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if not needed.
“Before we build
[wind turbines],
[hydro generators],
[hybrid power systems],
[HVDC systems],
we build people”
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How would you develop tomorrow’s
engineering expertise in the context of
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Learning Organization intent - The Long-Term Vision
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A transformational journey towards a learning organization
The Hero
Organization
The Systems
Organization
The
Networked
Organizati
on
The Fearless
Organization
The
Learning
Organization
All levels leadership committed to learning mastery
Individuals are heroes.
Teams are supporting.
Repeated processes.
Metrics are in place.
Expertise are
connected. Problem
solving capacity.
Challenging practices.
Try and test new ideas.
Collective learnings.
New expertise &
capabilities.
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase
3
5. GE RE Learning Organization – Operating Model
5
Onshore
Wind
Offshore
Wind
Hydro
LMWind
Power
Grid
Solutions
Hybrids
Digital
Services
CentralTeam (HQ)
Expertise Development Equal Learning Opportunities
Problem Solving Capacity
Cross-Learning Cross-Collaboration Change management
Re-Use & Adapt
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Building a Learning Organization @GE Renewables
Mapping the different REN programs where learning is happening at the organization
Motivated
by
Organization
Motivated
by
Individual/
Group
Systematic
problem solving
Design Practice
KS Communities
Experimentation
with new approaches
Learning from their own
experiences and past history
Transferring
knowledge quickly
and
efficiently throughout
the organization.
Learning from other’s
experiences and best
practices.
Training/ Competency Management
Ideation/ Innovation Onboarding Program
Lessons Learned/ FoE
License & Value Creation
KS Communities
Coaching/ Mentorship
The process
Search & Discovery
Hansei workshops
7. GE RE Learning Organization Architecture
7
Expertise
Development
Problem Solving
Capacity
Programmed
Learning
Design
Practice
Training/
E-Learning
Coaching/
Mentoring
Knowledge
Sharing
Communities
Lessons
Learned
Hansei/
Kaizen
Competency
Model
Solutions
Discovery &
Search
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Learning as core tenet in the Lean Transformation at
GE
Components of Lean Organization
Problem Solving
Capacity
People Development Value/ Flow
Standard Work Pull/ Kanban
Lean Principles
Lean fundamentals
Continuous
Improvements
Customer
Satisfaction
Employee
Satisfaction
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Building a Learning Organization @GE Renewables
Understanding the learning organization interfaces
Personal
Learning Mastery
Technical University
Discovery Engine
Design Practice
Solutions Knowledge
Base
Problems/
Issues
Peer-to-peer
discussions
Experiences &
Feedback
Chief Engineering Office &
Engineering Leaders Sponsorship
Lean Principles (Kaizen & Hansei)
O1
O2
O3
O4
O5
I1
I2
I3
I4
I5
Engineering
Expertise
Competency Model
Organizational
Dynamic capacity
Technical
Documentation
Change management
Coaching/ Mentoring
O6
I6
Mentors
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approval.
Competency
Model
Skills
Assessment
Process
Experimentatio
n Process
Online
technical
training
Onboarding
program
Lessons
Learned
Process
Design
Practice
Mentor
Connect
Contextual
Search
I1
I2
I3
I4
I5
O1
O2
O3
O4
O5
O6
I6
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Lean
Organization
1 – Problem solving drives organizational learnin
2- Consult the respective design practice
3- Consult the respective KS community.
4- Engage in P2P discussions & troubleshoot
5- Conclude and retain the problem solution.
Outcome 5: ‘Solutions Knowledge base’ interplay among
Lean/LO/ KS
Knowledge sharing
Program
Learning
Organization
Solutions Knowledge base at REN
Executing on the lean objectives.
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Toyota Way, pg. 182 – The leader’s goal at Toyota is to develop people
“A company growing its own leaders and defining he ultimate role of leadership as ‘building a learning organization’ lays the groundwork for genuine long-term success.”
When addressing the question of engineering excellence and expertise development in today and tomorrow’s engineering organization, we have first to understand what type of organization we ‘are operating in and how the expertise are identified and developed in every type.
Heroes organization for example a medical clinic hire a senior medical doctor and the supporting staff to help the doctor. The expertise is singular and revolve around one senior expert. A startup will recruit a senior sales manager and junior sales team to support the expert. The sales activity is developed around the personal network of the senior sales expert.
Systems organization would like to streamline the development of their expertise through common and repeated processes and tools. They’d like to move from single expert dependencies to reproduced set of expertise. However Organizations are complex, and knowledge work evolves across departments, organizations, teams, and countries before the process can be documented or updated. Work is invisible and we don't see it because it’s being completed in the minds of decision-makers and software applications before even been documented.
