week 2 Happy Hour. Bad British joke of the week: in route to I asked a bobby at Victoria station if he new where "The King's Arms" was. He replied "under his shoulders, I reckon."
Living La Vida Lagos
An update from the team in Lagos...
The team has been working really hard. We are out of the house at 8am and often not back until 8pm - which are normal Nigerian banking hours. The picture on the left is our team standing at our front door on the way to work. The one below is command central - our office.
We will be sure to get another update soon, but we cannot access this website from our office. So for now, the best thing to do to find out about life here is to go to
http://mcfaddencircle.blogspot.com/ This is updated weekly.
Cheers from Lagos,
Team Access Bank
SAS Marketing Analytics
A quick update from one of the SAS project teams! We were lucky enough to head to Germany a few days before our kick-off 
meeting with SAS and managed to be in Germany the day that they won the third place match for the World Cup. We also managed to plan our overnight trip to Strasbourg to conveniently also be in France the night that they played in the final! The mood there was not as jovial after the game… but it was neat to be there anyway!
We had a good few days touring around Heidelberg and Strasbourg, drinking lots of beer and eating good portions of hearty German food – YUM! We saw castles and cathedrals and mostly tried to avoid the heat… thankfully there were many bars where we could find a refreshing drink.
On Wednesday we had our kick-off meeting with SAS for our project. We are working on a marketing analytics review. Basically our task is to investigate what types of marketing analytics SAS’s customers use and how sophisticated their usage of the different tools is. Apparently SAS thinks we will get a straighter answer than they would if they asked the question. Probably true!
So now we are back in Oxford, enjoying the sun and warmth, and working to more clearly define the objectives and approaches for our project. Should prove to be an interesting few weeks!
We hope everyone else is doing well – and hope to see those of you who are in Oxford!
-Kristin
Nokia - Connecting people, disconnecting people, reconnecting people.
Connecting People: The Nokia team has been hard at it since Tuesday July 5th with Ankur Bahl and Bing Ji in Dubai (photos coming soon) and with Doug Waller and Tim Robinson in Casablanca (see photo of Tim to the left).
Disconnecting People: Doug aka "First World Waller" moved to Johannesburg on Friday July 14th in search of people who speak english and play rugby (photos coming soon), leaving Tim to transform into his alter ego "Mr Morocco". The Donkey is a common sight on the busy roads of Morocco. Tim picked this one up from a used donkey salesman for super price and 2 year service warranty. The cart was thrown into the deal at no extra cost.
Reconnecting People:
The team reunites in Dubai on Friday July 29th to present its findings to Nokia. We look forward to seeing all the Oxford based SCP people on or after August 1st.
All the best,
Tim, Ankur, Bing and Doug.
Yahoo! there we go
After many hitches and false starts, half of team Y! have now gone to California to rehaul all of the Yahoo! processes, rewrite their business model and solve the worlds problems. Not really, but Venkat and Debanjan left on Sunday, David leaves on Wednesday and Vaniah next Sunday. Phew!
However, we have been doing some work over the last two weeks - here's a snap from one of our sessions, trying to decide the best way forward...
Public Sector Consulting - IBM
We started our SCP Wednesday with 2 days in Swansea, Wales. We are working with IBM Business Solutions as part of a 10 year contract with a client there. We toured the facilities and had meetings to get a better understanding of current processes and operations as well as our project.
For a team that has no one who has driven in the UK I think we did pretty well on the 3 hour drive. Siva did a great job with all those round-abouts!
Before heading home on Thursday, we drove down the shore to an area called Mumbles for lunch. Here are some pictures.
A quick update from one of the SAS project teams! We were lucky enough to head to Germany a few days before our kick-off 
meeting with SAS and managed to be in Germany the day that they won the third place match for the World Cup. We also managed to plan our overnight trip to Strasbourg to conveniently also be in France the night that they played in the final! The mood there was not as jovial after the game… but it was neat to be there anyway!
We had a good few days touring around Heidelberg and Strasbourg, drinking lots of beer and eating good portions of hearty German food – YUM! We saw castles and cathedrals and mostly tried to avoid the heat… thankfully there were many bars where we could find a refreshing drink.
On Wednesday we had our kick-off meeting with SAS for our project. We are working on a marketing analytics review. Basically our task is to investigate what types of marketing analytics SAS’s customers use and how sophisticated their usage of the different tools is. Apparently SAS thinks we will get a straighter answer than they would if they asked the question. Probably true!
