Prototype Version September 2013Ville Keränen &

Monkey and Banana Coop

Lifestyle Company Presentation

Our mission is to make the world more fun

and yellow.

We started back in 2006 with following questions:

We started back in 2006 with following questions:

• How might the futures of Leadership look like?

We started back in 2006 with following questions:

• How might the futures of Leadership look like?

• How might the Organizations of the futures look like?

We started back in 2006 with following questions:

• How might the futures of Leadership look like?

• How might the Organizations of the futures look like?

• How might the Learning in the futures happen?

Over the 7 years and throughout hundreds of projects in the field of

organizational development in more than 20 countries we are still not sure about the

answers.

But we have found out the following about

ourselves.

Our Way of Working

Our Way of Working• We do not have solutions, no right or wrong ones. If we did, then the problem would be

the “not invented here” -problem. We believe that the answer is people and in people. People can come up with right solutions if they are supported with time, permission and space to do that. And we believe it is best if people who are the ones to implement the new ideas also come up with them.

Our Way of Working• We do not have solutions, no right or wrong ones. If we did, then the problem would be

the “not invented here” -problem. We believe that the answer is people and in people. People can come up with right solutions if they are supported with time, permission and space to do that. And we believe it is best if people who are the ones to implement the new ideas also come up with them.

• So what does Monkey do if not offer solutions? We help by creating the time, space and permission for dialogue and experiments. And through those experiments and dialogue we start to find solutions. Together.

Our Way of Working• We do not have solutions, no right or wrong ones. If we did, then the problem would be

the “not invented here” -problem. We believe that the answer is people and in people. People can come up with right solutions if they are supported with time, permission and space to do that. And we believe it is best if people who are the ones to implement the new ideas also come up with them.

• So what does Monkey do if not offer solutions? We help by creating the time, space and permission for dialogue and experiments. And through those experiments and dialogue we start to find solutions. Together.

• Monkey challenges you to think. Monkey challenges you to search for better questions which help to think better. Better thinking leads to potential solutions, which we support to experiment in practice.

Our Way of Working• We do not have solutions, no right or wrong ones. If we did, then the problem would be

the “not invented here” -problem. We believe that the answer is people and in people. People can come up with right solutions if they are supported with time, permission and space to do that. And we believe it is best if people who are the ones to implement the new ideas also come up with them.

• So what does Monkey do if not offer solutions? We help by creating the time, space and permission for dialogue and experiments. And through those experiments and dialogue we start to find solutions. Together.

• Monkey challenges you to think. Monkey challenges you to search for better questions which help to think better. Better thinking leads to potential solutions, which we support to experiment in practice.

• Monkey helps and encourages to try something new and to build prototypes. By doing we concretize ideas and thoughts. Does this work or not? Let’s try!

Our Way of Working• We do not have solutions, no right or wrong ones. If we did, then the problem would be

the “not invented here” -problem. We believe that the answer is people and in people. People can come up with right solutions if they are supported with time, permission and space to do that. And we believe it is best if people who are the ones to implement the new ideas also come up with them.

• So what does Monkey do if not offer solutions? We help by creating the time, space and permission for dialogue and experiments. And through those experiments and dialogue we start to find solutions. Together.

• Monkey challenges you to think. Monkey challenges you to search for better questions which help to think better. Better thinking leads to potential solutions, which we support to experiment in practice.

• Monkey helps and encourages to try something new and to build prototypes. By doing we concretize ideas and thoughts. Does this work or not? Let’s try!

• We believe that the only mistake is that if we do not learn anything. The knowledge grows by sharing it with others.

Blue Ocean Strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy

Blue Ocean StrategyYellow

Blue Ocean StrategyYellow

Blue Ocean StrategyYellow

Blue Ocean StrategyYellow

Blue Ocean StrategyYellow

Yellow Ocean Strategy

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Yellow Ocean StrategyWe have eliminated

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Yellow Ocean StrategyWe have eliminated

Formality, difficult words and the idea of being always right.

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Yellow Ocean Strategy

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Yellow Ocean StrategyWe have reduced

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Yellow Ocean StrategyWe have reduced

planning just for the sake of planning and for creating an illusion of certainty. We do not practice robotic repetition of formalities and do not play business games.

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Yellow Ocean Strategy

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Yellow Ocean StrategyWe raise

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Yellow Ocean StrategyWe raise

Feelings and speaking from the heart a.k.a. dialogue: honesty for oneself as well as to the others, self-management, making things visible and learning together.

