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Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Watson & Sons became the prime advisor to the British government on social insurance programs. The practice areas at Towers Watson reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Communication and Change Management. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. Insurance Industry Consulting.

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Oliver Wyman Careers

CaseInterview.com

Marsh and McLennan is a large, publicly-traded professional services and insurance brokerage firm with over 50,000 global employees and $10 Billion in revenue. Consultants here tend to serve insurance, investment banking, retail banking, government agencies, payment processors, and private equity fund clients. Public policy.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. Would our health insurance programs include their doctors and hospitals?

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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business

by both insurance companies and cardiologists to a new and expensive drug (which costs more than $4,000 a year, compared to pennies a day for existing drugs). The solution is probably not easy, but it comes down to four radical changes: Manage talent differently. The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Marketing and sales, manufacturing, recruiting (including people assessment), customer service, and support are all fields that can benefit from artificial intelligence according to McKinsey’s recent research. They can help them with change management as smart machines provide new insights at increasing speeds.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries. .”

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How AIG Moved Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making

Harvard Business

” One might be surprised to find a Science Team in an insurance company. Ninety percent of the team was recruited from beyond the insurance industry to enable it to challenge the status quo approach to decision-making. In January 2012, AIG launched the “Science Team.”