OP Software Academy

We at OP Financial Group want to find even more efficient and diverse learning methods for our personnel. That’s why we established OP Software Academy.

We at OP Financial Group want to find even more efficient and diverse learning methods for our personnel. That’s why we established OP Software Academy.

OP Software Academy is OP Financial Group’s competence development community. It offers learning opportunities to OP employees who want to develop their technological expertise. The Academy’s courses help OP employees to systematically and continuously deepen their technology competencies.

Employees can choose from a broad offering of courses to deepen their current expertise, or start studying a completely new subject. Software Academy courses are run for small groups and mentored by OP professionals with deep expertise.

What do OP people think about their studies in OP Software Academy? Here’s one opinion: “The weekly small group discussions were awesome. The concept of OP Software Academy is fantastic: it increases cooperation between roles and gives a new perspective.” Read more about Software Academy's on rector Iiris Puhakka interview.  

Examples of themes explored on OP Software Academy’s current courses:

70:20:10 model

On-the-job learning and development play a key role at OP Financial Group. To support this, we use the 70:20:10 model.

Based on the 70:20:10 model, an employee can spend their working hours as follows:

  • 70% on daily tasks
  • 20% on developing work methods and practices to improve efficiency
  • 10% on competence development and learning.


The goal of the 70:20:10 model is to make daily tasks more efficient and meaningful for our expert staff. The model enables time allocation to each of the three elements: daily tasks, improving practices and learning new.

In other words, as an OP employee, you get to use 10% of your daily hours to study topics such as cloud services, business studies or a new programming language. 20% is spent on improving daily work and practices, which can mean participating in meetings, events and forums in your work community. The rest of your working time is allocated to daily tasks.
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