How Solvay and Team Academy Created an In-Company Learning Environment That Learns by EFMD Excellence in Practice Award 2008 -competition Norway, Oslo, June 2008 Etienne Collignon & Johannes Partanen & Jukka Hassinen (ed.)
Etienne Collignon, Solvay Corporate HR Knowledge Capture Leader and President TeamFactory, France Johannes Partanen, Head Coach and Founder of Team Academy, University of Applied Sciences of Jyväskylä, Finland
Part One The Actors
The Actors Team Academy Experience on how to export methods Motivation and inspiration to operate internationally Method transfer Method transfer Laboratory for management practices Solvay Team Factory Resources and support
Team Academy Fact File Program of entrepreneurship development, Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Founder: Johannes Partanen in 1993. Annual budget (for education): 0,5 million. 180 students, 4 coaches. Team learning and learning by doing. Innovative pedagogy and learning practices. Real companies owned by students. Adult learning programs.
Team Academy - School That Learns Learning by doing, real-life projects Dialogue and team learning Coaching Operating as team and being part of one s own team-company (team-entrepreneurship) Freedom and responsibility to act Shared Guiding Thoughts Trip-Around-The-World as a goal Networks and collaboration in Finland and EU Team Academy in Finland, organizing a meeting with young European entrepreneurs in January 2008
Solvay International chemical and pharmaceutical Group. Headquarters in Brussels. Employs some 28 000 people in 50 countries. Three main sectors of activity: chemicals, plastics and pharmaceuticals. In 2007, its consolidated sales amounted to EUR 9.6 billion.
TeamFactory A fractal of Team Academy in Paris. Supported by Solvay, Région Ile de France and 30 individuals, companies and organizations. Non-profit educational organization. Dedicated to promoting team-entrepreneurship in Paris. Contributes to individual and team development in a vision of a sustainable world.
TeamFactory leaders Etienne Collignon (right) and Danièle Darmouni (second from left) meeting with founders of the concept of Learning Organization: Otto Scharmer, creator of the famous Theory U (left), Peter Senge (author of The Fifth Discipline, Center) and Arie de Geus (author of The Living Company).
Part Two The Play Innovation in Practice
Transfering Innovations from Team Academy to the Whole Network Theory Context 1 Context 2 Organization I Practice Learning cycle Organization 2 Diffusing and transfering
TeamFactory as a Laboratory TeamFactory is a leadership laboratory for Solvay. On larger scale TeamFactory s mission is to leverage the next generation entrepreneurship education environment in Paris.
Part Three Accolades Impacts of Collaboration
Impact on Solvay: Creativity Within the Organization and With Clients Product development inside Solvay using Team Academy s practices Product development with clients using Team Academy s practices
Impact on Solvay: Implementing the Ideas of Sustainable Development 30 000 Solvay employees coached with Team Academy Methods
Impact on Solvay: Strategy and Dialogue with Stakeholders TeamFactory is inspiring the strategy of Solvay. At the moment, Solvay executives are in the process of defining Solvay as learning society, to support the challenges of Sustainable Development. TeamFactory is giving models for dialogue between stakeholders. TeamFactory is accelerating change in Solvay.
Impact on Team Academy: Morale Boost and Cultural Understanding Increased internal drive and morale boost on using the practices outside the university. Strengthened brand because of collaboration with Solvay (major company). Knowledge on how to start an operational unit (school or business unit) similar to Team Academy in EU - increased understanding on cultural and contextual differences.
Part Four After the Play Lessons Learnt
Lesson One: Grassroots Change Management Individuals and small teams on all organizational levels can change big organizations like Solvay... It is not only the top that can change the organization... Today s rapidly changing environment requires change management activity from all levels... This is the idea of learning organization in practice.
Lesson Two: New Management Practices Tomorrow s management practices include such themes as entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, partnerships, open innovation, social change... Small and innovative organizations like Team Academy are the pioneers in the development of new management practices... bigger organizations will adapt these practices from smaller ones.
Lesson Three: It s All About the Young People! Team Academy is a weak signal of the learning organization for the 21st century. Too few leaders of traditional organizations are capable of observing these seeds for future. It is crucial to reveal the new processes for leadership, innovation and sustainable development. Having young team entrepreneurs deeply living this new social and economic world very close to the old traditional big company is helping a lot the necessary changes that we have to introduce.
Part Five Encores The Future of Cooperation Between Team Academy and Solvay
Towards Future Solvay will go on supporting TeamFactory. Team Academy with her European network will grow internationally. TeamFactory will be the place for experimentation and creation of new knowledge for both founders.
Contact Info Team Academy Solvay & TeamFactory Mr. Johannes Partanen p. +358 400 642 466 johannes@partus.fi Mr. Etienne Collignon p. + 33 1 40 75 80 25 etienne.collignon@solvay.com www.tiimiakatemia.fi www.solvay.com www.teamfactory.com