On-Demand Improvements

Future RE:Design

Creating and approaching the future you want

Let us approach your desired future with contemporary means from social-systemic organisational development and complexity research.

Predictions: a guarantee for a mess of unsustainable results

The least effective one can do is to waste time planning forward for an unknown infinite future. It is by far more effective to focus on the present, dissolving its mess and creating the future you want.

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Dissolving Future Mess

To overcome complex problems and disruptive challenges, we cannot rely solely on incremental improvements and adjustments within the same paradigms that got us into trouble. Simply put, we cannot pull ourselves out of the mess by making improvements, we need a fundamentally different approach.

Moving beyond current paradigms, future re:design is a purposeful decision commiting to foster more resilience, adaptability, and development for sustainable long-term success by adressing the system(s) leading us into the mess.

We provide means and practices that enable such re:design by reorganising the indeterminate in your communication systems, structures and processes, leading to a more inclusive, functional and co-creative environment approaching a more desirable future.

Re:designing your communication organisation

It is impossible for us not to communicate.

Every gesture, facial expression, noise, sound … all of them are symbols, datapoints and part of an overarching communication system in which the system itself decides how to use this information, how it selects it and how it informs itself.

Whenever individuals engage in conversations, the space metaphorically encapsulates a microcosm of societal norms, personal beliefs and cultural preferences.

However, not every act of communication is universally accepted or influences its direction. Similarly, not every perspective shared holds significance for further discussions. Even an absent member may influence the dynamics of the room significantly, their opinions echoing as if they were present.

The question is: how functional and effective is your communication organisation regarding its direction, objectives and long-term development?

Re:designing your communication organisation

To re:orientate your communication organisation effectively, we first need to grasp communication as a complex living and decision-making system of triple selective FORMs

With that in mind, we can observe its focus, emulate its direction, and conclude on matching interventions to re:orientate the system where we want it to be. Do you want to know where your system is heading towards?

With that in mind, we can observe its focus, emulate its direction, and conclude on matching interventions to re:orientate the system where we want it to be. Do you want to know where your system is heading towards?

The Formwelten Institute and its more than 30 years of research are unique for their cutting-edge communication and AI technologies and extraordinary systemic training for next-gen leadership.

Formwelt starts there, brings together and goes beyond what outstanding people like Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russel, Allan Turing, Karl Popper, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, Robert Axelrod, Norbert Wiener, Heinz von Foerster, Humberto Maturana, Niklas Luhman and many others have embarked on.

Systemic Communication

Complexity Management

Complexity Designer

“Normal” is a term from industrialisation. You can use it to make screws and lay railway tracks but not to master the complex challenges of tomorrow’s innovative organisation.

What you realy need today are autodidacts, polymaths, neo-generalists, complexity masters, and scientific-systemic thinkers. You need people who can think and act their way into things in a contemporary way.

You need the meta-perspective that only comes from comprehensive systemic education and with many years of practical experience.

Re:designing your present

The ultimate end of development is omnicompetence.

And like omnicompetence, any ideal is an unattainable goal one can endlessly approach. Hence, it’s a satisfying direction that helps to serve one’s own legitimate needs and desires and those of others.

However, if you do not know how you want things to be in the present, what obscure idea is it to envision any far future?

Even worse, the time spent planning for an infinite and detailed unpredictable future is time gone that else could be more effectively spent in the creative process of dissolving the present mess and thus enabling the future you want.

And that is what re:designing the present is all about—enabling and approaching a desired future by expanding the space of possibilities and dissolving today’s complex problems and challenges.

Re:designing your present

Synthesize

We analyse and synthesise your environment(s) to look for the leverage points that, if not addressed, will inevitably lead to disaster.

Idealize

We accompany and support you in the creative idealisation process with which you will dissolve today’s mess to enable the future you desire.

Realize

We provide iterative means supporting you in approaching your re:designed present and allowing you to emerge a future fit learning organisation.

My approach to enable the emergence of the future we want by re:designing our present builds up, brings together and goes beyond what outstanding people like Wojciech Jastrzębowski, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Edgar Arthur Singer, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Edwards Deming, Charles West Churchman, Taiichi Ohno, Stafford Beer, Russell Lincoln Ackoff, Peter Senge, Gitta and Ralf Peyn, and many other have embarked on.

Scientific Thinking Coach

Lean Specialist

Advanced Quality Planning

There is no better way to dissolve today’s problems and tomorrow’s crises than by re:designing our present and, from here, inventing ways to approach this design as closely as possible.

We often overlook that most of the obstacles we face only appear to be externally driven. Often, all it takes is a shift of perspective to realise that our greatest enemy to enable the future we desire is in us.

A shift like that will help us identify and challenge self-imposed constraints and explore alternative ways to exceed the limits of what we previously thought was impossible.

Let us embrace science as a means of navigating through the barriers preventing us from gaining new insights and enabling innovative and problem-dissolving solutions for a sustainable future.

Learning Partnership

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

However, in an intertwined complex world, this is nothing one can accomplish alone, nor does it provide enough enjoyment in the creative struggle available in our limited lifetime.

Creating long-term added value as a team is both more accessible and more enjoyable.

My learning partnership aims at teams, institutes, companies and other organisations that want to make a difference for society—those committed to social, economic and sustainable long-term development.

Making a difference starts by doing things different from what the average masses do, as we cannot expect anything new from the masses.

Are you ready to make such a difference?

Learning Partnership

Fresh perspectives

Get new, inspiring ideas, insights and viewpoints that enrich and expand your reflection skills and way of thinking.

Increased adaptability

Develop a more resilient business in a fast-changing, dynamic environment

Better decision making

Improve decision-making through more functional communication, discourse and consent techniques.

Improved leadership capabilities

Develop world-class, next-generation scientific coaching skills through collaborative learning.

Increased employee satisfaction

Create a fulfilling and supportive learning environment that fosters a self-learning company culture.

Expand your network

Unlock new opportunities through access to an expanded, diversified network of world-class international experts.

System thinking capabilities

Recognise and understand the interactions within your organisation and the world around you to make more effective decisions.

Practical scientific thinking

Develop excellent skills for a results-orientated approach that drives continuous improvement and innovation.

Increased productivity

Increase productivity through more effective collaboration, continuous learning and improvement of vital business processes.

Discovery Call

Book a discovery call and schedule your preferred date and time. Choose between a Zoom meeting or a callback. I look forward to talking to you.

“Normal” is a term from industrialisation. You can use it to make screws and lay railway tracks but not to master the complex challenges of tomorrow’s innovative organisation.

What you realy need today are autodidacts, polymaths, neo-generalists, complexity masters, and scientific-systemic thinkers. You need people who can think and act their way into things in a contemporary way.

You need the meta-perspective that only comes from comprehensive systemic education and with many years of practical experience.