Network organization overcomes the challenge of fast-changing work processes by flatting the organization, connecting their experts and working in networked approach. Expertise are acquired by engaging in common practices, collaborating together and learning within knowledge communities. However, networked organizations are still involved in highly operational issues and pressing customer issues and rarely have the time or the flexibility to question the existing practices and develop a new set of expertise.
Fearless organization provides a degree of flexibility and liberty to question the existing practices with inquiry stance. Engineers are not afraid to investigate their conventional working methods. Safe climate is inaugurated within the organization that enable the engineers to learn through questioning.
Learning organization is the capacity of the organization to reinvent itself and transform itself through the collective learning of its employees. Learning organization IS NOT a university organization that graduates its engineers. It’s characteristic of a competitive organization that continuously innovate new products and services. Expertise systematically evolves into a new set of competitive skills and competencies.
What can work today may not tomorrow. GE Renewable Energy is transforming itself from Systems Organization to a Learning organization to stay competitive in the market. It’s a "dynamic" approach to expertise development that better fit the quickly changing and uncertain world. You can't just deploy today approach for expertise development and leave it for all posterity then expect it to continue to work.
Kolb's experiential learning theory (ELT) is a learning theory developed by David A. Kolb, who published his model in 1984.
What does success look like?
Create competency frameworks for each technical domain area.
Tie Training and Learning Materials to all identified competencies.
These competency framework models will enable us to identify competency gaps in critical domain areas and develop a training plan to close them and/or develop a hiring plan to acquire these skills.
Kolb's experiential learning theory (ELT) is a learning theory developed by David A. Kolb, who published his model in 1984.
Kolb's experiential learning theory (ELT) is a learning theory developed by David A. Kolb, who published his model in 1984.
Kolb's experiential learning theory (ELT) is a learning theory developed by David A. Kolb, who published his model in 1984.
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1- Peer-to-Peer problem solving and broad-based learning. Featuring tags to drive right knowledge to right people (experts) at the right time – the “killer app”
2- Critical knowledge finder Features resolved discussions with helpful solutions that were collectively elaborated and validated in the community Ask & Discuss forum. Highly re-usable knowledge content.
3- Expertise Finder: pipeline of sanctioned experts and others with Expertise per community member nominations with data consumed by company profiles
4- Proactive Learning in a Dynamic environment for the retention of critical knowledge and the protection of our intellectual capital – enterprise-wide wiki for lessons learned application.
5- Community capability report is the monthly report of the critical knowledge that has been collectively elaborated and validated in the Ask & Discuss forum of the communities you are a member of. This is a summary of the answers that have been marked as helpful by your communities. This report is a subset of the Critical Knowledge Finder (CKF) available in GEWiki.
6- Mentor connect allows engineer to enroll in a mentorship relationship with experts for critical skills development. Unlike traditional programs, this a one-to-many transfer of critical knowledge
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The GE knowledge store offers 5 critical applications ‘apps’ that can be deployed and operated within the engineering fuctions. These ‘apps’ manages and organize the knowledge lifecycle in the daily engineering job. If i’m an engineer and facing a problem in the customer project, i may rely on the respective technical community to get help and find together quick solutions. Resolved discussions are retained and stored for later reuse. All resolved discussions can be discovered and searched using the « critical knowledge finder » app. I may also need to connect with experts outside my team, or even my business, the « expertise finder » app will help me to identify the corresponding expertise and further start a discussion.
Career progress is the ambition of every passionate engineer, through the « mentor connect » i can match my expertise with more experienced and advanced engineer who will help to acquire the right skills to progress in my career. This mentorship relationship is 1-to-many which means the transfered skills will also be share with my community through the wiki space. My job as mentee is to document the acquired knowledge into wiki articles and enrich it with my community. All wiki articles are stored in the wiki space as a mechanism for proactive learning. These articles contains mature and solid knowledge to be reused and referenced in future projects. No need to re-invent the wheel every time we face a smililar problem.
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GE Renewable Energy – Engineering Learning Portal provides access to a wealth of rich learning resources, all in one place. The learning experience is best tailored to the specific Tier II business learning dynamics. You can find the competency model, gain access to many e-learning modules and tools, discover our onboarding processes, tap into a vast knowledge sharing program to increase skills and awareness, understand the design practices within Renewable Energy engineering, and find a mentor.
You can also discover and explore the specific set of your respective team and trigger an associated learning & development program to acquire the job-related skills.