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The EC Leonardo da VinciECUANET
Project Corporate Universities Enterprise
Academies Transnational Best Practice Network
I am an apostle of experience Leonardo da Vinci
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• Outline of Presentation
• 1 Rationale and objectives for the ECUANET
  Project
• 2 What is a corporate university?
• 3 Defining the challenge of CU design
  management
• 4 Configuring the CU bringing complexity
  under control
• 5 Options for joining the ECUANET Project

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What is a Corporate University? A corporate
university has the following characteristics and
responsibilities

• It takes its inspiration from organic business
  development
• It is a company-owned concept
• It is responsible for ensuring that investments
  in education, training and development are
  directly relevant to the business needs
• It defines a learning management architecture
  that is in tune with the organisations business
  environment and strategy
• It fosters life-long learning at the individual
  to organisational level

There is no single form. There are several
building blocks and it will differ from company
to company according to pace of change, the
organisations capabilities, business environment
and strategy.
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Rationale and Objectives for the ECUANET Project
Corporate university practice varies widely
across Europe and generally provides lower RoI
than the dynamic business-led corporate academies
of North America. ECUANET will discover the
strategic and operational strands that make up
performance best practice in corporate university
design, implementation and management. The
project will look to the future and create a
forum for new strategic perspectives on the
rapidly changing character of organisation
learning and knowledge innovation.

• ECUANET will
• build a professional pan-European best practice
  network of private and public sector
  organisations
• Discover world class performance best practice
  and identify effective management processes and
  tools
• Develop strategic perspectives on the future
  organisational learning environment and its
  consequences
• Define competencies and qualifications for
  corporate university practitioner-managers

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Defining the challenge of CU design
managementDefining Differences
(? strong focus, ? medium focus, ? weak
focus)
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Germany
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Continuing vocational training
University education
Vocational education
General school level
Educational Level
USA
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Germany
Externals
Customers Suppliers Partners
Other employees
Management-level employees
Target Group
USA
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Germany
Traditional academic institutions
Training companies
Training consultants
Partnerships Alliances
USA
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Source. Andreson 2003
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Defining the challenge of CU design management
DIRECT Learning activities INDIRECT Contextual
activities
Learning Strategy IV
Knowledge Management
Mission, Vision,
Strategy, Transmission
Learning Strategy III
Learning Strategies
Contextual Strategies
Vision Strategy
Culture Development, Dissemination, Change
Learning Strategy II
Communication Enhancement
Learning Strategy I
Other Direct Factors
Other Indirect Factors
Direct influence
Indirect influence
Source. Andreson 2003
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Strategic Learning Management Solution
Organisation Intervention The fdf model
Distribution of enhanced learning responsibilities
Ref Configuring the Structure and
Administration of Learning Management. Journal of
Workplace Learning, Vol. 17 No 7, 2005
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Configuring the CU bringing complexity under
control

• The CU Blueprint Profiler
• A comprehensive process model pointing to all the
  key decision areas for a successful outcome
• A database of emergent best practice relevant to
  learning management in a changing business
  environment
• Closing the learning to earning skills gap
• Emergent curriculum that delivers benefits to the
  business in real time
• Collaborative sharing of knowledge in CU and
  Enterprise Academy practice

Successful corporate universities and academies
worldwide are based upon the sum of all
development activities across the
organisation. The Corporate University Blueprint
Profiler is the empirical research management
model that links all these activities into a
coherent and meaningful whole.
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Options for joining the ECUANET Project
Join the ECUANET project as a Partner
Organisation Undertake case research in your
organisation Sponsorship or co-operation
ECUANET The European Corporate Universities
Academies Network Co-ordinating
PartnerRichard Dealtry Tel [phone]
6949Fax [phone]Email
prof.dealtry_at_ecuanet.infoWeb www.ecuanet.info
If you are interested to participate in the
ECUANET project, please indicate above your
preferred option, complete your details below and
return this form to Richard Dealtry, who will
contact you soon. Name Position Organisation T
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Resume of the Corporate University Blueprint The
Complete CU Management Administration Software
Solution
Its character a hybrid process, cultivar, based
upon econometric modelling experience, mind maps
and integrated curriculum development

• Features
• A design school process creating unique CU
  signatures
• Integrates all key decision area variables for a
  successful outcome
• Provides a monitoring and review function
• Creates a database of best practice
• Contains a knowledge resource on CU theory and
  practice

• Capabilities
• Overarching corporate management administration
  function
• Ability to create multiple CU case applications
• Ability to network the methodology and wide
  engagement participation in the process
• Change language to national preferences
• Create new decision elements to customise for
  sectors
• Search and review progress and outcomes

Technology The Blueprint is written using
Microsoft ASP.NET technology and the application
can be deployed on CD for installation within an
organisation. The process uses Microsoft SQL
Server 2000 as its database and this can also be
packaged up and installed. For more information
on Blueprint licensing terms please contact
Richard Dealtry using the contact information
overleaf.
Profiler