Team-based entrepreneurship Jose Lerosa Siqueira Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Centro Minerva de Empreendedorismo

A definition What is TBE? In a learning environment: –People with different roles –People with different complementary skills –Integration of people –Centralized decisions –Moving leadership –Changing roles over time –Formal hierarchy –Observers or executives (no middle of the way) –Peer reviews

Three cycling phases in each generation: planning: who is responsible for which deliverables and with which constraints for time and other resources execution: going for it auditing: what happened.

TBE Effective participation Training program CMM level 2 (disciplined process, but not a repeatable process) Double focus, with priority depending on results –On the team – were the deliverables achieved? –On the individual – was his / her job done?

Pitfalls to avoid Bureaucracy – anyone may delegate authority anytime, provided a simple document is written and kept by both parties.

Role-Playing Game (RPG) Characters with –Weapons –Experiences –Vulnerabilities & weaknesses –Specific personal goals and group goals

Main questions on TBE Which roles How to manage it How to create a self-sustaining structure

KPAs – key process areas strategic planning execution evaluation

KPRs – key process roles Strategic planning –the leader –the staff member –the ant

Execution –the administrator –the task leader –the negotiator –the ant KPRs – key process roles

Evaluation –the judge –the auditor KPRs – key process roles

The need to warrant a self-evolving system The team culture –Common goals –Minimal organization –Defined leader –The need to survive

What to do with failures Make her digest her failures Many try; few succeed

The UML model

Other characteristics skills tend to disappear if not trained failures tend to increase if not worked upon a system in MS Access to control the rules, the enterprisers and the ventures is available.

Further contacts Jose A. Lerosa Siqueira, Centro Minerva de Empreendedorismo Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo phone: