Experiential Growth Method
Chapter 3 - Experiential Growth Method®
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Welcome to the Experiential Growth Method® page
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Experiential Growth Method®
- Experiential: enhance the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgments.
- Growth: business practice has always been divided between thinking and doing, emphasising one over the other. However, we believe in the advantages of thinking about the next step to take.
- Method: because “Nothing is as practical as a good theory,” and “the best way to understand something is to try to change it” (credited to Kurt Lewin - Greenwood & Levin, 1998).
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The Experiential Growth Method® is not a rigid structure. On the contrary, it's designed to be a practical tool that helps you identify relationships, discern systems, and effectively manage real flows.
The core question we want to help you with the Experiential Growth Method® is: How can you act today to have the best chance that your practices of tomorrow are sustainable?
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The Experiential Growth Method® in plain words:
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Growth in the Experiential Growth Method® is not so much an economic as an anthropological concept.
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Why a method?
| Toon Hermans, a famous Dutch comedian, once said: "I can only start improvising if my text is entirely written". |
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By analogy, the Experiential Growth Method® provides a fully documented framework of your company as a scaffold on which you can start with your strategic business value realisation.
Business practice has always been divided between thinking and doing, emphasising one over the other. For us, business practice is a verb connecting both, summed up in a single sentence:
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The Experiential Growth Method® is easy:
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How does the Experiential Growth Method® support you?
The Experiential Growth Method® provides you with insights into three distinct steps:
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- First, principles that steer the interests you have.
- We co-create the basic principles for growth: long-term thinking, ethical decision-making and innovative- and sustainable business model creation in the spirit of the Environmental, Social and Governance goals.
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- Second, patterns that arise in your enterprise from the values you hold.
- We provide knowledge about the patterns in your enterprise, which are the result of your practices. We make relational thinking for you more accessible, to make clear to you what you cannot see but can experience. EGM® offers you insight into the structure – the scaffolding – on which your relational business system thrives.
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- Third, human-based processes you create from the goals you have.
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| Even in strategy, we must look for principle-based models that are empirically adequate. |
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Deep dive
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Patterns: created by 27 action fields
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The primary image of the Experiential Growth Method® is a scaffold of your enterprise. It is what you see and what you experiences.
Your enterprise IS the relationships between its core elements.
The Experiential Growth Method® defines 27 action fields for your enterprise and draws the relationship we experience as patterns between them.
They are the building blocks for implementing your:
- Corporate futuring,
- Organisational futuring
- and Leading into the future,
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Principles: how to think about growth
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When we act, the present situation confines us. Therefore, we must tend to the relationships between ideas, people, teams, departments or worldviews and bridge across contexts.
We are convinced that we must work here and now with the future in mind.
Therefore, we need expert knowledge, even if it is stationary in an evolving world and subject to progressive insight.
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Processes, who are - by definition - human-based
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The purpose of your business is to provide a valuable product or service to your customers. Therefore, your core two-step business process is your offering, and your customer receiving it.
Take one step back. What do you have to do to realise your customer's request? Take another step back. What were you supposed to do at that moment?
Go back step by step. You cannot realise the next step without the current one. Knowing the previous:
The only purpose of the current process step is the success of the next step.
Humans are great at creativity, analysing, decision making and action. These are the four essential elements of every process. There is a saying: ”All business is people's business”.
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