Things that you cannot talk about: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:05:09 +0000 - There are things that you cannot talk about. But it does not mean that the things would not exist. -thought by Wittgenstein- Filed under: A thought of the day, In English Tagged: exist, talk
Kokonaisuuksien ymmärtäminen: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:34:55 +0000 - Sitran Marco Steinberg kertoo (Kauppalehti Optio 18.2.2010) näkemyksensä ja suhteensa designiin sanoen, että haluaa ihmisten ymmärtävän, että design ei ole pelkkää muotoilua vaan sillä on strateginen merkitys. Sen avulla pystyy näkemään kokonaisuuksia, hahmottamaan monimutkaisia asioita ja liimaamaan asioita toisiinsa. Ei terveydenhuollon parantamisessakaan tärkeintä ole tehokkaampien lääkkeiden tai laitteiden kehittäminen vaan kokonaisuuksien ymmärtäminen. Filed under: Päivän ajatus, [...]
Suomalainen konsensuskulttuuri: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:30:12 +0000 - Sitran strategisen suunnittelun johtaja Marco Steinberg Kauppalehti Optiossa (18.2.2010) hoksauttaa, että kun suomalaiset etsivät uusia ideoita, he perustavat työryhmän jonka he laittavat suljettuun huoneeseen. Sama pätee työryhmien kanssa: kun sellainen sullotaan mietintähuoneeseen konsensuksella varustettuna se tulee ulos keskinkertaisen ratkaisun kanssa. Ratkaisu ei ole hyvä eikä huono. Se ei ole mitään. Jotta asiat voisi nähdä uudessa [...]
Game on!: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:36:48 +0000 - Did you know that according to marketing consultants at Apply Group, at least 100 of the global Fortune 500 companies will use gaming to educate their employees by 2012. The Entertainment Software Association, http://www.theesa.com/ Filed under: In English, Päivän ajatus Tagged: educate, gaming, serious gaming
Learning while pursuing shared understanding: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:19:09 +0000 - What is learning again? One approach close to my heart and Ph D is to look at it as something that occurs because of our efforts towards shared understanding in social situations. This effort corresponds to the interactions, such as rephrasing and explaining, which are necessary to co-construct a shared understanding of the domain. (Reference: Dillenbourg, [...]
Heikot signaalit: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:10:45 +0000 - Maija Itkonen kertoo Keksintösäätiön asiakas-ja sidosryhmälehti Keksissä (2/2009), että “heikot signaalit ovat kaikki kaikessa. Ihmisten valituksissa piilee mahdollisuuksia.” Hän itse kuuluu harvinaiseen naiskeksijöiden joukkoon ja on perustanut Powerkiss-yrityksensä vuosi sitten. Yrityksen päätuote on kännyköitä ja tietokoneita lataava pöytä ja teknologiaan liittyvä lataustikku. Ideointivaiheessa mieleen muistuivat valitukset kaikkialla risteilevistä piuhoista – heikot signaalit olivat siis ratkaisevassa [...]
Dynaaminen asiantuntijuus: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:50:23 +0000 - Sivusimme tänään kollegan kanssa asiantuntijuutta ja sen eri tasoja. Dynaaminen asiantuntijuus, josta käytetään usein myös nimitystä adaptiivinen asiantuntijuus on tyypillisesti sellaista, jossa asetetaan jatkuvasti uusia ja haasteellisia ongelmia ja pyritään jo hankitun tiedon ja taidon syventämiseen. Keskeistä on tapa lähestyä ongelmanratkaisutilanteita, lähestynkö ongelmia ylhäältä vai alhaalta käsin? Vastakohta dynaamiselle asiantuntijuudelle on rutiiniasiantuntijuus, jolle on tyypillistä nojautua [...]
Creating the new: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:37:36 +0000 - What is learning? One way to see it is to think of learning as creating “the new” rather than giving back what is already known. And learning can be seen in the performative – you have not learned it unless you can do it. - R. Säljö, Professor of education and educational psychology from Sweden- Filed under: A thought [...]
Inventive powers: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:54:27 +0000 - “Even if no one has ever assigned the adjective “original” to anything you have ever done, you must acknowledge that you have inventive powers.” (Jennifer Schweikert, Psychology Today December 2009 issue) Posted in A thought of the day, In English Tagged: creative, inventive, original, power

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Ph.D. (Econ) Petri Ahokangas, Professor International Business at the University of Oulu. Co-Founder and CEO

Petri’s extensive experience within Academia and ICT business covers themes such as strategy, internationalization and human resources. Petri has made a long career as an academic, a manager, and as a consultant for various companies in the starting phase of their internationalisation process and entering into new markets.

