Developing a Cultural Space to Promote Natural Enterprise

Embedding enterprising practices

The university application of

E=MC3

Peter BondLearning Futures Consulting (UK)

07507 751218Wirral, UK.

Extreme inventing and natural enterprisehttp://extreme-inventing.com

I would go to University…

…..if I were 100% confident that what I would learn would guaranteemy ability to successfully start and grow my own business, or get a great job in someone else’s.

UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE? Do both without compromise

…if I was 100% confident that what I would learn was not available outside of a university, that my learning experience would be deep, challenging, and intellectually stimulating and so prove valuable in life and work.

Graduate Competence Profile

i) being continuously prepared to learn and adapt

ii) being self-critical

iii) being self-starters

iv) being able to communicate [sell, persuade, convince…..] in speech and writing

v) being able to work cooperatively as a team member

vi) being able at problem analysis and solution making

vii)Show initiative, empathy, self-awareness, commitment, ambition and a sense of purpose (Stephenson 1988)

40% specialist knowledge 60% personal qualities (transferable skills)

Being ‘Enterprising’ An accolade applied to someone who has achieved ‘good’

through their own initiative.

Given by the person(s) experiencing the benefits of the enterprising

act, and/or an observer of the act’s positive impact.

Becomes part of a social identity if repeated (entrepreneur, MBE?).

Only given following success—not for failure.

Initiative taking, and positive result, both come as a pleasant surprise.

If the ‘good’ was achieved through novel means, beneficiaries and

observers might even be astonished.

Being ‘Enterprising’

Being enterprising is a social act.

An Enterprise emerges from an innate desire to achieve common good.*

Business is not about profit, but doing good.*

Employees (inc managers) thrive on the joy of achieving good.*

THIS PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH IS PRACTICAL, ETHICAL, MORAL, SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE.

**Honda Motor Company (1997) –cited Nonaka and Toyoma (2007)., Marcia-Anne Dobres Social Technology, (2000)

To Promote Student Enterprise Encourage and support the taking of initiative by students

Create opportunities for students to engage in initiative taking

Encourage students to seek and accept responsibility for the results of their initiative taking—to be aware of and shoulder risk.

Help students appreciate the need to know the proposed recipient of good (customers).

Doing good is a social service.

Doing good is a social process, often a joint enterprise needing

to be organised, coordinated, MANAGED.

Do the same for the University’s employees?

A ‘good’ result. Creating satisfaction, delight, happiness.

Removing dissatisfaction, unhappiness, sources of frustration.

Removing obstacles to others achieving good.

Making improvements.

Solving problems by designing and implementing solutions.

THESE APPLY TO ANY FORM OF ENTERPRISE, FOR AND NONPROFIT, ANY SECTOR, ALL CURRICULA ACROSS ANY UNIVERSITY, WITHIN ANYDEPARTMENT WITHIN AND OUTSIDE OF A UNIVERSITY, INTRA OREXTRA CURRICULA.

Where Opps to do Good Come From.

Within and without the university

Public Sector —NHS, Local Authorities—local

Business. from micro through small to large —local

Voluntary Sector—local

Students/peers

Faculty (curriculum development)

Community—local

Schools—local

LEAN INSPIRED……(N)E=MC3

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C3marketmaking

C2

organisationmaking

Information gatheringfeedback channel

Material distributionand information broadcastchannel

Material supplier

Knowledge/informationsupplier

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Solution making

EPEP

EP=Enterprising person

POPO

PO=Problem owner

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Increasingly

enterprising students

and curriculum

Increasingly

enterprising students

and curriculum

discovering

Exploiting (successfully)

growth cycle/systemlearning cycle/system

improvement cycle

Increasing number of

OPPORTUNITIES to do

GOOD

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CULTURAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT (MAX BOISOT)

stimulating

cont

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identify recruit

evaluate

organise

organise

evaluate

Total Integration by Means of KALIF ™ System

Face2Face offline

learning/sharing events

online events. growing repository

of relevant knowledge

learning resources

Team/CoP dedicatedto doing GOOD

STUDENTSCommunityStakeholder

sBusiness Managers

Total Integration by Means of KALIF ™ System

Face2Face offline

learning/sharing events

online events. growing repository

of relevant knowledge

learning resources

Team/CoP dedicatedto doing GOOD

STUDENTSCommunityStakeholder

sBusiness Managers

stimulating

cont

ribut

ingeducating

identify recruit

evaluate

organise

organise

evaluate

MARKETMARKET

Online EventsBlogs, Objective

sharing, webinars, discussions, hot topics

and issues, b/e.learning..

Knowledge/Information

Repository learner resources.

People, mentors, coaches, peers, cases, opportunities, learning resources, video, audio.

docs.

Online EventsBlogs, Objective

sharing, webinars, discussions, hot topics

and issues, b/e.learning..

Knowledge/Information

Repository learner resources.

People, mentors, coaches, peers, cases, opportunities, learning resources, video, audio.

docs.

Face-to-face Events

HacksKnowledge markets(Problem solving)

WorkshopsGames –simulations

ClassesAppreciative enquiries

Knowledge CafesExhibitions

InMotivational Spaces

(OOLEEE)

Face-to-face Events

HacksKnowledge markets(Problem solving)

WorkshopsGames –simulations

ClassesAppreciative enquiries

Knowledge CafesExhibitions

InMotivational Spaces

(OOLEEE)

Managing

A learning process.

An organisation/system creation and improvement process, with a purpose/goal.

As a complex network of conversations.

A process of co-ordinatingactions of individuals using resources (material, social, financial).

Increasingly

enterprising students

and curriculum

Increasingly

enterprising students

and curriculum

discovering

Exploiting (successfully)

growth cycle/systemlearning cycle/system

improvement cycle

Increasing number of

OPPORTUNITIES to do

GOOD

Scanning for opportunities to improve

Making, sharing or diffusing the improvement (solution)Im

prov

emen

t /s

olut

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to a

pro

blem

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mbedding im

provement/solution

ENTERPRISE CULTURE