Business Sector

Suksapatana Foundation, by Mr. Paron Israsena , has created cooperation with many private sectors with the aim of changing the method of personnel development to focus on learning through real experiences, and the project according to the learning guidelines to create with intelligence, Constructionism, instead of sending personnel to train in a square classroom. Giving people the opportunity at the operational level to work on their interest projects allows them to show their potential through projects presented which helps increase the organization’s productivity. The goal of learning through practical experiments is to promote personnel knowledge in both academic and practical. It also promotes the confidence in learning new things by oneself, creates loyalty and organizational awareness leading to responsibility towards communities and the nation.

Paron stated his vision on the retiring from the position of President, The Siam Cement Public Company Limited that “I wholeheartedly believe that the most important resource of the organization is people in the organization because they are people who will lead the business to grow, not machinery nor buildings.” Paron also emphasized the importance of human resource development continuously that, “When I am retired, I want to use the time I have to develop Thai people to continue fighting in the world because the most important resource in Thailand is Thai people, Thai children. I have the intention to develop Thai people to be able to compete in the world. So that Thai people are able to learn by themselves and learn as a group or a team until it becomes a habit of pursuing life-long learning.”

“Constructionism Learning is not something that can be easily accomplished overnight. From the past working experience, I’ve learned that bringing an appropriate change must rely on the private sector as a leader. And when it comes to action, geosocial of each area needs to be considered. Making a small pilot project in an area that is ready successful will build faith in people meaning that it will be a better result than it used to be. Make it as an example for people to study, and when they like what they see, they will magnify the outcome.”

Paron Israsena

Chairman of Suksaphatana Foundation

Network Members of Business and Industry sectors

Projects with Business and Industry Sectors

⇒ SCG – Lampang Cement Plant: C-Cement Project

Thai Cement (Lampang) Company Limited has been chosen as a pilot company in bringing the concept Learning theory to create with intelligence using technology as an important tool in promoting learning. The C-Cement course is designed to suit the Thai way of life which is a combination of three courses: Constructionism, The Fifth Discipline of Learning Organization, and Developing Mindfulness by Practicing Buddhist Meditation aiming to develop into the Learning Organization. By using the principle of Thinking, Making, and Reflection until the learning process can be done by oneself. As of now, there have been more 21 year classes that have passed the development of self-discipline, mental development, reduction of ego.

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⇒ SCG Chemicals: C-ChEPS (Constructionism Chemical- Engineering Practice School)

The C-ChEPS project is a collaborative project of SCG Chemicals, Suksapatana Foundation, and King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi to develop technicians in the Petrochemical Chemical Business to have knowledge and ability to learn by themselves in Chemical Engineering filed as well as increase the ability to control the factory effectively with the maximum safety. This course takes 8 months, and it is divided into learning Learn how to Learn through Learning tools such as Meditation, Enneagram, MicroWorlds, GoGo Board, Innovative Project for a period of 1 month. After that, specific knowledge in chemical engineering are learned through team projects and individual projects. The benefit of learning the principles of Learn how to Learn is to make students look like students, understand themselves, be inspired to learn new things, and be friendly with colleagues. It also creates Learning organization atmosphere in the company.
Throughout the 12 years in operation, there have been 209 students having completed the program. These students have not only shared the knowledge and magnify the outcome to their junior peers, but they have also saved the company more than 750 million Baht throughout 14 generations.

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⇒ SCG Network Management Co., Ltd. (Northern Dept.): C-distribution project

SCG Network Management Co., Ltd. (Northern Dept.) has started this C-distribution project encouraging 38 employees to apply Constructionism concept in their organization. It changes the managers’ role from ordering and commanding to be Facilitator CEO who is responsible for supporting and creating learning atmosphere for the team to learn through practical actions and teamwork. Also, it encourages employees to think systematically and take action. After that, the learning process will be exchanged via the stage of Show and Share. This kind of working creates a culture of teamwork among employees. It encourages employees to have an open mind to accept different opinions and it gives employees courage to face the challenges as well as the good presentation skills. In addition, this has resulted in continuous improvement in sales. In the 5-year period since 2008, the growth rate is over 70%.

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⇒ Panyapiwat Institute of Management: C-Piwat Project

The C-Piwat project is an extension project from the Work-based Learning model that aims to enable students to use the knowledge they have learned to create innovations in the 7-Eleven stores with many kinds of learning tools. The project arranges learning and teaching core subjects by designing the integration with retail business and providing new learning environment outside the classroom. The practice in the shop is for students to work in Project-based to create Value Added to the store which trains students to think and act systematically. Students’ projects that have satisfied the store’s management are the slice machine (reducing time in slicing sausages), Autolight (reducing usage of electricity in the shop), Jasmine Tan Jai (increasing sales), increasing ways of selling lunch boxes (increasing customers’ satisfaction). There is also a system that takes care of students’ behavior, who are 15-18 years old who started working, to reduce the drop out of students. This results in parents’ satisfaction and the drop in educational wastage in terms of organization and the nation as a whole.

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