1. Social Learning and Learning Communities
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Louis-Pierre Guillaume @lpguillaume
Director, Knowledge Management Office
2. Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy
management and automation…
Balanced Geographies – FY 2016 revenuesDiversified End Markets – FY 2016 revenues
28%
North
America
18%
Rest of
World
27%
Western Europe
27%
Asia Pacific
€25 billion
FY 2016 revenues
~160,000
people in 100+
countries
~5%
of revenues devoted
to R&D
Utilities &
Infrastructure
Industrial
& Machines
Data Centers
& Networks
Non-residential &
Residential Buildings
21% 21%15%43%
6. The Schneider CoPs
The purpose of these communities is to
increase collaboration, thus helping
saving time, reducing cost and bringing
more business.
Communities@Work
• 170 Communities@Work
• 20,000 members
• 220 community leaders
7. A Program to Federate
the Communities
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8. Mix of Bottom-up and Top-Down
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Initialization of the Community Program in 2011
Three ExComs agree to launch a pilot (HR, IT, Strategy)
9. • 2012: Identify new CoPs, launch them on new social platform => 20
• 2013: Identify the “active Cop” => Measure the tangible value
• 2013: Groom the community leaders, industrialize ramp-up
• 2013: Fight against the confusion community <-> social network
• 2014: Create the Community Leaders Network, the role-model CoP
• End 2014: 130 CoPs, value demonstrated, the program continues
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2012-2014: the Official 3-Year Program
Goal 2014: 30 active CoPs for better collaboration in critical domains
10. • Top-down approach from top management
• Bottom up approach from existing communities
• Specific requests by each functional and business entity
• Request for quick and tangible results
• Ignorance by many of this new transversal concept, the CoP
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Tricky Ramp-Up 2012-2013; Need to Balance
11. • Enforce structure: Objectives, People, Interactions
• Bring visibility
• Deliver training
• Improve Collaborative Tools
• Provide metrics on community activity
• Access to a network of 220 community leaders: Lessons learned and
Best-practice sharing
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170 Communities Supported by Communities@Work
12. • Get sponsorship from ExCom
• Propose a community framework
• Help and support the CoP leaders
• Give a status to the CoP leaders
• Measure the value
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Good Practices for a Community Management Program
13. 3E: Education Exposure Experience
Employee Development Portal:
• job code => competency
=> exposure => CoP
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Links between Learning and Communities
Communities and employee development
14. Global Learning community: a future C@W
#WhatDidYouLearnToday campaign on Yammer
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Links between Learning and Communities
Communities and Learning Professionals
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Learning:
• I am learning from the members (through webinar, direct conversation,
Yammer exchange ...) of my community. Strongly agree to Strongly disagree
=> Net Learning Score: 66 in 2016 (60 in 2015) max=100
Teaching:
• During the last 3 months, I have provided expertise/experience/knowledge
to members of my community.
Links between Learning and Communities
Measurement of the community value: Voice of the members
Year >=10 times 5 to 9 1 to 4 Never
2016 7% 10% 47% 36%
2015 6% 9% 43% 42%
N~2500 voters
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What’s Next?
• Continuous improvement in the support of the
community leaders
• Improve measurement of community activity / value
• Increase the roles of the communities in the everyday
learning
• Create a Collaboration Academy/University