General description of the organisation:
ECLO is The European Consortium for the Learning Organisation, a global organisation devoted to the sustainable development of all aspects of learning and personal and management development. It was established in 1993 as a not-for-profit organisation based in Belgium. Its origins were founded in an IBM organised conference together with the Katholik University of Leuven (BE) on Instructional Design held in 1991. The success of the conference generated great interest in the establishment of a network that supported corporate training and human development. After several meetings, ECLO was born with IBM, K.U.Leuven, K.U. Nijmegen (NL) and CIMID becoming prominent members of a small organisation. Led by its then General Secretary, Pierre De Potter, an ex IBM executive, ECLO organised its first annual conference in May 1994.
It consists of European and non European, organisations from the corporate and academic worlds as well as consultancies and the public sector. It is open to any organisation, interested and committed to explore new directions for successful business and people development, from a learning organisation perspective. Among its 66 current members can be found :-
• Corporate – Janssens Pharmaceutica (BE); KPC Group (NL)
• Business Schools and Universities – Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Information (RU), Birmingham City University (UK)
• Public Sector – NHS Education (UK)
• Consultancies – Arboth Learning Technologies (BE); KIO Management Partnership (DK)
• Non European – The George Washington University (USA); Rushall Consulting (Australia)
• Network – CEEMAN - Central and East European Management Development Association (SL) BMDA – Baltic Management Development Association (LT)
Skills and expertise of key staff involved in the project
Jim Jack has held management positions both in IT and in other business functions. He has worked in large corporate organisations and also run his own consultancy business; has solid people and project management skills having managed diverse teams with up to 100 personnel and multi-million euro projects spanning several years. He also has multi-cultural experience, having worked in the UK, Belgium and America and briefly in Hong Kong. He is the ECLO Treasurer and also their Events and Conference Manager.
Initially as a member of IBM’s Quality Consultancy Practise and then as an independent consultant, he helped international clients in the public and private sectors improve their competitive position through the introduction of Total Quality Management (T.Q.M.), Business Process Re-Engineering (B.P.R.) and Information Technology (I.T.) programmes. Depending on the business challenge faced, he has developed, implemented and managed various change management programmes for a variety of clients in the private and public sector in UK, Belgium, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic.
He was a certified Lead Assessor for the Quality Scotland Foundation using the E.F.Q.M. award criteria.
Other ECLO members will participate in accordance with the conditions in the EU Financial Handbook. They will bring pedagogical expertise in a variety of learning disciplines and from a diverse cultural and national background.
Contact Information
Jim Jack
E.C.L.O.
Venelle des Lauriers, 8
1300 Wavre
Belgium
Telephone / Fax - +32 10 24.16.00
GSM - +32 478 40.30.39
Jim.jack@eclo.org
www.eclo.org
