Emerald InTouch for Kentz

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Emerald InTouch for Kentz

• Amanda Briggs
• Head of New Product Development

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

• Leading academic publisher of business and
  management research
• 40 year history of successful operation and
  innovation
• Pioneers of electronic and online publishing
• International content and dissemination via
  offices in UK, China, India, Australia, Japan,
  Malaysia and USA

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Emerald InTouch

• Personal Learning Environment
• Built on the Elgg platform
• Individual customised installations offer secure,
  fully-hosted solutions for dispersed learners
• CEWBL Middlesex
• Kentz Engineers and Constructors case study
  presented by Dr Matthew Hind

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Embracing Web 2.0 Technologies Emerald InTouch
for Kentz Engineers Constructors
Matthew Hind London, May 2008
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Introduction

• Some explanations
• Kentz international business
• Career structure in Kentz
• Learning and development in Kentz
• How Kentz use Emerald InTouch (demonstration)
• Final thoughts and questions
• The British Institute for Learning
  Development

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Explanations (1)

• Web 2.0
• Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all
  connected devices Web 2.0 applications are those
  that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of
  that platform delivering software as a
  continually-updated service that gets better the
  more people use it, consuming and remixing data
  from multiple sources, including individual
  users, while providing their own data and
  services in a form that allows remixing by
  others, creating network effects through an
  "architecture of participation," and going beyond
  the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user
  experiences.
• Tim OReilly
• The British Institute for Learning Development

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Explanations (2)

• Emerald InTouch
• Secure environment for learning and reflection
• Learner-centred not course-led
• Communities can capture and retain shared
  knowledge/learning
• Reduces isolation for distance learners
• Hosted service frees up institutional IT
  resources
• Comprehensive access controls - content can be as
  private or as public as you wish
• Provides opportunity for institutions to maintain
  links with former students or connect with future
  students
• The British Institute for Learning Development

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Explanations (3)

• Kentz Engineers Constructors
• Began in 1919 as an electrical contractor in
  Ireland
• In 2006 active in 22 countries
• Employs10,500 people
• Taking on a broad range of construction projects
• Competing with others to attract skilled,
  talented people

• Our commitment to our clients to finish the job
  whatever it takes without compromise to our
  values, and our unique ability to deliver
  specialist solutions anywhere in the world. These
  differentiators, driven by our values and culture
  of achievement and success built up over 88
  years, is our greatest sustainability statement.
• Dr. Hugh ODonnell
• Chief Executive Officer
• Source Kentz Sustainability Report, 2006/ 2007

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• A bit more about Kentz......

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Australia
Ravensthorpe Nickel Acid Plant Dawson Mine
Project
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Russia
Chayvo Site, Sakhalin Island
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Caribbean
LNG Plant, Trinidad Barbados Prison
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Middle East
Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
UAE Featured Shaybah, Saudi Arabia
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Southern Africa
South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar Featured
Maintenance Shutdowns, RSA Madagascar Ilmenite
Mining
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And Europe
Hospital extension, Dungarvan, Ireland Alvheim
Oil Gas Field, Norway
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Learning and development (sample)
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Combining face-to-face with online support
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Supervisory Management Development Programme
(trades EMSP route)
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Kentz use of Emerald InTouch

• Supporting workplace learning that stresses
  experiential learning, mentoring and action
  learning
• Reinforcing reflective practice and collaboration
  within training, learning and development
  programmes
• Building peer networks across Kentz Group
• Utilizing the Emerald online library including
  building into supporting workbooks (research,
  case studies, perspectives)
• A focus on the mainly younger people through the
  Supervisory Management Development Programme
• Use of blogs, uploading course documents, links
  to broader literature
• http//kentz.emeraldintouch.com

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In summary

• Kentz business is internationally dispersed,
  growing fast, and can be in remote locations
• Kentz competes hard to attract the best talent
  insufficient numbers of skilled people will
  constrain growth
• Learning and development infrastructure is seen
  as strategically important to the growth of the
  company
• Learning and development must be available to
  Kentz people regardless of location
• Experiential learning is embedded within the
  process, supported by workshops plus online
  social networking and library

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Thank you,Matthew
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For more information about Emerald InTouch

• Visit info.emeraldinsight.com/products/intouch/in
  dex.htm
• or intouch.emeraldinsight.com
• Contact
• Amanda Briggs
• abriggs_at_emeraldinsight.com
• Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Howard House
• Bingley
• BD16 1WA
• 01274 777700