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Yellow Ocean Strategy

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Yellow Ocean StrategyWe create our value

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Yellow Ocean StrategyWe create our value

through fun, weirdness and by helping to implement new ideas in practice.

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We Create Value via Fun

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We Create Value via FunFUN?

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We Create Value via FunFUN?

• Learning is fun. Exciting. Motivating. Rewarding. Learning is changing behavior. Learning is always connected to feelings.

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We Create Value via FunFUN?

• Learning is fun. Exciting. Motivating. Rewarding. Learning is changing behavior. Learning is always connected to feelings.

• We ALWAYS design and create  our coaching sessions to be fun.

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We Create Value via FunFUN?

• Learning is fun. Exciting. Motivating. Rewarding. Learning is changing behavior. Learning is always connected to feelings.

• We ALWAYS design and create  our coaching sessions to be fun.

• We have a magical touch to create environments where people can experiment and reflect.

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We Create Value via WEIRDNESS

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We Create Value via WEIRDNESS

WEIRDNESS?

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We Create Value via WEIRDNESS

WEIRDNESS?• We are truly and really different with our actions,

not just with our marketing promises.

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We Create Value via WEIRDNESS

WEIRDNESS?• We are truly and really different with our actions,

not just with our marketing promises. • It starts from the way we dress. We are not trying

to rise above the participants by telling some success stories from our past.

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We Create Value via WEIRDNESS

WEIRDNESS?• We are truly and really different with our actions,

not just with our marketing promises. • It starts from the way we dress. We are not trying

to rise above the participants by telling some success stories from our past.

• We don’t have ready to go / fixed answers, and that we tell right away.

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We Create Value via WEIRDNESS

WEIRDNESS?• We are truly and really different with our actions,

not just with our marketing promises. • It starts from the way we dress. We are not trying

to rise above the participants by telling some success stories from our past.

• We don’t have ready to go / fixed answers, and that we tell right away.

• We do have out-of-this-universe talent to assist people to find the answers themselves.

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We Create Value via Experiments

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We Create Value via Experiments

EXPERIMENTS?

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We Create Value via Experiments

EXPERIMENTS?• Only actions change the world and create new.

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We Create Value via Experiments

EXPERIMENTS?• Only actions change the world and create new. • Being perfect and complete equals slow death.

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We Create Value via Experiments

EXPERIMENTS?• Only actions change the world and create new. • Being perfect and complete equals slow death. • Right after the first coaching session we start

trying new things in practice.

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We Create Value via Experiments

EXPERIMENTS?• Only actions change the world and create new. • Being perfect and complete equals slow death. • Right after the first coaching session we start

trying new things in practice. • The only failure if if we don’t learn anything

new.

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We Create Value via Experiments

EXPERIMENTS?• Only actions change the world and create new. • Being perfect and complete equals slow death. • Right after the first coaching session we start

trying new things in practice. • The only failure if if we don’t learn anything

new. • Knowledge is created through practice.

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It’s still a mystery to many what Monkey Business does.

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

W. H. Murray in The Scottish Himalaya Expedition, 1951

We dream and do the following...

Revolution of speakingfrom the heart &

taking care in work life

Revolution of speakingfrom the heart &

taking care in work life

Good quality design & entrepreneurship available

to everyone in the world

We operate in the following fields.

Organizations in need of participatory change

processes

Organizations in need of participatory change

processes

Youth unemployment& educational

sector

Organizations in need of participatory change

processes

Youth unemployment& educational

sector

We create more impact via scalable

“technologies”

Organizations in need of participatory change

processes

Youth unemployment& educational

sector

We share our knowledge in digital

world & social networks

We create more impact via scalable

“technologies”

Participatory ChangeProcesses

• Participatory Leadership Programs• Participatory Change / Learning

Processes• Participatory Value Processes• Learning Journeys

Youth Unemployment & Educational Sector

• The Pop Up Company -partnership• Summer School of Entrepreneurship• Entrepreneurship Education &

Coaching for students and teachers• Hackathons, Camps and Jams• Creativity & Design Thinking

Education for Students & Teachers

More Impact viaScalable Technologies

• Mental Models Game• Do The Never -club• Rural Design & Entrepreneurship

School

Monkey 2.0 aka Social Media

• Monkey Blog - www.banana.fi • facebook.com/wearemonkeybusiness • LinkedIn• Twitter• www.slideshare.net/bananadotfi

"Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is

the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Wheatley-

More InformationVille Keränen+358 40 731 2084ville@banana.fitwitter.com/VilleMonkeyhttp://labs.banana.fi www.banana.fi