Understanding the networks you're in and the impact, you experience, you have
'Novum Ventus'
"Novum Ventus" is Latin and can be translated as "new wind" or "new breeze." Metaphorically, it represents change, innovation and a fresh start, as wind often symbolizes movement or transformation in many cultures.
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Noventus helps organisations that want to tackle wicked challenges like climate impact and societal change. We support through sensemaking, structuring and process management.
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Impact follows from collaboration across boundaries, organisational boundaries, national and international boundaries and cross-domain boundaries. Only by connecting different disciplines and backgrounds, real change is made.
We're all part of an ecosystem ...all interconnected
"One can never understand the trees without understanding the mushrooms"
A tree can only exist because of its relation with fungus. By opening up and allowing fungi to reach inside its roots, a tree is able to engage in an exchange ritual, trading sugars for nutrients.
The same goes for humans and organisations. There are countless exchanges and interactions going. But, as with the trees, these interactions, while paramount for the survival, are sometimes difficult to see and understand.
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Noventus is research, using the best available tools to provide insights. These tools offer insights on how the surrounding environment interacts with an entity like an organisation, a challenge or an institution.
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Tools like SNA (Social Network Analysis), organisational science, Resource dependency theory, ... are applied to determine the most dominant connections.
Banana trees don't grow on snow capped mountains
"Thinking you can outsmart your environment is, in the long run, a pretty reliable illusion..."
In the long run, it's nearly impossible to thrive in an environment that doesn't support you. That's common wisdom in plants, but not so in humans.
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For humans and organisations, the lack of a supporting environment that offers all the nutrients (i.e. resources like knowledge, people, raw materials, ...) is very limiting for growth and prosperity. At first, it's just expensive to overreach for the much needed input, in the long run it's almost always lethal.
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Noventus provides insights on the needs and the availability of resources. But there's more: Based on the understanding of the network and ecosystem surrounding organisations, an action plan and approach offers a way forward.
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