Customized Competence Development Solutions
Our carefully selected, participatory, and customized learning methods ensure results that last. Our extensive global faculty network guarantees that our customers always have the brightest minds and the latest research at their disposal. We provide organizations with up-to-date knowledge and skills on leadership and leadership development. Our jointly created and designed solutions are based on a combination of solid expertise, customer insight, concrete action, and an experimental approach.
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Topics to Talk About in Organizational Development
Building Data-Driven Organizations
Aalto EE offers customized data and analytics solutions for organizations to help them gain insights from their data and make better business decisions. The services include training, consulting, and coaching for individuals and teams.
Leadership in the Age of Transitions
Aalto EE provides customized solutions through training programs and consulting services to enhance leadership, strategy, and innovation. Solutions are designed to help organizations achieve sustainable growth and long-term success.
Sustainable Transformation in Green Transition
Aalto EE helps your organization build a sustainable enterprise by developing the capabilities and competencies needed to create a sustainability strategy, ensure green growth, and build sustainability into daily operations.
Clients Ranging from International Corporations to the Public Sector
Our extensive client base covers large and medium-sized private and public organizations all over the world. We work with large Finnish and multinational companies headquartered in the Nordics as well as with multinational companies based in Asia and operating globally.
Aalto University Executive Education and Professional Development runs close to 100 customized programs every year. We have long-term collaborative partnerships with our clients and engage them in multi-phase and intensive solutions. The programs are supported by a dedicated team that acts as a learning partner, assists in challenging the client’s thinking, and helps their organization raise internal awareness of the benefits of the program.
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Business Growth and Efficient Operations through Excellence in Data and Analytics
Our customers have identified several competence-related barriers to building a data-driven organization. Different industries and businesses are in different maturity phases. Still, everyday challenges can be identified, such as top management's understanding of data analytics opportunities, business managers' knowledge of data analytics, data scientists' understanding of business context, and collaboration between the aforementioned roles around data.
To help our clients build a data-driven organization, we boost data and analytics competence development at different levels and for different needs.
Clients benefit from a deeper understanding and capability in data and analytics through better collaboration between business and data professionals. This leads to better data usage in solving current business problems and developing foresight about new business opportunities.
The increasing importance of data and digitalization is causing significant shifts in the skills and capabilities required in the workforce. Many traditional jobs are becoming obsolete with automation, artificial intelligence, and big data. New jobs require different skills like data analysis, coding, and digital literacy.
As a result, there is a growing gap between workers' skills and capabilities and employers' needs in data and digitalization. To address these gaps, individuals must continuously learn and acquire new data analysis, machine learning, and digital marketing skills. Employers must also invest in training and development programs to upskill their workforce and attract new talent.
Overall, the increasing importance of data and digitalization creates a dynamic and evolving job market that requires individuals and organizations to adapt quickly to stay competitive.
Creating Value for Our Clients through Solutions with Real Impact and Applicability
We support our clients in creating value in their organizations and businesses through our impactful programs, which help them, for example, to
- Lead digital transformation in the business
- Detection of emerging catastrophes from real-time Twitter feeds
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Optimization of cleaning-in-place processes
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Predicting powerplant coal consumption based on machine reading models
- Artificial intelligence in assisting invoicing
- How AI and machine learning can benefit IT operations
- Upgrade management and leadership skills across all organizational levels
- Harness the organization's competitive edge and develop sustainable strategies
The solutions can vary from a board-level strategy process to large-scale development programs, for example, for the talent potential.
Key Issues for Enhancing Collaboration and Learning by Doing with Data
- Solving the organization’s real-world business problems with data
- Finding real business cases from the organization
- Enhancing cross-functionality to break silos
- Business managers and Data Scientists work and learn together
- Skills and Competence building by bringing insights from Aalto faculty, consultants and industry keynotes
- Bridging the gap to everyday work
Answering to Customer Needs
The Need for Innovative Leadership Development Solutions
Organizations face unprecedented challenges due to significant transitions, and the urgency for effective leadership development is greater than ever. New leadership skills and organizational capabilities are essential, as old approaches are no longer sufficient.
Rapid advancements in technology, the demands of the green transition, and shifting global landscapes create a complex environment for today's leaders. Many organizations experience declining profitability and disruptions in their core business operations. In this reality, they struggle to explore alternative strategies while ensuring the successful implementation of existing ones.
This situation places immense demands on leadership at all levels. Innovative leadership development solutions are required where human factors, technology, and strategic direction converge.
Aalto EE’s solutions always start by taking each organization's context and changing drivers seriously. Aalto University and its unique interdisciplinary approach give us an advantage in making sense of the complexity. Our solutions emphasize the living and inclusive nature of strategies. This manifests in scalable and agile designs that support all levels of leadership in organizations. Our methods are innovative and emphasize agility and creativity. They are ranked number 1* in the Nordics.
*Financial Times Executive Education Rankings 2023
Finally, humans and their well-being are at the heart of all our solutions. We believe in the power of humanity, and our experts and trainers stand behind this fundamental value.
Change Drivers in Fundamental Leadership Issues
Current big transitions are intrinsically related to technology, green transition, and the shifting global landscapes. For many organizations, profitability declines, and core business stutters. In this reality, organizations struggle with exploring alternative strategies and simultaneously ensuring they can implement existing strategies.
Burning Issues for Leadership
How can we increase innovation capability and radically revamp the business? How can the organization be successful in renewing and implementing its strategies? How do we seize global opportunities and rapidly scale products and services? How do we create and lead ecosystems that combine various actors' capabilities? Finally, how do we ensure human well-being and a sense of purpose?
