Transformational Change: Business inspired by nature

Start: 
Mon, 2010/11/22 - Fri, 2010/11/26
Location: 
Schumacher College, Dartington Hall, Totnes, UK

"Course Leaders: Andy Middleton, Belina Raffy, Denise DeLuca

Now open for bookings.

Overview

The natural world is telling us that we have to radically change how we do business if we are not to pay a high price for ignoring limits to resources, ecosystems, resilience and biodiversity. Despite the scale of challenge, there’s increasing evidence that nature itself can provide the inspiration for sustainable business through exploration of processes and relationships as well as the well-accepted ideas of nature-inspired product design. This programme asks: “How can we most effectively reflect and learn from nature to manage complexity and rapid change in our business model?”

The scale of shift needed to align business and government with low carbon living on only one planet’s worth of resources requires the majority of leaders and managers to find space and rethink the way that they sense, plan, act and learn. To do this, they’ll need new skills and insights. Organisations ahead of the curve will adapt the way they develop their people, relationships, processes and products towards a business model that adapts, thrives and creates, rather than exploits value.

On this programme, 20 people from business and change organisations will work collaboratively on developing a template for change that they can take back to their organisations to catalyse transformational thought, innovation and action."

Thanks to Denise DeLuca for the pointer!

 

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