12 Ways Businesses and Entrepreneurs Gain from Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi) Tools, Practices and Training
Gains for : Clients, Employees, Leaders, Shareholders/Owners, Stakeholders
1. SDi is a strategic planning design tool PLUS – it provides a human systems framework to create appropriate product and service strategies for design, development and delivery
2. SDi gives entrepreneurs a tool to relate to the (often differing) perspectives of clients, employees, partners, alliances and communities – entrepreneurs can build bridges between multiple stakeholders, business environments, geography and cultures
3. SDi includes multiple business models and structures but GOES BEYOND them – business leaders can systematically build upon and re-frame their interests aligned around purpose, profit, people and planet (or self, others and the world)
4. SDi builds capacity – it offers a way of seeing the world that expands with the vision of the leaders, managers, employees and the organization and stretches everyone’s capacities in a natural, self-interested evolutionary way
5. SDi presents four KEY LENSES: bio/psycho/cultural/social – leaders can use these to organize and deliver products and/or services, develop relationships and communicate to multiple stakeholders
6. SDi helps enterprises transform risk management into resilience – this reframes the management of risk within global frameworks of complexity, flex and flow and emergent unpredictable conditions
7. SDi provides a powerful decision making framework for the allocation of resources – this enables leaders to make effective risk/reward decisions within relevant life/business conditions
8. SDi is natural – business practices developed with SDi natural design principles enable the natural flow of products and services through the value creation and value realization pipeline
9. SDi is a meta-framework of effective operational frameworks – it enables the appropriate selection and use of a spectrum of business tools, strategies and models depending on objectives, desired spans of influence, relevant time horizons and development cycles
10. SDi is based on research – it embraces human and social psychology along with “Good to Great” operational expertise and business lifecycle research . Ongoing research demonstrates how underlying complex adaptive systems make this approach to business responsive and flexible for multi-national and multi-cultural commercial conditions
11. SDi meshes multi-sectoral interests that embraces business, government and civil society horizontally, vertically and obliquely – this expands corporate flexibility and resilience as well as enabling coherent strategic productivity for stakeholders across sectors and organizational environments
12. SDi provides a multi-disciplinary platform for organizing knowledge, research, development, partnering and re-organization, to enable resonance, coherence and emergence – this enables innovation and discovery as well as strategic, accountable and systemic production with paybacks for all stakeholders
Where is/has SDi been used in Business and Entrepreneurial Endeavors? Southwest Airlines; IBM, ICM-Integrated Channel Management Inc.; Verizon; Collaborative Growth; What is Enlightenment?; Integral University; 5 Deep; Middleburgh Steel; What’s Working LEED Building – LA, Boulder.
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