When Petri got his first experience with NoviCraft he was impressed with the opportunities it provides for companies. Through the practical experience as a Human Resource director he knew the challenges companies are facing at the moment with personnel development, in NoviCraft he saw the solution to this challenge.

Ph.D. (Econ) Jaana T. Kuusipalo. Co-Founder

Jaana’s expertise on leadership and the effects of generational change in organisations provides new insights into leadership that TeamingStream can and has applied into NoviCraft and NoviCraft training sessions. Jaana’s work experience from organization development, project management and lecturing has provided pedagogical expertise that enables her to turn leadership lectures into exciting adventures for student, not to mention the application of NoviCraft in the process.

Jaana’s role:
Jaana brings her expertise in the studies of new flexible organizations. Jaana's infectious enthusiasm for effective teamwork helps your team to find it's strenghts and weaknesses. Her talent for presenting abstract topics in an interesting and concrete way have made a wanted trainer, lecturer and consultant for many organisations.

Ph.D. (Educ) Piritta Leinonen, Co-Founder

Piritta’s research and practical work experience along with knowledge on how to empower distributed teams to perform better with the use of technology has been great advantage when developing NoviCraft. Her research finding has been modeled into NoviCraft and many teams have learned how to improve their communication in distributed teams. In addition her expertise rises from the practical work experience in a global HR team in the ICT sector. Her doctoral thesis was entitled: “Interpersonal evaluation of knowledge in distributed team collaboration” for the Research Unit of Educational Technology, University of Oulu, Finland.

Piritta’s role:
Piritta's expertise and specialist knowledge on the behaviour of distributed teams has been proved to be a needed add-on in modern organisations. Her practical expertise in R&D intensive company and industry brings concrete models that can be applied in training sessions to improve the performance of distributed teams.

Master of Education, Johanna Bluemink. Co-Founder

Johanna’s education and research on the processes of collaborative learning and social interaction in web-based learning environments has been the foundation of NoviCraft –awareness game and the scientific background behind it. Her strengths are in applying theoretical knowledge into practice in order to grasp the core mechanisms of intelligent human actions. Johanna says she is very lucky to have inspiring people to work with at Teamingstream and create something new together. She is currently focusing on finalising her doctoral thesis at the Research Unit for Learning and Educational Technology at the University of Oulu. Her core research interest are in collaborative learning, technology-supported learning, social interaction, shared understanding in small-groups, multiplayer games and serious games.

Johanna’s role:
Johanna has been developing NoviCraft and its predecessors for several years. Her expertise in technology enhanced learning, collaborative learning, and utilisation of game environments as a training environment is fully utilised in all TeamingStream trainings.

Lotta Hietanen, Project Manager

Lotta is a M.Sc. (Econ.) from the University of Oulu and she did her Master’s thesis with a title “Effects of M&A on employees’ psychological contracts and workplace commitment”. Her career progressed to ICT sector where she acted as a marketing coordinator first, before joining TeamingStream as a project manager. Her passion is to learn on the methodologies that build better work places and through that help companies succeed and prosper.

Tomi Väisänen, Director Business Development

Tomi did his BBA degree for the Oulu University of Applied Sciences with a title “Targeted marketing campaign in a high tech company”. Soon after graduation he moved to Stockholm, Sweden where he worked in the telecommunications sector for four years before moving back to Finland. His career has been with international software sales, product sales and professional services sales since 2000. First experience with NoviCraft was so intriguing that he was sold to the idea, and wanted to bring the product to other companies use as well.