Together with Tieto we iniated an amazing 'small actions that make a big difference' global values week during May 2010. It's all about people working together. We used the power of IT to engage people to act upon Tieto's values all around the world.

Basware wanted to engage all 650+ people in four big strategy kick-off meetings held in US, France, Sweden and Finland. Together we designed a successful conversation tool with key content, good questions, and good process. They had succesfull meetings with engaged participation. Basware is now succesfully putting their new strategy into action.

Vaisala renewed mission, vision, strategy, and way of working. Together we created fresh new questions in line with their new strategic approach. With an engaging process and handy tools we transformed their Global Management Meeting from Power Point presentations to a 100 % collaborative experience in line with their new way of working.

Tieto renewed mission, vision, strategy and way of working. Together we created a Peer-to-Peer process with hands-on tools for discovering new shared values. The process was collaborative and energizing in line with the new strategy and new values that were discovered. All 16.000 people had an opportunity to contribute.

ABB Service in Finland had a major challenge. They were to take a new Business SAP into use. Together we designed a practical visual conversation tool in parallel with their SAP configurations. The tool helped ABB to create a Big Picture view on the issue. Conversing together made people realize that the new SAP tool will help them to work more efficiently together. It will focus everyone's work for the benefit of clients. It is worth the effort.

Outokumpu wanted to launch new leadership principles. First we helped them engage key people in an appreciative conversation discovering best personal leadership moments in line with the new principles. This was a success. They involved 1.000 more people. Finally we created a conversation tool to involve everybody. The tool was translated to several languages. It was easy-to-use and engaging to participate.

Tieto wanted to engage all 16.000 people to think and talk together about the new strategy, way of working and new values. Together we designed questions, content, process and hands-on tools for inspiring conversations in various countries. Conversation is a natural way to create understanding and energy to act. The meta message: 'It's time to act.'

We are proud that we have interesting and challenging clients. We learn a lot by working together across various businesses and issues. These are among our clients: Aalto University, ABB, Basware, Comptel, Elisa, Fortum, Hanken, Iittala, Infor, Kemira, Nokia, Outokumpu, Pöyry, Tieto, TeliaSonera, Tikkurila, Vaisala, and Wärtsilä.

We work iteratively with clients design team to come up with creative Smart Talk® Solutions for our clients business needs.

Our clients have benefited from our Solutions among others in:

• defining a new vision for the future
• discovering new values and making them alive
• analysing HR processes for development priorities
• sharing vision, mission, values and strategy with all
• involving everyone to act out new leadership principles
• creating understanding for business principles
• discovering joy at work to make more of it together
• making the first meeting after merger a success
• designing new learning processes
• engaging hundreds of people in big meetings to converse about the new strategy and way of working
• engaging HR meeting participants on business issues
• discovering how to develop their business processes based on customer feedback
• engaging also our client's customers in joint conversations about business issues

We have learned through extensive experience in designing conversations, that questions are the key. It pays off to take the effort and design new and better questions.

Use fresh, open, appreciative and engaging questions with answers not known in advance. As people with various backgrounds, talents, and ways of seeing the world explore these questions together, new thoughts and ideas emerge. Good conversations are energizing and generative.

Our questions are like doors we open.
What are the doors you would want to open?
We can help you ask the questions.