Xtreme Value Delivery (XVD)
A radical path to unfold collective value potentials
Managing complexity and dynamics in organisations requires a shared understanding of the purpose and form of how each individual can be engaged in the process effectively. It needs a form of collaboration that uses and optimises the collective efficacy of everyone involved. We call this the path to sustainable governance (sustainability).
We are interested in how basic principles of sustainability can be embedded in the governance of social systems. Under what conditions does sustainability become a dominant structural principle of governance?
In this sense, we understand sustainability as the ability of an organisation to maintain its own viability and to continuously adapt itself to future challenges using its own resources.
The focus of our work are primary goals, such as:
Achieving these goals requires effective interaction between individuals, teams and organisations. The individual influences the behaviour of the team as well as the organization as a whole and vice versa. A comprehensive coordination of these levels of action can be very demanding. Generally they are strongly decoupled from each other. Failing to link the individual to the organisation is the cause of limited performance in organisations.
Essential characteristics of our approach are:
Classic interventions of the individual, team or organisational development are not efficient enough. They cause changes on one level of action, however exclude others. Sustainable governance integrates the three levels of action. Individuals, teams and organisations are related to each other, and developments on one level are also carried out on the other levels. Sustainable governance is:
1. Action-oriented
The interaction is comprehensively aligned with the joint activities and the collective efficacy is optimised.
In an environment of complexity and dynamics, ready-made solutions and best practices do not work. Change is not an end in itself but is useful where it increases efficacy and purpose. Our work, therefore, aims at developing and improving interaction together with you and implementing it permanently into everyday life.
2. Situation-specific with profundity
Current priorities must not be neglected. At the same time, the current business should not be an obstacle to necessary and fundamental development steps. We have the ability to reconcile both aspects; the fundamental development and adaptation of cooperation becomes an integral part of day-to-day business.
3. Scalable
Our methods and tools are consistently systematised and modularized. Their implementation can be scaled within the organisation so that the effects can unfold and spread virally.
4. Future proof
We have the ability to use small-steps for our benefit while preparing for major developments. The organisation will not only be prepared for today's events, but for the day when the organisation will reorient itself towards the future.
5. Resistant
A continuous, organic transformation of the organisation (metamorphosis) is established. Supported by the employees, the resistance and regeneration capacity (resilience) of the organisation is strengthened against external developments and disturbances. The organisation learns to deal robustly with external developments and disruptions.
6. Scientifically substantiated
Our work is based on complex scientific theories of social interaction, structure formation and self-organisation. They provide general principles for developing efficacy in organisational interaction. They are transdisciplinary and can thus combine classical methods and tools of social science disciplines for implementation in a holistic understanding. This results in the ability to integrate and develop great complexity and dynamics in the sense of collective efficacy.