Scop EVEA mapped and optimized its shared governance with a dynamic org chart
Every role, skill and commitment of the cooperative sits on one screen, and the teams keep that org chart accurate as their work changes.
Sector: Environmental consulting | Team size: 140 employees
EVEA is a consulting firm, a training organization, and a publisher and distributor of software tools (ASKOR) that helps companies improve their environmental and social performance.
Since 2005, this Scop (a French worker cooperative) has helped organizations offer more responsible products and services.
Its teams work from 3 locations, in Nantes, Lyon and Troyes. They include consultants, engineers, IT specialists and trainers, who work in life cycle assessment (LCA), eco-design, socio-design, design, software development, and research and innovation.
The cooperative runs on shared governance. Its values are putting people first, solidarity and sharing.
Rolebase has become an essential tool for EVEA. Teams can easily find who does what. We have a real-time map of all roles within the company at any moment.
Damien Delmotte - Communication & Brand Manager
An organization too complex for a PowerPoint
EVEA grew from 60 team members in 2020 to 140 in 2023.
The company tracked its organization in a PowerPoint, while that organization kept getting more complex:
- Teams worked from 3 locations and some employees were fully remote.
- Skills were spread across more than 8 competency clusters, with cross-functional missions on top.
- Each competency cluster had over a dozen lines of sector expertise.
EVEA struggled to represent its entities as they stood at a given time, which held back its participative way of working.
Representing EVEA visually and simply was like exploring the meanders of an unknown river with a hand-drawn map.
Damien Delmotte - Communication & Brand Manager
A dynamic org chart with 140 faces
Jean-Baptiste Puyou, CEO and founder of EVEA, met Godefroy de Compreignac, the creator of Rolebase, at a trade show in Nantes. Both wanted to "simplify team life", which led EVEA to try Rolebase.
EVEA built a dynamic org chart, which shows the exact state of its business, support and governance entities at any time.
Above all, the org chart shows 140 faces, with each person's skills and commitments.
An LCA and eco-design consultant can also be a staff representative, part of the methodology working group, a trainer, fluent in Spanish, and a rock climber.
In my role managing internal and external communications, Rolebase has become an essential tool for presenting EVEA from every angle, whether to partners, clients, or during the recruitment process.
Damien Delmotte - Communication & Brand Manager
You can read on EVEA's blog how the cooperative uses Rolebase in its shared governance.