As part of the Community of Madrid’s project ‘4ºESO + empresa’ this past April, five students from Mater Puríssima School joined us at Opinno.
This project, lasting several days, aims to bring the education system and the business worldtogether by providing educational placements in companies so that young people are better prepared for their future careers.
Carolina, Daniel, Edward, Christian and Irene performed various activities during their time at Opinno, all of which were geared towards teaching them what we do and how we do it, as well as present them with different methodologies within the lines of the company.
To make this task of understanding the complexity of the company’s operations easier, several of our employees voluntarily offered to be interviewed by the students to carefully explain the company’s mechanism.
Irene Maria assessed her time spent in Opinno and stated that "it was a bit tricky to understand how everything worked at first, the connection between the sectors and their way of working , but it was interesting and we learned a lot, and it has also served to show how the working world functions."
In this way, it is an enriching experience for students and companies that are finding out how to make themselves known and strengthen their identity and proximity.
This is the article that the students left us about their time in Opinno:
'Opinno is a global consulting firm which other companies use when they have a problem with their business or simply want to improve. Opinno offers solutions through innovation using technology. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, but it is based in Madrid and to organize better, work is divided into three departments or sectors: Think, Build and Engage.
-Think (Blue Line): is the first contact the customer has with the company. They develop ideas and projects, and plan solutions.
-Build (Yellow Line): carries out the projects developed in Think. Its main task is to prototype and build, and later places it into the market.
It also has a division that works as an NGO, where projects that do not have economic return are performed.
- Engage (Red Line): here the customer reviews are collected and the product is modified to make improvements where necessary.
It also works with the magazine MIT Technology Review by publishing their content in Spanish and Portuguese, as well as Harvard Business Review.'