Impact on All Levels of the Organization
- Strategic direction and adaptability in the age of transitions
- Renewal of core businesses and increased ambition level
- Increased demand for efficiency and rapid execution
- Strategic sensemaking and implementation across organizational layers
- Human well-being and sense of purpose – understanding of the future of humanity
Green Transformation Challenges Every Organization to Renew Itself
The green transition means a shift towards economically sustainable growth and an economy not based on fossil fuels and overconsumption of natural resources. A sustainable economy relies on low-carbon solutions that promote the circular economy and biodiversity. It is the most significant systemic change of our time. Every organization must undergo a sustainable transformation to speed up the green transition.
For companies, the manufacturing industry, and municipalities, the green transition can mean investments in clean energy production, circular economy solutions, hydrogen technology, and introducing new services and operating models. Low-carbon roadmaps and sustainability strategies drawn up by different sectors are important to this package. (Finnish Ministry of Environment)
Complex sustainability challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and global inequality call for ground-breaking and societally impactful research. Our key research areas give us a unique chance to create multidisciplinary knowledge on cutting-edge sustainability solutions.
At Aalto University, we study many exciting sustainability questions, like giving rebirth to abandoned materials, a revolution towards more sustainable energy and mobility, and solutions for water scarcity. We study innovation for poverty alleviation, sharing economy, climate finance, and many other topics, enabling us to create practice-relevant and multidisciplinary knowledge on cutting-edge sustainability solutions.
Towards the Green Future
We help our clients build a sustainable enterprise by developing the capabilities and competencies needed to create a sustainability strategy, ensure green growth, and build sustainability into their daily operations.
- Sustainability Masterclass brings your management team on the same page on sustainability matters
- Aalto EE consortium programs help you weave sustainability into your value chain
- Aalto EE helps to unlock your competitive advantage in the green transition via role-based competence development solutions across the organization
Our expertise in large-scale training solutions ensures tailored training services for every role in your organization.
Services include:
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Strategy-based business and competence development
- Roadmap for sustainability competence development
- Designing customized learning architectures to meet the needs of future businesses and different roles
- Deliver programs and solutions with solid quality based on our experience in the learning business
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What are your organization’s development needs?
Contact us to discuss what kind of solutions we can offer and co-create together for your organization.
Creating Value for Our Clients through Solutions with Real Impact and Applicability
We support our clients in creating value in their organizations and businesses through our impactful programs, which help them, for example, to
- ignite and support organizational transformation – whether driven by structure, process, or culture;
- upgrade management and leadership skills across all organizational levels;
- lead digital transformation in the business;
- harness the organization's competitive edge and develop sustainable strategies;
- cultivate organizational agility and readiness for change;
- inspire innovation and an innovative culture; and
- successfully implement talent management.
The solutions can vary from a board-level strategy process to large-scale development programs, for example,e for the talent potential.
Consortium Programs in Co-operation with Our Customer Organizations
Develop your organisation’s capability in operations like logistics, HR and business controlling, and the teams’ competences at the same time. Consortium programs combine dynamic exchange of experiences between different organizations and industries while allowing for the development of their own projects and organizations. The program goals and scope are co-created with the participating organisations.
What is a consortium program? Four to five organisations send each a team (or two) of four to six participants to the program to learn, explore, and drive change within their own organisations.
Benefits for Organization
- Both immediate and long-term impact through business projects
- New outside-in perspectives
- Continuous self-development activated among participants
- Potential for new business initiatives with participating organizations
Benefits for Individual
- Broader understanding on the topic of the program
- New insights and immediately applicable practical skills
- Enhanced confidence to develop the area/function in own organization
- Unique network of experienced professionals and colleagues
Examples of Aalto EE's Consortium Programs
Business Controlling
Business HR
The program emphasizes the following topics:
- The basics of logistics and supply chain management
- Digitalization and the future of supply chain management
- Outside-in perspectives and practical skills
- Leading change / Acting as change agent
- Personal development
Customized Online Programs
We also co-design impactful, fully online programs with our customers. The virtual programs are utilizing our existing/topical online courses, such as Essentials of Data and Analytics and Essentials of Leading Change. The program outcome and the impact of participants’ learning experience will be enhanced by tailoring a variety of learning elements around the online courses, e.g., live webinars, assignments between the online modules, online check-ups with the program director together with faculty, and small group discussions.
Our Co-Creation Process
We start by developing an in-depth holistic understanding of our client’s development needs, business challenges, and strategic objectives, as well as current and aspired competencies. We customize and co-design with our clients to develop impactful programs building on the clients’ strengths and Aalto EE’s expertise.
The key steps generally include
- developing a shared vision of the desired outcome and impact and how it will be measured,
- detailed needs finding,
- collaborative ideation and iteration,
- validation of the program concept and methods, and
- finalization and approval of the program.
We guarantee that program delivery will be impactful and inspirational. We deliver by selecting the best experts from our international faculty network and utilizing the appropriate learning methods. The Aalto EE Program Director has a key role in ensuring consistency and a red thread throughout the program.
Examples of learning methods:
- Impactful face-to-face experience
- Efficient and flexible online modules
- Business project work as an experiential learning platform
- Business coaching and/or mentoring
- Research-based innovative methods and simulations (e.g. Aalto Strategy War Game)
We evaluate the impact together with our clients according to the jointly agreed measures. We use both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Examples of impact measures:
- Leadership assessments, e.g. 360
- Agreed business KPIs, e.g. customer satisfaction (NPS)
- Other KPIs, e.g. a Leadership Index as part of an employee engagement measurement
- Value created by business projects
- Individual career progression
- Long-term impact survey for program participants
- Qualitative interviews
