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Innovation Masters with Mondragon University
Jan 12th
Following in Henna‘s footsteps myself and Tatu will start next week in Mondragon University’s Innovation Master program called MiNN. It’s about Open Innovation and Intrapreneurship and Team Leadership. We are rather excited, as you can see in the video below.
It’s made of 11 modules in the following 12 / 18 months. I copy the modules below so you can see where we are as it would be lovely to meet you next year.
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January 16th to 21st [2012] – Team learning (Finland).
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February 23rd to 25th [2012] – Learning and Co-creation with the client (Madrid).
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March 26th to April 3rd [2012] – The art of Pitching and Design Thinking (California).
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May 3rd to 5th [2012] – Self management and leadership (Zaragoza).
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June 4th to 9th [2012] – Pitching, intrapreneurship proceses and learning tools (MTA + Mondragon Coop).
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July 5th to 7th [2012] – Open Innovation and Team Evaluation (Amsterdam).
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September 6th to 8th [2012] – Blue Ocean Strategy for Team-Intrapreneurship projects (Barcelona).
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November 11th to 18th [2012] – Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid and global challenges (China).
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November 18th to 24th [2012] – Sustainability as a trigger to innovation (India).
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December 13th to 15th [2012] – Wrap-up and future (Irun / Bilbao).
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January 17th to 19th [2013] – Check out (Finland).
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June (to be specified) [2013] – Scored goals (Berlin).
We are super excited because the original ideas for Monkey Business where born when me and Tatu participated together in a learning process called Team Mastery about five years ago. I think this coming year the Monkey Business will be taken to a whole new level.
I will write a short pre-post before every session and another one after in a more de-briefing mode. We want to leverage our insights and ideas to our friends in our network. So let’s be in touch!
Have a great new year everyone with enough things to do and many good adventures! Br, Ville
Monkey Business 4 Years!
Oct 5th
Yesterday and four years ago, on 4th of October 2007, was the day when me and Tatu wore the yellow jeans for the first time for a gig. We had just got freshly printed T-shirts from Cameleon Paino, and found the yellow jeans from JC. We took a car and drove to Rovaniemi to do a 1,5 hr workshop in the final seminar of one entrepreneurship project of a local vocational school. It went quite ok, and was fun. I remember we got feedback that we ate chewing gum during the panel discussion. More mistakes. More Learning. So no more chewing gum during public performances. Four years, it’s been quite a journey. A lot of fun, sometimes valleys, and sometimes the way is up. Thresholds and good times. Thanks a lot everyone we’ve met during the four years.
4th of October 2007, Rovaniemi.
I think we’ve learnt quite a lot. But what I know for sure, there’s so much more to learn. About monkeys. About business. And about life. Enjoy the Autumn everybody!
Keynote Cancelled? Call us!
Jun 6th
Not long ago Hugo was doing his morning duties at his bathroom when his cell phone rang. It was somewhere around 8 am. He thought: “Nhh. It’s too early. I’ll call them back later.” And he didn’t pick up the call that came from unknown number. The same person tried to reach Tatu but apparently was so anxious that even if Tatu wanted to answer he wasn’t fast enough. If Hugo had picked up, we would have been offered a chance to jump on a stage as a keynote in biggest Youth Entrepreneurship event in Finland, Aivomyrsky, within 2 hours.
Myself and Tatu were in Lahti 6 weeks ago hosting a Yellow Cafe / Open Space in Innovations for Knowledge Management seminar. They had a similar problem on their second day. Keynote had cancelled. Then as we came to the event on the second day we heard of that but the situation was solved already. However, that got us thinking – if Keynote cancels people that organize events should call us. And we would love to help. We need time to get to the event but nothing more than that. That’s enough to prepare.
Tatu with brand new Mental Models Game graphics.
We are ready to host a Keynote session at any size of an event. Anytime. On any theme. Now you may wonder: “That’s crazy. How can they be experts on any theme?” And you are right, we are not. But the audience attending any seminar is probably smarter together than any Keynote that was supposed to talk there. And we can make the people talk with each other. They will create knowledge together.
If it’s an opening/middle session of the event, our keynote would be the Mental Models game. If it’s by the end, we would host a massive Design Thinking workshop. Both are tools to make people talk and create their own meaning. Mental Models game helps to diverge thinking, and Design Thinking workshop will help to converge the ideas explored in the seminar. And the tools scale up. We can start from groups of 5. And go up to hundreds, thousands or ten thousands of people. It would be cool to do a workshop in a rock festival. Maybe one day?
What do you think? Does this make sense? How could we market this kind of service? And who’s the first client and when? If you are an event organizer, we would love to develop this further with you. Best yellow week to all! Ville
Loads happening here – What’s up with the Monkeys?
Apr 22nd
Hiphophei,
sorry for the silence with our blog. It’s plenty of things going on in here:
Couple weeks back we started a good big project with Johanna called Apps4Finland. It’s done for Finnish Internet Democracy Association (Suomen Verkkodemokratiaseura ry) and we are the coordinators for that. A good challenge, and interesting case with a hot topic of Open Data. Also we are very happy that it climaxes in the MindTrek conference in Tampere, which is the biggest IT/Geek-conference in Finland. Nice to get involved into new spheres.
Another big thing that just kicked off is Team Mastery 3. We got 10 people on this exciting journey organized by Partus Ltd. I am coaching it together with Mimmu, with whom we have been e.g. to the SoL Global Forum in Vienna and to the Young Leader Training of Team Academy back in 2005.
Henna is right now in Iisalmi working with young aspiring students, future leaders and entrepreneurs, from various vocational schools. She is the headcoach of a 24hr entrepreneurial camp. Creating the learning environment there.
Johanna is maybe having the most fun of us all. She’s being a teampreneur for her friends who have their own commercial garden. And now it’s the busiest time of the year as the spring is here so loads of seeds to be planted. That keeps Johanna busy during the days this week. “The most important thing in life is gardening, and even that is not so important.” Old Zen wisdom goes.
Janne has been doing a learning environments with our partner Business Arena today working on the local innovation ecosystem of Central Finland.
Janna and Tatu did a journey to Kokkola last friday and Tatu has been typing fingers on fire proposals for co-operation for the regional council as well as for the univ of Applied Sciences over there. Let’s see what we can cook up.
This Saturday there’s a BarCamp in Helsinki. Me and Henna will be there of the Monkeys. Very interesting to see based on my experiences with hosting Open Spaces such as the Un-conference in Jyväskylä last Friday with Jane Porter. It was great to host a pretty revolutionary event made in co-operation between the Jyväskylä’s two universities.
Next week we have about 20 people coming from all over Europe to visit Finland. It’s a gathering of people with spark in their eyes to learn something about Systems Intelligence and how to deal with uncertain times. Very excited about this co-creational jungle trip with CoMind fellows.
I wonder what I am forgetting. Oh yes, we’ve got a new Monkey into the office. Iiro is a DJ, and about to graduate from Team Academy before the midsummer. He’s finishing now his thesis about exporting Finnish educational model into abroad. I am very honoured to get his energy and expertise into the Monkey Business. You are most welcome Iiro!
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