Since the founding of YNNO (formerly known as Twynstra Work Innovation) we organize a studytrip every 2 years for the entire company (secretaries and management assistents included!). The first in 2002 to the Sillicon Valley region (San Francisco area) and Seattle where we have visited among other things Stanford University, Cisco, Documentum and Microsoft. In 2004 we went to Japan and Korea and visited the Dutch Embassy (including a lecture from Prof. Konno, a well known professor in knowledge management), University of Tokyo (RFID technology), NTT DoCoMo and the National Computerization Agency of Korea. The last trip has been to Boston an New York where we visited Babson College (including lectures from Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak), Bloomberg, NY Times Building, lecture from Franklin Becker and Lenox Hill Hospital. In 2008 we are aiming at the Scandinavia area and Germany.
The YNNO studytrip has become a phenomenan within the company. When founding the company, we have discussed the principles of overperformance and decided that overperformance was not just good for the company itself and its shareholders, but should also be a driver for all employees. Therefor we have decided to use 50% of our overperformance for collective learning and team building. And since we do not have a high turnoverpercentage of our personnel, this seems to be one of good organisation values we have!
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