The founding group of
organisations in this Leonardo Da Vinci project include those who already have a
commitment and knowledge in this area of people, organisational and business development.
And, importantly, they have the essential professional skill-sets to discover and
disseminate the emergent management best practice at national level, whilst having the
added experience, resources and communication networks to work efficiently with other EC
Member States throughout Europe.
The founders group comprises a
leading management publisher, networks of organisations rooted in organisational learning
or corporate academy practice, and practitioners experienced in corporate academies,
organisational learning and best practice methods.
This blend of organisations
provides a critical mass of broad and professional strategic expertise and practical
day-to-day experience to ensure that the project produces practical results of real value
which can be implemented quickly and effectively to improve performance and make
investments more cost-effective. It is planned that other national organisations will join
the core group of partners as the work progresses.
The ECUANET Founding
Organisations are:
The Lead Partner in the ECUANET project, Emerald Group
Publishing is a leading international publisher of academic and professional literature,
currently publishing more than 150 journal titles in the fields of management and
information science.
Emerald provides inspiration for management thinkers by
presenting new ideas and theories, which have been tested through practical application
and deliver real insight.
As an internationally recognised publisher, Emerald is
committed to offering high quality, valuable products while enabling the widest possible
dissemination of their work through traditional (via subscription) and non-traditional
(via partnership) distribution models.
In selecting titles and topics for publication and inclusion
in its publications and databases, Emerald successfully spans two worlds - the academic
world of debate and theory, and the practitioner world of action, decision and
practicality. Emerald strives to be the publisher of choice for academics, researchers and
professionals in the fields of management and information science.
Intellectual Partnerships Co Ltd (IPCo), the Co-ordinating
Partner for ECUANET, is an innovative process management consultancy involved in real time
organic organisational development activities. The company is founded upon three main
areas of activity: continuing professional development (CPD) services, co-creative process
consultancy services and learning management simulation models.
IPCo specialises in the design and application of dynamic
management processes and products, founded upon a powerful combination of business
excellence, academic rigour, results-based learning and distance learning methodologies.
Their purposes are specifically aimed at building the
collective intellectual equity and intellectual leadership capability in the organisation
setting.
ECLO professional membership consists of European
organisations from the corporate and academic worlds as well process consultancies in both
the private and the public sectors. ECLO has been dedicated for more than a decade to the
promotion and successful development of the learning organisation concept in Europe.
ECLO provides an opportunity for business and academic
partners to explore new ways for effective business development. These activities include
the identification of new paradigms for training and management development, generating
models and tools for implementation, strengthening effective learning leadership and
platforms for developing organisational capabilities.
NOCA is the Danish
Association of Corporate Academies and is a not-for-profit organisation funded by large
and medium size companies in a number of business sectors. NOCA was formed two years ago
as an organisation consisting of corporate academies from companies in Denmark, public
organisations and several Danish universities.
NOCA is working with the patronage of The Minister of
Science, Research and Technology. The purpose of NOCA is to secure the sharing of best
practice concerning corporate academies and to foster the dialogue between research and
practice.
KPC Group is an ‘innovation
institute’. By order of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Welfare, they
organise a considerable number of research projects within the framework of educational
innovation every year. They have been advising governments, education and training
establishments, companies and non-profit organisations for more than 50 years. KPC Group
is ISO 9001-certified and operates on a non-profit basis.
Global Change is a business and management development
consultancy, based in Lisbon, and are leading the national interest in corporate academy
and SM Enterprise academy development.
Innovation Associates is a UK based innovation consultancy,
established in 1992, with extensive experience in collaborative projects and organisation
and people development. In ECUANET, IA will act as Consortium and Project Manager for the
Lead Partner.
IA's core skills are project and consortium management,
commercial management strategy and business planning, marketing and communications,
coaching and mentoring and in Best Practice development and dissemination. IA has been
involved in delivering and managing EU funded projects in the technology, enterprise and
technology enhanced domains since 1996.
