Objective
The overall objective of the project CEBUSNET is to strengthen the competitiveness of European enterprises by collecting, describing, verifying, consolidating, adjusting, and disseminating Business Best Practice (BBP). The main thesis is that European enterprises can enhance their abilities to compete effectively world-wide by applying BBP.
The project has two main objectives:
(1) Development of a framework for BBP consolidation
(2) Development of a dissemination approach and building-up a network, by which consolidated BBPs can be disseminated.
In order to disseminate BBP to a large number of interested groups, three goals have to be achieved:
- Activation of the CEMS-BBP Network
- Design and Implementation of Dissemination Products and Procedures
- Building-up of TBP-Support-Centres.
Important are the following subgoals, which can be derived from the project objectives:
- The project will use new interactive ways for BBP-dissemination. The intention is to trigger organisational learning processes in the participating enterprises.
- The project will apply a pragmatic understanding of "what is BBP?" Besides this pragmatic approach a consolidation approach will be developed.
- The project will apply special measures to collect and consolidated BBP. In the centre of thinking is the concept "verification workshop", which makes it possible to perform highly interactive sessions with BBP-suppliers and future BBP-users. Business success factors of the participating partners and countries will be intensively considered.
- After having analysed BBP-Cases in all partner countries and consolidated them by using the BBP framework, a process of BBP-synthesis will be performed. In this process "best practice results" and "ways, how to achieve best practice" are in the centre of thinking.
- The project will have a "life after the termination of the contract". Most of the participating CEMS-schools will stimulate the foundation of TBP support centres. Besides that there is a high probability that young companies founded by absolvents of the schools will "spring-off" and take the role as commercial TBP support centres, using the contacts, which these absolvents got during their studies participating actively in the BBP-consolidation and dissemination processes.
- The project is based on the totally voluntary gathering of six European business schools, which are already collaborating intensively since six years. The consortium partners are convinced that the idea of CEBUSNET is highly attractive for all CEMS-schools (12 in total) and beyond that for a large number of not only business schools but also other institutions engaged in the fields of education, training, and research in management.
Call for proposal
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50923 Koeln
Germany